Posted on 10/15/2019 8:46:43 AM PDT by C19fan
The “lazy river” at Louisiana State University is often held up as an example of wasteful non-academic university spending, a frivolity intended to attract students who aren’t the studying type or who simply pay higher tuition.
But it’s also siphoning away money from core academic maintenance, as suggested by a CBS News report on how universities use “lavish perks” to entice students.
When “CBS This Morning” co-host Tony Dokoupil visited the taxpayer-funded university, he noted some of the library building “was literally falling apart,” plus water in the basement and “rugs from another generation.”
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I think I remember a story about Mizzou having a entire water park on campus.
Football locker room remodels usually come out of television money and alumni donations, not university general funds.
However, at my campus they have sushi bars in the dorm cafeterias, and that DOES come out of the student's meal plan payments.
I'd venture a guess that LSU's Lazy River was paid for out of housing revenue, not general funds, and as such couldn't have been used for library renovations in any case.
Jeezzz..I remember when I went to school in the mid-80s it was mystery meat Mondays and I went to an expensive private school.
The problem with money at LSU - and every other higher education entity in the state of Louisiana, and also every primary and secondary school here - is the deadhead administrator payroll. That’s where most of the money goes.
I know. I’ve lived here all my life and seen it up close and personal.
Seems like some journalist may have skimped on their geographical education spending, last time I drove to Los Angeles I only had to cross county lines not state.
Is anyone really surprised? Colleges have been turning into a money pit for students and more of fun and indoctrination centers. So many 'students' use their outrageous student loans to fund parties, trips and toys instead of a foundation for the future and then bitch, moan and cry that they can't get a decent job with their degree in minority studies, Gaia worship or a Masters in masturbation and want the taxpayer to bail them out of their stupidity.
Ok, lets right-set here for a moment. College Library’s are no longer needed. They are just study halls. They are lined with books that nobody ever reads. Students go to library’s for social time or study time. And often its a little of both. A 4 story library often has floors with different quiet rules. Often the top floor is total quiet and the main floor is total party.
Secondly, library’s or any college buildings degrade over time until funding has been acquired for the new building. The old building needs to look ruff to demonstrate need. Then they find a sucker who’s name shows up on the new library, often a widow or a guy who wants his screw up son to get in to the college.
In the tradition of its’ greatest ever benefactor, The Kingfish.
I went to school in the very early 1980s, and the big thing then was “healthy salad bars” in the cafs.
Dead wrong.
They are lined with books that only serious students read.
Not only is everything not on the net, contrary to widespread assertions internet information isnt anything close to “forever” - its “until the servers need upgrading”.
The degree to which the campus library is used is a direct, accurate, and visible corollary to how much serious study is going on.
A lazy river, if they put on at UConn, they’d have the taxpayers to fleece...
Texas Tech, where my daughter goes, has the largest “Lazy River” of any school.
and if they didn’t take care of the river, the left and CBS would be screaming about it
Baby boomers were a spoiled generation and their children even worse. No draft no requirement for military or national service. And we are surprised...
My son’s school didn’t have dorms or cafeteria. Wanna eat? Make it yourself. The apartments were so old his roommate put his foot through the bathroom floor.
They just built new apartment building. Very modest.
Library’s are warehouses for out of print books and papers. They should toss the books into Yucca mountain for people to find 100,000 years from now. Students only use the stacks to hide from prying eyes.
And This is what these rec centers, dining halls, and other over the top amenities are all about....attracting students who have approx. $8k/year in federal loan dollars to spend.
“Baby boomers were a spoiled generation and their children even worse. No draft no requirement for military or national service. And we are surprised...”
Male boomers born between 1946 and 1954 (all 15 million of us) were subject to the military draft. I was born in the middle of this group; I still have my old draft cards somewhere in the house. About a dozen of my friends served in Vietnam, and three of them died there.
And out of print books are repositories of accurate knowledge about people, events and places of the past.
With zero exceptions (including you) the desire to get rid of them stems from people who desire to be unchallenged as to things they make up.
You have pretty much revealed who you are and what drives you.
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