Speaker Bill Howell and friends are talking about selling highways and bridges to private investors. If he wants to sell Mr. Jefferson’s Academical Village, today he could probably persuade me. Maybe it’s a Halloween prank article, and maybe it’s not.
You Knew It HAD To Happen, And UVA Would Lead
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10 responses to “You Knew It HAD To Happen, And UVA Would Lead”
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“Where all is bright and gay” takes on a whole new meaning.
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A plethora of experience with students?
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this is an outrage. the homosexuals should not be coddled, they should be beaten with baseball bats.
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This development is surely NOT a Halloween prank. Having left UVA’s administration a few years ago, this is about on par with their planned initiatives. And please, lets not get started on how significantly the VA college system is already underfunded, especially compared to schools in the same weight category.
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You guys are gay bashers. You probably didn’t like African-Americans drinking out of the same water fountains either.
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Senor C, this is why many of us don’t lose any sleep about university funding. Give them moneh and this is how they spend it. This has nothing to do with the academic mission of such an important institution.
Nor is it “gay bashing” to question the need for this position. It is a stupid waste of money, and clearly an effort to pander to a noisy, whiny minority who don’t want equality — they want special treatment. Of course they shouldn’t be “beaten” nor should they be arrested for activity in private — nothing new about this on college campuses — but their own administrator? Not.
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I know ‘Anonymous’ is a famous writer, an immortal it seems dating back to the Ancient Greeks, but it’s amazing how intelligent he/she can get in one hour adn eighteen minutes from one Anonymous to another.
The new office shows how much The University isn’t in financial straights and how badly they need adult, scholarly leadership in the administration.
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Okay, so let me ask you this. When does a whiny minority cease to be ‘whiny’? You’ll notice that the individual in charge of the search for the LGBT position is also a director for Fraternity and Sorority Life. While the LGBT population is less than 10% of the overall student population, I know for a fact that Greeks only consist of 1/3 of the student body. Do they deserve to have their own special interest representative or office being a minority as well? Most of the older alumni would probably answer ‘yes’ based solely on tradition. I’m definitely not disagreeing with your assessment of school financial priorities, but the trouble at UVA and other colleges is you give a bone to one hungry pup, and you’ll have a dozen more show up the next day. FYI, there’s also a women’s center (51%), office of African American affairs (9%) and not to be left out, a dean working with Asian Americans (12%) and Hispanics (< 4%).
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Agreed. The vast majority of those positions are unnecessary (speaking as a confirmed Gamma Delta Iota) and once you start down that road, it is hard to say no to the next group that makes a request/demand. Which is why I started this with the comment that this latest permutation was inevitable, it “had to happen.” But that don’t make it right.
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Just open up a new Office of Heterosexual Male Affairs, so that we can get into much-needed discussions around topics like: “The Floor: Not For Underwear Storage,” “Gay Marriage: If They Want In-laws, God Bless’em,” “From Pizza to Penicillin: How to Clean the Fridge,” and my personal favorite, “Women, Weight and You: She Never, Ever Looks Fat in that Dress.”
— Conaway
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