While driving too... Although, it's pretty dangerous.You can have sex while parking.
I'd go further. I'd make liberal arts majors ineligible for any federal student aid or subsidized loans, and boost the aid to STEM students.
I'd go further. I'd make liberal arts majors ineligible for any federal student aid or subsidized loans, and boost the aid to STEM students. If you want help from the government, do something that is useful to society and not likely to land you a job at Denny's you could handle as a high school dropout.
charteroak4life said:Genius. Perhaps we should round up all the non-STEM students, call Obama, have him punch them all in the stomach, and then tell them they're not getting a damn thing from the government? That'll show those non-STEM-ing, hedonistic, hippie bastards.
I'd go further. I'd make liberal arts majors ineligible for any federal student aid or subsidized loans, and boost the aid to STEM students. If you want help from the government, do something that is useful to society and not likely to land you a job at Denny's you could handle as a high school dropout.
I'm pretty appalled by the attitude of entitlement I've seen. It really does remind me of Mac & Cheese guy. If you are a college student, nobody owes you jack. You aren't entitled to be comfortable or for anything to be easy. Complaining about sensible town ordinances like those in most places and thinking Herbst should somehow do something about them...nuts.
That isn't really the point. I just don't understand how people go to college, incur all sorts of debt in majors that don't teach any marketable skills, and complain because they can't get jobs.
Find me an accounting major with a 3.8 that can't get a job. Good luck.
What do you expect? The kid thinks the residents should be grateful of UConn for all the great things it brings to town....while talking about how they take advantage of "lower" house prices.
As if falling house prices are a sign of a highly desirable neighborhood. It seems he graduated without grasping an understanding of the effect that demand has on prices.
JMick said:There are so many BS degree's that are considered "STEM" too, which is why your point was moot. Here's a recognized list of STEM degrees. 1/3 of them are no better than a History degree. I'd argue a History degree is more valuable than half of the degrees on this list. http://stemdegreelist.com/
Valuable to whom?
I'm not arguing for STEM for its own purposes. I'm just arguing for anyone that decides to borrow a ton of money to assess what they will do with their degree in order to get a reasonable ROI. And if someone blindly spends 100K to get a 2.2 in a major that employers don't care about somehow that's on someone else?
Lol. So I wasn't an RA for two years and watch dozens of students get drunk all the time and underperform and waste their parents' money and then complain about how unfair the world is. Ok. Not a straw man.
So you are arguing against making common sense investments in education? Yale offers teaching degrees also. If it makes sense to pay 50K a year so you can get a job with a starting salary of 35K good for you. But doesn't make sense to me. And sure as hell doesn't make me sympathetic when people complain about teacher salaries. Again, not a straw man. Real people.
You completely misconstrued my point.
My point was that people living right next to campus bought a house at a lower price due to the fact that it's right next to a major university. Now these people complain about students being around. They want to have their cake and eat it too.
A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument which was not advanced by that opponent.
You obviously don't understand renters rights and you don't realize that owners of rental properties hate the town.
Someday you'll understand why towns hate the owners of rental properties.
Those entitled baby boomers and NIMBYs subsidized your education at UConn. They helped pay for UConn 2000, the $2+ BILLION investment by the state, regardless of whether or not they supported the push to grow UConn.
You're either a troll, really good at sarcasm, or one of the biggest, hypocritical, entitled brats I've ever come across.
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Your beef is misplaced. Her role is much greater than "daily student needs". She's trying to overcome a $40 million dollar deficit. I imagine one of the daily student needs is to not see their tuition raised even more. (And, relatively speaking, UConn does not cost an "exorbitant" amount of money. It's a steal).
This was not a former president, it was an underling.
And the quote is a successful university "has sex for the students, sports for the alumni and parking for the staff."
Circa 1987, John Casteen was the UConn president and Burger King was running a promotion/commercial "Where's Herb" campaign. If you found Herb at your local Burger King, you would win cash. I know exactly where Herb was hiding out, he was hiding out in Storrs.