New College is being stripped of its assets, programs have been cut and faculty have been driven out, buildings are being demolished, academic students have been sent to live in hotels while dorms are assigned to kids who have been recruited with full scholarships to play on the newly established sports teams and Rufo and Corcoran make hundreds of thousands in bloated salary while further grifting on corrupt contracts for services. It’s all in plain sight. I predict the college will ultimately fold and all that sweet real estate will become another Mar-a-Largo for some asshole.
Holy shit, the blatant corruption and fraud. How is all of that not illegal? Isn't it also a private school? Is there any way to fight back against these assholes? I predict you are correct that it will fold eventually once they've sucked all of the money out of it they can.
New College was founded by the UCC to be a non-segregated college but was then sold to the University of Florida system back in the 1960s. Folks have been fighting, but losing, and being forced out. Corcoran and Rufo and DeSantis are cartoonishly but effectively evil.
If I could see just one of these grifters (the kind who ought to know better) end up doing serious prison time, it's this guy. Subject to a fair trial, conviction, and sentencing in a court of law, obvi.
"Good" is incredibly relative, even when speaking of Repugnicans. Sasse was the author of the "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act," back in 2019, to give you some idea of what a hateful goon we're talking here. Just another evangelical he-man woman-hater on the grift...
For a while there, he was their Manchin- a Senator who reveled in his power to thwart any thing, while proposing nothing. Yes, he was, for a while there, anointed a "moderate" by the corporate media, one of those conmen who propose "common sense solutions" and "compromise", both of which mean that the Democrats shouldn't oppose any of the crazy stupid shit the Republican party wants, just sit quietly in the corner while congresspersons who represent a distinct minority of Americans run things the way The Lord intended.
I am sure university employees salaries are public records and that's how The Alligator got the numbers. I am also sure DeSanitize will make those records private now.
In “The Theory of the Leisure Class,” Thorstein Veblen wrote that a man’s status was determined in part by how many people he supported in his household or employ who did no work. By that measure, Sasse was enriched in the amount paid to his crony hires. He should have to pay income tax on that money in addition to his own salary.
Kudos to Gary for having the courage to use Latinate sentence construction to avoid violating the Latin grammar prohibition on finishing a sentence with a preposition. Also, comedic effect.
God bless those kids on that newspaper for uncovering this. May they go on to satisfying careers in journalism, if that is, God help them, their future field.
Oh, that horse left the barn a long time ago. At Northwestern, it's now called the "Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications," and no, there is no "and" to be found there, and no, I am not making any of this up.
The purpose of Journalism School is to allow the kids the opportunity to vent their idealistic enthusiasm for digging deep and uncovering the truth so they have that nonsense behind them when they go out and work in the real media world.
Hopefully, Dr. Ladapo will be next.
New College is being stripped of its assets, programs have been cut and faculty have been driven out, buildings are being demolished, academic students have been sent to live in hotels while dorms are assigned to kids who have been recruited with full scholarships to play on the newly established sports teams and Rufo and Corcoran make hundreds of thousands in bloated salary while further grifting on corrupt contracts for services. It’s all in plain sight. I predict the college will ultimately fold and all that sweet real estate will become another Mar-a-Largo for some asshole.
Holy shit, the blatant corruption and fraud. How is all of that not illegal? Isn't it also a private school? Is there any way to fight back against these assholes? I predict you are correct that it will fold eventually once they've sucked all of the money out of it they can.
New College was founded by the UCC to be a non-segregated college but was then sold to the University of Florida system back in the 1960s. Folks have been fighting, but losing, and being forced out. Corcoran and Rufo and DeSantis are cartoonishly but effectively evil.
In Florida education is woke.
Is a joke
Corruption among contemporary republicans is a feature, not a bug. And a requirement before and after political office apparently.
And the Republicans have the gall to call the left spendthrifts? What a load of hypocritical assholes.
If I could see just one of these grifters (the kind who ought to know better) end up doing serious prison time, it's this guy. Subject to a fair trial, conviction, and sentencing in a court of law, obvi.
Ben Sasse?
I remember him.
He was one of the good Republicans, wasn't he?
"Good" is incredibly relative, even when speaking of Repugnicans. Sasse was the author of the "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act," back in 2019, to give you some idea of what a hateful goon we're talking here. Just another evangelical he-man woman-hater on the grift...
For a while there, he was their Manchin- a Senator who reveled in his power to thwart any thing, while proposing nothing. Yes, he was, for a while there, anointed a "moderate" by the corporate media, one of those conmen who propose "common sense solutions" and "compromise", both of which mean that the Democrats shouldn't oppose any of the crazy stupid shit the Republican party wants, just sit quietly in the corner while congresspersons who represent a distinct minority of Americans run things the way The Lord intended.
I knew that good rang a bell.
gonna go with "no".
Maybe the school should allow the mascot into the administration building and lock the door behind it.
I am sure university employees salaries are public records and that's how The Alligator got the numbers. I am also sure DeSanitize will make those records private now.
A university professor whose beak did not get wet here.
In “The Theory of the Leisure Class,” Thorstein Veblen wrote that a man’s status was determined in part by how many people he supported in his household or employ who did no work. By that measure, Sasse was enriched in the amount paid to his crony hires. He should have to pay income tax on that money in addition to his own salary.
LOCK HIM UP.
this was a state of affairs up with which boyish bullshit artist Ben Sasse did not put
Nice. Leave no participle undangled, that’s what I always say
Kudos to Gary for having the courage to use Latinate sentence construction to avoid violating the Latin grammar prohibition on finishing a sentence with a preposition. Also, comedic effect.
God bless those kids on that newspaper for uncovering this. May they go on to satisfying careers in journalism, if that is, God help them, their future field.
Yay for journalism and not "communications"!!!
Oh, that horse left the barn a long time ago. At Northwestern, it's now called the "Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications," and no, there is no "and" to be found there, and no, I am not making any of this up.
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The purpose of Journalism School is to allow the kids the opportunity to vent their idealistic enthusiasm for digging deep and uncovering the truth so they have that nonsense behind them when they go out and work in the real media world.
J-school can't give you a talent for the work that you don't have. It can only bring out a latent one.
As usual, the kids are alright.
How did these new positions get approved? Who signed off on this?
And did they get fired right away once Sasse left?
"This writing thing was the wrong career choice. We should have instead attached ourselves like a remora to some powerful twerp like Ben Sasse."
Yeah but you'd have to be a) evil and b) incompetent for your plan to work.
And there would be fins to the left, fins to the right, and you're the only bait in town.
"We could be earning a six-figure salary and still not have to put on pants during the workday." Oh, sure, like you're wearing pants right now.
Yeah, but what about the six-figure salary? Huh, where's all the monies, nooooowwww?