1. Gov. Landry is slowly but surely accomplishing on the state level what Mr. Trump hopes to accomplish on the national level to enshrine the conservative agenda. I have to wonder if Mr. Trump admires or envies him. As to higher education in Louisiana, it has always placed power politics above everything else and apparently always will. If the polls are correct, most Louisianans support the policies of Mr. Trump and Gov. Landry.
2. Only V. P. Harris seems to dispute the projected increase in national debt (analysis of the deficit-reducing effect of her proposals) and she is also the only candidate who cares about it one way or another. The last time we had a balanced federal budget was during the Bill Clinton administration and nobody seemed to much care about it then either. As led by our elected officials, we continue to be among the most short-sighted of first world countries.
LSU will stay mired in the Confederacy until it publicly recognizes its first president William Tecumseh Sherman. When I was a grad student, his picture was not even publicly displayed. It was in the inner sanctum of one of the Boyd Halls.
Country advice: If Trump is for it, you had better be against it!
1. A university administrator lacking courage and doing it all for the money--who would have thought that? LOL.
2. Neither party cares about the debt or the spending limit unless the other party is in charge, and the Republicans are clearly more responsible for the debt due to their irresponsible tax cuts during the Reagan, Bush (W.) and Trump administrations, plus the war based upon lies about WMDs.
3. Given that LSU's African-American population is about half of the percentage African-Americans make up in the state's overall population, were the DEI programs every really implemented?
LSU is what it was once its Board of Supervisors exclude those pesky DEI policies from being implemented on its campuses. By voting to downgrade and/or eliminate these policies, the Board is voting to ‘go back’ to the way that LSU was as an institution historically. Those who favor its going back to that way ask…What’s wrong with that?!
I am wondering if I attended LSU during a rare period of inclusion (well, just a little). After David Duke, when the library didn’t leak, and no Tate. (Sigh)
One could assign the Landry quest for “purity of thought” as a fear of the unknown; rather, I think it is a Trump like cheap political ploy. The damage, whichever, will be profound, as our bright students will continue to flee and our flagship will continue to sink. At least we have a heck of a football coach and maybe even a tiger in the stadium.
Bob Mann, Liz Murrill finally published a what amounts to be a retraction of Landry’s abortion letter in 2022. Are you aware of it? (https://www.ag.state.la.us/Article/158). Forgive me for hijacking this comment to communicate with you.
1. Gov. Landry is slowly but surely accomplishing on the state level what Mr. Trump hopes to accomplish on the national level to enshrine the conservative agenda. I have to wonder if Mr. Trump admires or envies him. As to higher education in Louisiana, it has always placed power politics above everything else and apparently always will. If the polls are correct, most Louisianans support the policies of Mr. Trump and Gov. Landry.
2. Only V. P. Harris seems to dispute the projected increase in national debt (analysis of the deficit-reducing effect of her proposals) and she is also the only candidate who cares about it one way or another. The last time we had a balanced federal budget was during the Bill Clinton administration and nobody seemed to much care about it then either. As led by our elected officials, we continue to be among the most short-sighted of first world countries.
Tate’s reign at LSU has been one photo op after another, plus a 100% raise and a new Lakefront mansion.
LSU will stay mired in the Confederacy until it publicly recognizes its first president William Tecumseh Sherman. When I was a grad student, his picture was not even publicly displayed. It was in the inner sanctum of one of the Boyd Halls.
Country advice: If Trump is for it, you had better be against it!
1. A university administrator lacking courage and doing it all for the money--who would have thought that? LOL.
2. Neither party cares about the debt or the spending limit unless the other party is in charge, and the Republicans are clearly more responsible for the debt due to their irresponsible tax cuts during the Reagan, Bush (W.) and Trump administrations, plus the war based upon lies about WMDs.
3. Given that LSU's African-American population is about half of the percentage African-Americans make up in the state's overall population, were the DEI programs every really implemented?
LSU is what it was once its Board of Supervisors exclude those pesky DEI policies from being implemented on its campuses. By voting to downgrade and/or eliminate these policies, the Board is voting to ‘go back’ to the way that LSU was as an institution historically. Those who favor its going back to that way ask…What’s wrong with that?!
If Tate passed the Uncle Tom test just for the money, it is still passing the test.
I am wondering if I attended LSU during a rare period of inclusion (well, just a little). After David Duke, when the library didn’t leak, and no Tate. (Sigh)
Thank you for speaking the truth.
One could assign the Landry quest for “purity of thought” as a fear of the unknown; rather, I think it is a Trump like cheap political ploy. The damage, whichever, will be profound, as our bright students will continue to flee and our flagship will continue to sink. At least we have a heck of a football coach and maybe even a tiger in the stadium.
Bob Mann, Liz Murrill finally published a what amounts to be a retraction of Landry’s abortion letter in 2022. Are you aware of it? (https://www.ag.state.la.us/Article/158). Forgive me for hijacking this comment to communicate with you.
Thank you, John. I was not aware of this.