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Showing posts with label Louisiana State University. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Louisiana State University. Show all posts
Sunday, July 28, 2024

Whistle while you work: Why are the waitresses at Louie's Cafe so cheerful?

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  Louie’s café is a greasy spoon restaurant in the best sense of the word. It has been in business since 1941 and is open until late at nigh...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

What happens to young people who go to college without basic reading and writing skills? It's not good

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  The Baton Rouge Advocate published an editorial a few days ago titled "Get ahead in colleges like LSU, without all the hard work....
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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Paul Campos says that college presidents and varsity coaches "are robbing us blind," and he is right

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Paul Campos , a professor at the University of  Colorado Law School, wrote an essay for The Chronicle of Higher Education on the astounding...
Thursday, December 2, 2021

LSU signs $95 million contract with new football coach: "We must have been our of our minds."

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 John Prine and Melba Montgomery recorded a great country song a few years ago: We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds ." The song tells th...
Tuesday, November 9, 2021

College students: Don't Take Out Student Loans to Pay for a Luxury Apartment

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 When I was a child, my parents were poor. That was OK because almost everyone in my little Oklahoma town was poor, and we all told each oth...
Monday, October 4, 2021

"Only pay for what you need": College students are paying for products or services they don't need

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 Perhaps the most inane car insurance commercial ever aired is one by Liberty Mutual: "Only pay for what you need."  Apparently, L...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

LSU uses COVID money to clear student debt: "What a good boy am I!"

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 Louisiana State University announced this week that it will use $7 million in COVID relief money to clear debts that students owe the univ...
Monday, November 2, 2020

Student-housing and meal plans at American universities: Another reason college students are taking out large student loans

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College students take out more and more student loans to pay their tuition bills with each passing year because tuition has risen at twice t...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

Don't want no stinkin' Louisiana driver's license: Andrea Ballinger, LSU administrator with six-figure salary, quits her job rather than get Louisiana driver's license

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Louisiana law requires unclassified state employees who earn salaries over $100,000 per year to obtain Louisiana drivers licenses and regist...
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Sunday, December 13, 2015

Up the Lazy River without a paddle: Universities use student fees to fund campus renovations and construction

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In spite of financial woes so severe that LSU president F. King Alexander ruminated publicly about institutional bankruptcy, Louisiana State...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Secret Searches for College Presidents: Are They Good for Higher Education? A Call for a Federal Open Records Law That Applies to All Colleges That Receive Federal Funds

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Inside Higher Education published an article earlier this week on the controversial career of Evan Dobelle, currently president of Westfiel...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Memo to LSU: Fire Your Lawyers, Fire Your Executive Search Firm, and Apologize to Judge Clark

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When I practiced law years ago, my senior partner gave me three good pieces of advice. 1. Always comply with a court order. 2. Never hide...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

Playing For Time: Who Benefits When A University Keeps Its Executive Searches Secret?

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As of today, Louisiana State University has been in contempt of a court order for 115 days, incurring a fine of $500 a day for each day it i...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

The New Arrogance of Our Public Universities: LSU Refuses to Comply with a Court Order

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Mark Emmert: LSU Prez 1999-2004 Goodbye, Mark. We hardly knew ye! Never disobey a court order--this was the advice my senior partner ga...