In Jesuit parlance, "The ends justify the means". Officials at UNC evidently bought into this concept. For UNC to restore its integrity, they must:
Go all the way up to the top and start lopping off heads. Harry Truman had a sign on his desk, "the buck stops here". Senior UNC officials need to go.
Minimum admissions standards need to be set and need to be quantifiable. Minimum standards should be set at a floor of either lowest quartile or decile of all admitted students at UNC.
Quantifiable measures such as "progress towards degree" should be published semi-annually. Minimum standards should be set in this area.
Floors should be set in terms of graduation rates that exceed those required by NCAA standards.
Published reports on specific majors (without names of student athletes) for ALL UNC student athletes by team should be disclosed annually. This disclosure would negate the issue of athletes majoring in "underwater basket weaving" and the current flavor of the day, black studies etc.
Coaches should be held accountable (no incentive comp) and also rewarded (bonuses) by the academic performance of their student athletes.
The Southern Alliance of Colleges and Schools should become more involved with all academic and athletic issues as opposed to the NCAA. As in the case of Penn State, the threat of pulling their accreditation would keep all universities in line.
As the handling of the much more egregious Penn St.scandal, UNC must be held to a significantly higher standard to once again gain the trust of NC taxpayers. Enough is enough.
I recall in the 2000 election, GPA's and transcripts from both Bush and Gore were released to the public from both Yale and Harvard Business School (for Bush). Why is it that Obama refuses to release any of his academic records at Columbia? Why not release the actual birth records in Hawaii (I'm still not convinced he was born there)? Now come on folks, documents from both Dems and Republicans are not released. This is just another example of moving the focus away from the real and very important issues America faces.
BTW, McCain only released 2-years of tax returns and nobody squawked. Is it because Romney is successful? You bet.
Your argument that voter fraud is low falls to pieces. Please note the following reasons:
There is no actual way to actually measure voter fraud without having huge gaps in date. Without sufficient and RELIABLE data points, any statistical study does not hold water. By simply measuring actual cases of voter fraud which were DISCOVERED, how many cases of voter fraud were not.
Let's make the assumption that your premise is correct, Bush v. Gore proved that small numbers of votes do matter. Let's assume that there were only 131 cases of voter fraud in Palm Beach County, that level of voter fraud would have turned the entire presidential election.
Voting is one of the most sacred responsibility of responsible citizens, thus, it is incumbent that our state governments to safeguard the voters AND citizens to conduct a fair election.
If an individual feels it is not important enough to obtain a state ID card, that individual would not believe that their right to vote was not also. My 92 year-old mother-in-law has a NC state issued ID and is not fully ambulatory. If she can obtain this form of identification, why can't everyone else.
Voter disenfranchisement is another way in which liberals use the race card without really doing so.
Thank you for your short sighted liberal editorial Pilot.
@ Bentpan. Thanks for the response but you didn't mention the most staggering number.
We have approximately 23 million people who are either classified as unemployed, under-employed or discouraged workers (people who have given up looking for a job). If Dusty wants to have a real discussion about the success of Maobama, we should start at that number, instead we're playing "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain". The only way Obama can get reelected is by redirecting our focus away from his dismal performance.
The continued call for additional funding of public education continues to be a sore point for me. I believe that most of education expenditures are due to mismanagement, waste and continued "non-market" wages and pension costs.
The gains in test scores were not a "nice to have" but a "have to have" and that's why the goals were accomplished. Primary and secondary education will have to innovate to educate our students in a more economic and value added way.
Please see the link below about how VA Tech has found a way to reduce costs and increase performance of their students in ten lower level mathematics classes. I believe this is the future in education and many agree. The program at Tech was the brainchild of a $2 million research grant from the NSF. Money well spent in this case.
Let's not focus on budget but rather ways that we can be more efficient.
If Mitt just explained that his plan was to open the U.S. economy to open market solutions, that would be enough of a plan for me. Nonetheless, he does have a plan as the above poster has provided. It's just a matter of liberals and the elite media refusing to address reality.
You only need read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged to see what has transpired here in our country. It's almost "spooky" in the way she described a socialist economy and its eventual collapse.
I do not ascribe to all of Rand's philosophy including her staunch defense of atheism. Nonetheless, she was ahead of her time.
In addition to the above, please see link below on Michigan's DONR management of the goose population. The solution is a managed hunting season for geese in NC to reduce the population.
Please read the link below. The article explains the parasitic, bacterial and fungal issues connected with goose feces. Goose feces are a public health risk and goose feces in abundance is even a greater public health risk. The CG population has exploded and we need a solution. I might suggest what many Chicago area suburbs have done in recent years with an over-population of deer, hire professional hunters to reduce the population. I don't believe we need professional hunters here for the geese as we have great sportsmen in the area who could easily take care of the problem.
Again, we have people proposing the TAKING of private property. Why should the owner donate and take a tax write off?? The write-off is only worth the marginal tax rate that the individual pays. for instance, if the owner has a MTR of 30%, the the charitable the true economic value is only worth 70% of the market value of the property, independently appraised for IRS purposes which will probably be below the actual asking price..
Additionally, I don't give a flying frick what the local realtors say the property is worth, it's the owner's personal choice to hold the property until he gets his price which may never come. If the property is so darn important to the city, purchase the property at the asking price. Otherwise, butt out!
Newton 9 months, 1 week ago
Another Outrage Surfaces at UNC
In Jesuit parlance, "The ends justify the means". Officials at UNC evidently bought into this concept. For UNC to restore its integrity, they must:
As the handling of the much more egregious Penn St.scandal, UNC must be held to a significantly higher standard to once again gain the trust of NC taxpayers. Enough is enough.
In full disclosure:
GO VIRGINIA TECH HOKIES!!!!!
Newton 9 months, 1 week ago
Nit-Picking Comments
@teufelhunden, Good Comment
I recall in the 2000 election, GPA's and transcripts from both Bush and Gore were released to the public from both Yale and Harvard Business School (for Bush). Why is it that Obama refuses to release any of his academic records at Columbia? Why not release the actual birth records in Hawaii (I'm still not convinced he was born there)? Now come on folks, documents from both Dems and Republicans are not released. This is just another example of moving the focus away from the real and very important issues America faces.
BTW, McCain only released 2-years of tax returns and nobody squawked. Is it because Romney is successful? You bet.
Newton 9 months, 1 week ago
Ado About Little
Your argument that voter fraud is low falls to pieces. Please note the following reasons:
Thank you for your short sighted liberal editorial Pilot.
Newton 9 months, 1 week ago
'Help' Romney Didn't Need
@ Bentpan. Thanks for the response but you didn't mention the most staggering number.
We have approximately 23 million people who are either classified as unemployed, under-employed or discouraged workers (people who have given up looking for a job). If Dusty wants to have a real discussion about the success of Maobama, we should start at that number, instead we're playing "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain". The only way Obama can get reelected is by redirecting our focus away from his dismal performance.
Newton 9 months, 1 week ago
Education Gains Hard to Sustain?
The continued call for additional funding of public education continues to be a sore point for me. I believe that most of education expenditures are due to mismanagement, waste and continued "non-market" wages and pension costs.
The gains in test scores were not a "nice to have" but a "have to have" and that's why the goals were accomplished. Primary and secondary education will have to innovate to educate our students in a more economic and value added way.
Please see the link below about how VA Tech has found a way to reduce costs and increase performance of their students in ten lower level mathematics classes. I believe this is the future in education and many agree. The program at Tech was the brainchild of a $2 million research grant from the NSF. Money well spent in this case.
Let's not focus on budget but rather ways that we can be more efficient.
http://www.highereducation.org/crosstalk/ct0105/news0105-virginia.shtml
Newton 9 months, 1 week ago
Substance, Not Blame
If Mitt just explained that his plan was to open the U.S. economy to open market solutions, that would be enough of a plan for me. Nonetheless, he does have a plan as the above poster has provided. It's just a matter of liberals and the elite media refusing to address reality.
You only need read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged to see what has transpired here in our country. It's almost "spooky" in the way she described a socialist economy and its eventual collapse.
I do not ascribe to all of Rand's philosophy including her staunch defense of atheism. Nonetheless, she was ahead of her time.
Newton 9 months, 1 week ago
Appreciate Them for Their Beauty
In addition to the above, please see link below on Michigan's DONR management of the goose population. The solution is a managed hunting season for geese in NC to reduce the population.
http://www.mlive.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2011/09/hunters_help_to_reduce_the_ove.html
Newton 9 months, 1 week ago
Appreciate Them for Their Beauty
Please read the link below. The article explains the parasitic, bacterial and fungal issues connected with goose feces. Goose feces are a public health risk and goose feces in abundance is even a greater public health risk. The CG population has exploded and we need a solution. I might suggest what many Chicago area suburbs have done in recent years with an over-population of deer, hire professional hunters to reduce the population. I don't believe we need professional hunters here for the geese as we have great sportsmen in the area who could easily take care of the problem.
http://icwdm.org/handbook/birds/CanadaGeese/HumanHealth.aspx
Newton 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Downtown Impasse Should Be Resolved
Are you daft?"
Again, we have people proposing the TAKING of private property. Why should the owner donate and take a tax write off?? The write-off is only worth the marginal tax rate that the individual pays. for instance, if the owner has a MTR of 30%, the the charitable the true economic value is only worth 70% of the market value of the property, independently appraised for IRS purposes which will probably be below the actual asking price..
Additionally, I don't give a flying frick what the local realtors say the property is worth, it's the owner's personal choice to hold the property until he gets his price which may never come. If the property is so darn important to the city, purchase the property at the asking price. Otherwise, butt out!
Newton 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Mitt? Not So Much
Let me get this straight... vaccuous?
Harvard MBA/JD combined.
Partner in one of the top consultancies in the world
Founder of one of the most highly respected PEG's in the U.S.
Compared to that clown sitting in the White House, Romney is Mensa and Maobama is EMH
What planet are you living on?