[paulklenk]

A little amusement for you all, thanks to government education.

[Lancey Howard]

Bump

[wireplay]

Alpine is a piece of paradise. Beautiful, beautiful country. Everyone I met was great but I didn't spend as much time there as I desired. I have my own paradise now but for many years, Alpine was where I could have easily settled down.

A bear to get to though...

[AppauledAtAppeasementConservat]

"academic freedom to teach their students. I do not believe that you will find faculty at Sul Ross different in terms of the way they grade students from any other institution in the state. There are faculty who don't give finals; if they choose not to, that's their option."

Wow! Talk about being able to get paid for not doing any work! Boy that government teet must taste awfully nice to those Academiacs. It's time to start weening them off of it if you ask me.

[GeronL]

In this respect Texas is no different from any other state in the country

[lonewacko_dot_com]

Alpine is at the far end of nowhere. There's nothing south of it except ghost towns and Big Bend National Park. You need to drive 70 miles to the nearest larger city, Fort Stockton. All Fort Stockton has is a four-mile long business strip off 10 with a Dairy Queen, a Sonic, a McDonald's, a Wal*Mart, a bunch of cheap motels (the East Indian-owned ones on the east side aren't as bad as you might expect for the price), and a Chinese restaurant.

Alpine has a bunch of art galleries and it even has a WiFi hotspot at a trailer park. I was in the area for a few days, but I didn't think the people there were any dumber than people would be in such an environment. It's also near a university observatory, so people from a larger institution than Sul Ross are in the area.

Now, the people in Fort Ross...