DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: (LSU)

Instapundit ^ | 10/19/2017 | Ed Driscoll

[RightGeek]

Shot: Louisiana State University builds $85 million recreation complex including a giant “lazy river” concrete swimming pool meets aqua maze.

Chaser: The best of times, the worst of times: Inside LSU’s Middleton Library and the Cox Center. Extensive photos illustrate how the library is crumbling with extensive flooding damage while the Cox Communications Academic Center for Student-Athletes is gleaming, spotless, and modern.

[RightGeek]

The people running American universities are not serious people. And they think the taxpayers are suckers. Just say "university" and the marks will open their wallets.

[txnativegop]

this is the reason that organized school sports should be destroyed. Have the parents handle the details of the various games.

Parents will quickly tire of it and the country will be far better off without tens of thousands of brain dead jocks running around.

(*donning flame-resistant suit*)

[Pearls Before Swine]

Priorities.

[Da Coyote]

No flame resistant suit required for me.
Agree.

[txnativegop]

Afraid you and I are small minority here on FR. LOL

[SES1066]

Afraid you and I are small minority here on FR. LOL

I think that we are the wave of the future. I am having a lot more time for long bicycle rides and other things. While I like College Football better than the post-Varsity, I mainly pay attention when it is Army-Navy! GO ARMY!

[elpadre]

How is LSU paying with that toy??

[Trumpet 1]

Gum that is older than the students?! Hello...has anyone heard of a janitor doing work while getting paid.?! And if I recall, isn’t every thing on the internet now-a-days?! Sorry, I do not share the horror. In that humidity there is a constant need for new plaster. The library should get a touch up job every summer and if the gum is not cleaned up on a regular basis then the janitors should be sent to the State Senate to explain to the politicians about how difficult it is to do the work of a 3rd grader.

[Uncle Sham]

Might be that the Tiger habitat and the Cox center were funded without using university money. Perhaps someone can chime in.

[txnativegop]

Pretty sure they were given that the buildings have a family name on them.

big time donors.

[Uncle Sham]

If that is the case, then having a big-time athletic program might be a good thing. It apparently keeps people who might not otherwise become involved with the university invested with the success of the university. Of coarse, this only works if the athletic program is turning a profit rather than a net loss for the university.

[txnativegop]

or those families who donate that kind of money are simply looking for a public legacy of "caring" or some other liberal tripe. Regardless, sports should be at the very bottom of priorities for an Educational institution.