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“[A]t a time when the system is in fact so flush with funds that a new football stadium is being built in Fort Collins and a new campus is being established in Denver metro south…”

… it seems a little odd that Colorado State University is apparently about to impose extreme budget cuts.

A professor at CSU Pueblo sent out an email complaining about the cuts in colorful language (he called the chancellor a “hitman”) and promptly had his university email closed down (it has recently been restored). He probably faces other forms of punishment.

Go here for all the familiar stupid obscene reasons a school in CSU Pueblo’s position is part of a system building a new stadium (scroll down).

And when you’ve finished reading, wonder not at the rage that produced the “hitman” email.

Margaret Soltan, January 22, 2014 6:16AM
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2 Responses to ““[A]t a time when the system is in fact so flush with funds that a new football stadium is being built in Fort Collins and a new campus is being established in Denver metro south…””

  1. JND Says:

    Pigs.

  2. charlie Says:

    One of your referenced articles, specifically The Coloradan, is a hagiography of the CSU Athletic Director, Jack Graham. The piece goes on to mention that Graham is working closely with Pat Kilkenny, who was the AD at Oregon, when the school built the most expensive basketball arena in America. The writer extols Graham/Kilkenny’s devotion to a corporate mindset, a hard nose business approach to running an athletic department, and bringing that sentiment to university administration.

    To begin with, the Coloradan journalist needs to get some facts straight. He claims that Kilkenny, who doesn’t have a degree, nor any background in academics, persuaded Phil Knight to donate $100 million for the Oregon arena. Sources here in Oregon stated that the amount was $30 million, that the public has to finance approximately $200 million for the building. And Kilkenny persuaded no one, that’s complete bullshit. Knight demanded that Bill Moos, the prior Oregon AD, be fired prior to his donation. Moos didn’t want the debt nor the building, citing the fact that there was no justification paying nearly $250 million for a warehouse that was empty nearly 90% of the time. Kilkenny was the Phil Knight lapdog, doing what his master wanted him to do.

    And as for hard nosed business sense as the excuse for getting this white elephant built, well, if you call lying about its economic efficacy, paying a consultant to publish a bogus report claiming that the arena would become an economic boon to the area, well, then yeah, that’s pretty hard core corporate policy. Because the truth is, that the Matt Knight basketball arena has been a disaster. Students don’t show up, none of the promised conventions or concerts have appeared, as if anyone wants to show up to Eugene OR during rainy season, even the ballyhooed Cirque du Soleil fled midway through a week long run, due to the fact that Oregon is stone broke, and hardly anyone is capable of paying the fare to see people dangling from ceilings.

    That’s what it’s come to, that the lies and deceit has to become so oppressively loud, that it drowns out reason and common sense. If CSU is going to use U of Oregon’s athletic business model, then nonexistent supreme being help them…

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