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Mike: Answer the question,if you can, that the Sun and RJ refuse to answer or comment on: Why has the local press hidden from the story of Penn State and a child sexual abuse scandal? For what reason has the local press been so silent on this stunning and shocking news of a national university with a great reputation? Why? This story has been all over the national news but very, very little about it in the two local papers. Why? I am sure other communities with a local university or college wonders about its own moral an ethical integrity in sports. The NCAA certainly does; The Federal Government certainly does. But no one in Las Vegas does? Realy, Mike...think about it a bit. Then, answer the question!Thanks for at least making a comment on my statement. At least one person in Las Vegas is awake this morning!!!!!

It amazes me that the national sports story of the year, the Penn State scandal, has been silenced and is non existent for readers of the RJ and the LV Sun. Why? Who put the curb on this national story locally? There is no bigger story in sports than this scandal to date yet it has barely been presented by these papers. If it were not for TV sports no one in this community would have known that it occurred in the first place. Why the silence? Why th coverup? This is beginning to smell in and of itself...something is not right... Who is afraid of what as far as a
possible local UNLV sports scandal?Is there something suspicious or fishy going on the Maryland Parkway campus this is being hiddenf rom the public? Hmmm? Makes people wonder doesn't it?

The state of Nevada can't afford the universities and colleges it now has in operation so how is it going to afford a medical school? We have a half baked dental school and law school which are about as promising of full success as a dog house without a roof. The Sandoval regime has cut to the bare bone funding of K-12 schools as well as our local higher education institutions. Let's get real about a full blown medical school. Nice idea, but in Nevada it will never fly. This state can't afford to hire the best teachers and professors, only high paid and rewarded coaches. Dumb idea, waste of time, it is time to move on to another subject!

The events of recent days at Penn State are not totally unlike UNLV's moral and ethical lapses involving the academic quality and eligibility of UNLV athletes in past decades. Recruiting of players who were questionable as academically prepared for college level course work was just as morally and ethically wrong. In those days basketball and other athletes where promoted by coaches as 'scholar athletes' when some were barely capable of reading Dick and Jane primers, Some could barely utter a sentence without the phrase "You know, man"you know!" The rate of graduation for UNLV athletes in those days was very dismal. The grandiose dreams and plans of promoting UNLV athletics with minimal concern for maintaining quality enrollment standards in those earlier days earned UNLV a national reputation as a school of questionable and sometimes laughable academic standing. This nightmare at UNLV is being reversed and gaining in national prestige and reputation as a school of excellent academic standards.

If you really want to do an in depth analysis of this district begin with the central office administration and the extreme overload of administrative positions. Thee has to be something wrong with a school district need a phone directory, mini volume, of names and phone numbers. Why do we have to have so many make work, paper shufflers in our district and schools? Why do schools need more than 1 principal and 1-2 vice principals on 6 figure salaries. EXAMPLE Why do secondary schools need an administrator, 6 figure salaried nerd in charge of activities and sports,i.e athletic director. In the old days the head coach of FB or BB was the athletic director PERIOD!