Thursday, May 19, 2011
SUNO safe from merger with UNO — for now
Posted by Kandace Graves on Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:03 AM
Gov. Bobby Jindal’s push to merge Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) and University of New Orleans (UNO) on the UNO campus to save the state money and improve education for students of both colleges died in the House late Wednesday. House Speaker Jim Tucker, R-Algiers, said he withdrew House Bill 537 when he realized he didn’t have the 70 votes necessary to pass it in the House and send it to the Senate for consideration.
Jindal introduced the idea of a merger in January (see Clancy DuBos’ take on the idea here), and the idea drew immediate opposition from SUNO faculty, administration (see Southern University System President Ron Mason Jr.’s comments here) and students, who have staged several protests, as well as the legislative Black Caucus. In addition, both black and white lawmakers from districts outside of New Orleans expressed fear that merging UNO and SUNO would serve as a precedent to close or merge other small colleges around Louisiana.
Tucker says he still will push legislation to switch SUNO and UNO from the Louisiana State University system to the University of Louisiana system.
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Yeah, 'cause if you can't afford Princeton like Genocidal Jindal, obsessively compulsive about destroying DHH, food stamps (esp. for non-breeders), etc., then YOU DON'T DESERVE A COLLEGE EDUCATION **AT ALL,** RIGHT?
Biggest difference between LSU & UNO? LSU makes BILLIONS off of their sports franchises & pharmaceutical-testing near-monopoly, but fires professors for REQUIRED COURSES, especially if they teach "unnecessary" stuff like ENGLISH or COMPOSITION. When I transferred from LSU to UNO, y'know what *I* noticed? At UNO, I actually had to DO HOMEWORK. And girls who'd never been enrolled in the classes NEVER SHOWED UP TO TAKE THE TESTS FOR THE JOCKS WHO JUST "HAPPENED" TO NOT BE IN CLASS THAT DAY.
LSU is all about screwing working-class kids, passing lazy/coke-whore rich kids without the work or the grades, and making billions of dollars off of 'roided-up jocks and using the poor & homeless as guinea pigs.
UNO is far from perfect, very far, but it sure as hell beats that JOKE of a "university" that every redneck in Baton Redneck Republicunt Rouge buys-into, even though only 10% of 'em actually WENT TO *ANY* college.
And how is preserving SUNO supposed to mean that we're "stuck on stupid"? Because historically-black universities "aren't worth it"? Tell that to Hillman or Tuskeegee or Grambling. Oh, wait, Grambling's more profitable and surrounded by the CenLA crackers who helped get Piyush Jindal elected, so they wouldn't DARE touch Grambling. Southern turns out lawyers, engineers, scientists and educators every damned year, who take the jobs that lily-white crackers from LSU wouldn't DEIGN to do, with or without the clusterfluck that is the "Recovery School District."
I'll take one UNO or SUNO over a million LSUs. And anyone who believes that Piyush is gutting this state's universities to "help" or "save" them probably also believes that New Orleans is "better off" with white republicunt carpetbaggers and no Charity Hospital. "Kandace" up there pretty much made HER statement, and I'd wager that SHE didn't attend a Louisiana state university, either. Isn't it handy how we've been overrun by rich brats who went to private/parochial schools and out-of-state private universities (most likely NOT on scholarships, but thanks for that trust fund, daddy!), who think that THEY know "what's best" for THE REST OF US?
I bet that they know "Mein Kampf" by heart, cover to cover. Piyush's caste system marches on.
