Jim Rogers has absolutely RUINED Nevada Higher Education. His endearment and employment of the disgraced CSN ex-President Richard Carpenter, this fact alone, is overwhelmingly adequate for Jim Rogers to resign in shame, not to mention Jim Rogers' other radical behaviors.

With NSHE in moral sewers and budget crunch, Rogers has the nerve to continue hassling Gibbons. Send Jim Rogers to prison, alongside with Bob Gilbert, Richard Carpenter, Patty Charlton and Mike Richards where they all belong!!!!!

Nowadays Las Vegas people are bombarded by CSN's TV ads, which are just a few less than those of RC Willey's. I thought so we were really working on getting more students now with the economy bad and people coming back to school. If CSN will cancel half of the 4000 classes it offers after it advertises so hard for even after students have signed up, then please answer the question: Why are there so very many ads on Las Vegas TV? What is CSN advertising for? Money to burn?

I have heard comments about people are sick of the CSN ads, and didn't understand why a community college can advertise that much. CSN administrators, in their infinite wisdom, decide to advertise to no end, then cancel classes. It's not like the public has not had any "trust" issue with CSN! On the contrary, the public are rightfully wary with so many scandals at CSN.

Even if the public try hard to learn to trust again, CSN will no doubt disappoint them, again! It's just not funny anymore how CSN administration could have conducted business this way. 6% cut from Mike Richards down, and stop at the Department Chairs will be a good indication for the poor performances of the CSN administrators!

I am a CSN faculty member, and have known many people by being there for a long time. On behalf of all the CSN employees that I know, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you Las Vegas Sun, for your strong support of your very tenacious reporter, Christina Littlefield, who was stonewalled and smeared by the CSN administration but persisted on digging. Without your unwavering support, today we would not have had a Pulitzer Prize winner candidate from your prestigious paper. The honor and glory belong to both Christina Littlefield, and the fertile environment you have provided at the Las Vegas Sun for true journalism to blossom.

For years Bob Gilbert had been witnessed stealing from CSN. The fabricated time cards, the student workers and the IT employees working on his house all during working hours, and truck load of materials shipped to his mansion, just to name a few that were already being widely witnessed. It took a Christina Littlefield and your newspaper, to actually put a stop to it. The crooks were actually slapped in their faces with this AG's indictment! You will never understand the degree of all of our appreciation. You have helped Nevadans save millions by stopping the stealing now, and endless amount of money for many years to come if Bob Gilbert continued getting away. You are truly the Nevadans' tribune. We, at CSN, and in Nevada, salute Christina Littlefield and the Las Vegas Sun! A million thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

The NSHE Chancellor Jim Rogers, CSN president Mike Richards, and CSN VP of Finance Patty Charlton Dayar must step down for their at a minimum incompetency and mismanagment. Shame on them. Resign!

I would just like to inform the general public that not only in this thread of comments, but also in Taz's blog, the CSN administrators have been repeatedly educated that a blog belongs to the Blogger, in this case it's Taz, who has the absolute right to decide which comment shows up in her blog, and which one doesn't.

The CSN administration has been called incompetent for the past 4 years. Does it really need to demonstrate how stupid they really are by not being able to understand that concept?

Since the CSN administration is so SUE-HAPPY (evidence from their more than 200 comments in the previous blog to threaten their bogus lawsuit, "CSN vs. the bloggers", while claiming "inexhaustable legal funds"), please go ahead and sue GOOGLE. GOOGLE set up its blogs with the comment moderation feature, to prevent spam commentors like the CSN administration. Taz didn't turn on the commente moderation, until the repeated hate-filled, same wording, big spaced messages flooded the blog, and claimed "We have destroyed this blog!"

Since this blog is where we vent against the CSN administration's wrongdoing, those systematic flooding of messages, to block viewers from comfortably reading other messages, are not from someone working in a casino kitchen.

Google's comment moderation feature has been rightfully activated by Taz, and she was thanked by all of us.

CSN administrators, you have problem with that feature, go ahead and sue Google, make yourself INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN. You obviously had not learned the right lesson from your blocking the blog last year. You are the best demonstrators of our firm belief that you are INCOMPETENT!

cluless posted this in the blog:

The perception of college teachers as finicky and peculiar seems to come across here all too well. Ms. Hsu missed the whole point about the blog being a place to vent and vet on the management style of the former president and the leadership provided by the Chancellor and his finicky political board.

Much of what the Carp did was reprehensible and unprofessional within the academic community but well tolerated by the business sector and public-at-large. We are in two different worlds it seems and they are drifting farther apart because one simply does not understand the other.

Colleges have had historical traditions in selecting presidents, deans, faculty, etc. and the report seems to take it all as poppycock lite. The press simply does not know and does not care. That is a major change in the field of current journalism which has transitioned from a profession to a job with little need for skills related to inquiry, ethics or truth. That's one of many reasons that newspapers are heading toward extinction while other venues such as this one provide alternative approaches to understanding some of the nuances that are permitted to happen in collegiate environs.

Of course, the growing amount of jocularity, poetry and vapid imnuendo do not help to sustain or develop a more polished view and professional perdspective as one might expect from collegiate-type personnel. After all, colleges are not tech schools.

I suppose printed newspapers and multipurpose colleges are both heading toward extinction for reasons quite obvious to the untrained eye. It's all happening here as a live case study.

Vahana wrote in the blog:

Part II

[D]onnadvise wrote: "CSN is a publicly owned asset of the state of Nevada. The administration of CSN is an integral part of CSN. Attempted destruction of the administration would lead to destruction of the property of the citizens of the state of Nevada." The syllogism comprised by these three sentences demonstrates faulty logic since the first two do not prove how "destruction of the administration would lead to destruction of [CSN] property." Administrators come, administrators go, and this college sails on. The only destruction of CSN property I've seen has been caused by CSN administrators, such as Bob Gilbert allegedly siphoning off CSN labor and materials for his personal use (so, I guess as Nevada taxpayers, we would have time-share rights to his Kyle Canyon ranch if this allegation were proved in court). Of course, the real destruction to NV taxpayer property being held in trust by CSN is now being perpetrated by Governor Gibbons and his rigid, pinheaded clinging to his "no new taxes" pledge. Adhering to principle, he will sink the ship of higher education, and then not even CSN administrators will have jobs and "donnadvise" will not have this ambulance to chase.

[By the way, dear RJ forum moderator, doesn't your comments policy prohibit using this space to solicit business? Since "donnadvise" isn't advertising his/her services as pro bono, one is entitled to assume that his/her two postings constitute free advertisements leading to personal gain. Should they not then be removed per your policy?]

Finally, donnadvise wrote: "The appeal will also present evidence that the blog author(s) invited use of threats of violence against targeted employees or employees’ families." Again, this point shows ignorance of established First Amendment precedent. Neither blog "invited" so-called "threats" and any so-called "threats" that appeared were not "credible" in terms defined by such precedent.

Of course, it's far easier for taxpayers to get exercised by this blog than by the budget cuts for which we all bear responsibility if we do not see that state government's current revenue stream is insufficient to meet OUR needs. One frustrated academic's blog is only a red herring that seems to be diverting us from discussing this far more vital and pressing issue.

Vahana wrote in the blog:

Part I:

Let's not waste scant taxpayer resources launching a formal investigation of Rosenthal's blog. Contrary to donnadvise's reading of the situation, there is nothing in either the old or new "Carpenter Watch" blogs that rises to the level of unprotected, and therefore actionable, speech. Point by point, donnadvise's claims fall apart, as follows:

[D]onnadvise wrote: "The intent of the blog content will be shown to have the objective of enticing someone to file a complaint or charges and invite participation by the AG and officials of the NSHE Code System....Additionally, the appeal will attempt to show that blog author(s) have committed willful incitement of persons to commit acts prohibited under the NSHE code and Nevada Revised Statutes." In reality, Nevada law and NSHE Code still give state and university employees whistleblower protections, and the AG is quite capable of sifting any unfounded malicious allegations from true and verifiable complaints of malfeasance by CSN administrators. General statements in the blog, as in "someone ought to do something," do not constitute verifiable incitement under First Amendment law.

[D]onnadvise wrote: "Blog content has damaged CSN, NSHE, and several NSHE employees." This statement, given without supporting evidence, is an unfounded allegation offered with the apparent intent to smear the administrator(s) and author(s) of the CSN Richard Carpenter Watch blog. To claim without evidence is logical fallacy, and thoughtful readers do not allow themselves to be swayed by such tactics.

Professor Sherry Rosenthal is absolutely everyone's hero at CSN. I have not met one person that's not raving about her for her courage and insight. I have no doubt of her truthfulness that she said she would do it with or without tenure. This has nothing to do with her earned status of being a tenured professor, and everything to do with her integrity. I have been awed by her insight and courage. To me and everyone I know at CSN, Professor Rosenthal speaks OUR mind and has completely earned our respect.

Richard Carpenter and his sycophants slashed and burned CSN for 3 years almost to a point of no return. Valuable employees were fired for Carpenter's financial gains. Yet Carpenter stood by Bob Gilbert with the Nevada AG's first raid of any NSHE institution. Why such differential treatments between the employees that have devoted their lives to our beloved college, and the unscrupulous construction chief that got Carpenter a $50k raise?

SUN has documented Richard Carpenter's wrongdoing very well. Were those reports Christina Littlefield's imaginations? Don't think so. The University of Cambridge admitted Christina Littlefield for her excellence in journalism, not imagination, I would venture to guess not.

For Professor Rosenthal to stand up to the CSN's cheating, lying, and stealing administration, and tell like it is, she has done the job for ALL OF US at CSN. For those administrator wannabes at the Faculty Senate, they have sold out faculty over the years, and not to be trusted. For someone like "hanzucker", who viciously attack Professor Rosenthal and her good education, income, and social status, there is no other conclusion but must be a CSN administrator who wants to silence Professor Rosenthal and her blog. Why? Too close for comfort?

Thank you sgold7211, your opinion is shared by everyone I know at CSN. We have all lived through the annihilation caused by Richard Carpenter, and his leftover cronies. This administration's days are numbered with their wrongdoing. I don't care if a SUN journalist tries to help promote this administration, against a jouralist's conscience.

I am calling on Jim Rogers' resignation as well. Hiring Richard Carpenter and allowing Carpenter's wreaking havoc at CSN was enough for all to know Jim Rogers' judgement. Yet, after Richard Carpenter, the fix was in for Mike Richards, whose qualifications are way inferior to other candidates, especially the two other finalists Dr. Glandon and Dr. Spraggs. Rogers and Regents have been in hot water about the sham presidential search, now he is withholding sandwiches from people to get what he wants?

When will Jim Rogers stop bullying people? Time for him to step down. With all the special treatment he showered at Richard Carpenter, maybe Richard Carpenter can take him in to Texas as the famous "returning the favor" in Mike Richards' acceptance speech that mysteriously disappeared from the CSN Web site after people ponting out that Richards were openly acknowledging the cronyism and promising to pay back.