User profile: orientalobserver

No way, NIMBY. Let's have the uninsured ill people wander around aimlessly, at random in ALL neighborhoods, spreading even greater misery but in an even-handed manner. Let the poor sick people pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, just like we did. What? They don't got boots, either?

Please remember that Nevada State College is new and growing, and just opened its first building, devoted to liberal arts and sciences. NSC fills the gap between the huge bloated level I research university (UNLV) and the huge bloated wannabe a real college (CCSN)by offering real bachelor's degrees, especially in the medical-related fields that our aging population will need.

The 18% cut proposal would disproportionately and adversely affect the new Nevada State College. As a new school, only six years old, it has been creating the infrastructure (e.g. its first building, the liberal arts and science building, only opened seven months ago) that will last for decades, while the number of students has doubled from two years ago. NSC is not in the same position as the more stable, older, somewhat bloated UNLV, UNR, or Southern Nevada Community College (which itself is pretending to be a full scale university rather than a 25,000 student junior college). Nevada State College was established to fill the gap between the "tier 1" research university (UNLV) and the junior college, providing a real college level education particularly in the biological sciences because our aging population will need more trained employees with medical-related knowledge, skills, and abilities. We should not decimate Nevada State College, which is on the road to success. A "one size fits all" across the board percentage cut does not reflect the thoughtfulness we expect of our legislatures, its on the surface "fairness" is just a smokescreen for sound bite politicians. That's not what Nevadans need.

One particularly galling fact is that both Bybee and Yoo, tenured faculty members enjoying the greatest "freedom of speech," are remaining silent now. Their tenure, their universities, allow them to keep their jobs no matter how nonsensical or unethical their academic arguments. Yet they refuse to respond to rational arguments opposing the positions they took. "Academic freedom" for professors not only confers upon them the right to say what they think, it obligates them to do so. They should lose their tenured professorships for failing to live up to the high standard they have accepted.

If you didn't realize it, Asian cultures are very different from American cowboys and Latinos in a lot of ways. For example, what do you think the percentage is of Asian students at UNLV or NSC?