tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post8279645485152546175..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-5949212097734439502015-10-28T10:19:35.576-05:002015-10-28T10:19:35.576-05:00Lol boorish, that&#39;s it!Joshhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttT6FrMosBknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-5998091159144741722015-10-28T09:49:06.253-05:002015-10-28T09:49:06.253-05:00Ahh all the glitters attracts our attention: Ho&#39;s, pimps and sports. <br /><br />I read an interesting article about Higher Education recently by Paul Buchheit. Highlights below: He said, Since 1862 public colleges had been expected to serve primarily as a means for the American people to achieve an inexpensive college education, and to benefit from academic research. The 1980 Bayh-Dole Act changed it all. It freed public universities from releasing new research discoveries to the public, allowing them instead to patent the results and make licensing deals with private companies. <br /><br />Tuition has increased by over 1,000 percent since 1978 as revenue-deprived states have slashed higher education funding. The Consumer Price Index, according to The Economist, went from 100 to 400 since 1978, while tuition went from 100 to 1200. <br /><br />According to a 2013 University of Pennsylvania study, Black men were less than 3% of full-time undergrad students from 2007 to 2010, but made up 57% of football teams and 64% of basketball teams. A University of Washington Law Review had concluded a few years earlier that the athlete-university relationship is &quot;not primarily academic, but is, instead, undeniably commercial.&quot; <br /><br />Meanwhile the big universities rake in the money, largely tax-free, from broadcast rights, luxury suites, seat donations, and advertising, and even more money from taxpayers in the form of stadium subsidies. All the hundreds of millions of dollars have allowed universities to increase head football coach salaries at a rate 20 times that of college professors. &lt;&lt;&lt;<br />==================================================<br /><br />Bottom line the Professional Sports complex uses the Colleges and Universities as farm teams. Probably will not be any best selling books written about the Corporatization of Higher Education. Floggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10383015097067413086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-6426328102644471882015-10-28T08:53:55.004-05:002015-10-28T08:53:55.004-05:00<br /><i>&quot;There seems to be this boorish desire to burn her at the stake,&quot; her attorney Wilder said.&quot;</i><br /><br />Wow. Could it be there is a &quot;boorish&quot; desire to see justice? And did not the defendant herself admit to her illegal behaviors???<br /><br />But she deserves immunity!?!... uh, not so much, Wilder. In fact, not at all.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com