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13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - CU-Boulder students ra... · 0 replies · +2 points

You think we have the time or energy for that? Hell, I'd be elated if the majority of my undergraduate students were simply writing in complete sentences and not messing up fractions.

The eco-liberal doctrine is something with which we brain-wash graduate students along with the Stockholm Syndrome that keeps the students from leaving the program for better paying and more sensible jobs.

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Football: CU Buffs\' d... · 0 replies · +1 points

Is there a way for the CO legislature to increase the funding going to CU but mandate that it only go to the football team?

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Football: As expected,... · 0 replies · +4 points

You shouldn't worry so much: Nobody is serious about dissolving the football program.

It's a vital component of the University's operation to extract donations from alums who seemingly have forgotten that CU Boulder is anything other than a life-support system for a minor league football team. I personally hope that the Buffs win national titles regularly so that you guys will send in hundreds of millions of dollars of donations every year that they can use to lower tuition rates and otherwise improve their educational capacity.

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Football: As expected,... · 1 reply · +9 points

CU-Boulder's budget is 1.14 billion dollars a year. The total revenue from football and related operations comprises about 0.5% of that budget. Even more there are substantial costs in terms of salary, infrastructure and maintenance associated with this relatively paltry sum.

The real value of the football program is getting alums to donate cash to the University directly. There are far more alums living in CA than in all of the Big 12 territory put together and so we've reached out to the CA television market to hopefully reach into the pockets of alumni living there.

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Football: As expected,... · 2 replies · +4 points

Solving quadratic equations is part of the 8th grade math curriculum in Colorado. Did you even go to college?
http://curriculum.dpsk12.org/math_science/math/ms...

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Football: As expected,... · 0 replies · +14 points

I agree. It's time that CU finally spins off its education and research missions into a separate private entity to avoid polluting it's core mission of providing collegiate athletic entertainment.

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - CU-Boulder tries to br... · 0 replies · +8 points

If the state bothered funding CU at more than 4% of operating costs then likely the university wouldn't have to be begging for change like this. Arizona provides close to 3 times the state funding per student that we do. Arizona.

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - CU-Boulder aims to dou... · 0 replies · +7 points

CU receives next to nothing from the state (4%) and it's tuition is largely set by elected regents. No wonder it's been reduced to begging and trying to gouge students with fees.

Even AZ (a tight-fisted conservative state hit much harder by the 2007 recession than CO) funds it's universities to the tune of 2.5-3 times more funds per student. This is pathetic, CO should either fund CU properly or convert it to a private university.

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Manning, Broncos lose ... · 1 reply · +5 points

Kind of sad how the AP only reports on the performance of the QBs and completely ignores everything else on the field. While this game was marked by excellent QB play on both sides the difference was made by turn overs and our inability to stop the run.

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Does cutting taxes cre... · 1 reply · +3 points

Funny how it flattens out when Democrats are in office and grows precipitously when Republicans are in charge.

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