(10-31-2021 12:59 PM)flash3200 Wrote: Hopefully they spend it on creating well rounded and well educated individuals from undergrad programs. The last few undergrad Rice hires in my group have been complete bombs.
Or we could spend it on a palatial guilded opera house that costs around $1 million per audience seat while lying to everyone and saying that we are pursuing equity.
The dumb 4 year degree holders and leftist dog whistling while building a materially elitist University are probably related, but what do I know.
Watch out, Flash. The elitists on the board will shout you down and whine about you expressing an opinion different from their approved line of groupthink...all while enthusiastically touting the next conference on campus featuring Zero or one of his minions pontificating on the unbalanced values they hold so dear with breathless enthusiasm, and not a hint of remorse for mentioning it on the sports boards. Or republishing pleas for donations to politically motivated causes celebre of their point of view in the most obtuse manner without even seeing that it violates their own stated principles not to do so. Well, apparently you can post about leftists climate change fundraising and the university's racist indoctrination courses on the sports boards all you want and that's just fine, but post about America and traditional values that actually built the nation and once made it great, and well, you are evil and unwelcome--shouted down with glee.
We see the same attitudes on our athletic fields of play contributing to their struggles. Your assertion seems increasingly correct that many of those who are now graduating from the U are increasingly unemployable in real-world jobs although sophistic echo chambers might still seem hungry for many of them.
It would be refreshing for more of a balance of grads like the builders, doers and creators of yesteryear instead of so many whiny beta sophisticates who scowl openly, whining at any mention of a shared history of our institution's important contributions to our former national prominence and leadership from ahead instead of from behind as they famously have been taught to accept and promulgate with their bully tactics.
The men who helped send us to the moon and beyond while overcoming seemingly impossible obstacles from actual real-world problems to make our nation proud and exceptional instead of made-up ones seem largely to have long since left the building. And the same attitudes of weakness and beta-male conditioning have long-since permeated our sports teams, making it additionally difficult for the athletes to mature as well-rounded young men and women (oops, can't say that as it's wrongthink) and try to rise above the nonsense in order to succeed on the fields of play. The discipline and grittiness of coaches like Wayne Graham are generally not welcomed on campus at South Main because they are successful by rooting themselves in traditional values and hard work rather than excuses and new age fantasies that don't work when confronted with real world situations. Rice football teams especially should have long since figured out how to use our alleged academic superiority to its advantage on the fields of play. Things like finding alternative ways of using intellect, speed and scheming, et cetera that have been mentioned ad infinitum by some on these boards. The stubbornness to keep to losing ways so long as they don't rock the boat of the Rice Way is wholly related to the wrongheaded values of the current university ethos that makes many of our present day grads more busts than successes in the workplace. I still hold out some hope that change will come. The institution's proud history echoes with the whispers of past success that portend an opportunity to lead in the future. Would that we had more on campus who could hear it and deign to respond to the call to be champions.
