Yea...like it or love it, you can't do your job if you've got people working against you.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChuckK3
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Yea...like it or love it, you can't do your job if you've got people working against you.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChuckK3
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Originally Posted by ChuckK3
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Vissarionovich? Is that you?
Cedric B. Glover @MayorGlover
If u live in #Shreveport & are concerned about the apparent implosion & dismantling of the #LSUHSC system, who do u want in the White House?
The thing is it is wise to have at least some dissenting opinion to help you consider alternatives that might be better that you wouldn't have thought of. Jindal has the mentality of he is always right and no one else ever is. Don't get me wrong I am registered Repub, follow most of the party line and all, but I just don't like Jindal's arrogant, and imo Obama-like, attitude.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChuckK3
Quite a stretch, he's trying to lay the blame at Jindals feet, thereby Republicans feet, thereby you should vote for Obama...?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
The apparent (but not actual) implosion & dismantling is due to shortfalls/reduction in the state budget.
If you dissent then have the conversation with him and his staff; don't go in a newspaper and blast them. This is the majority of politics problems, in my opinion, politicians are more interested in pointing out to the whole world and embarrassing the other party rather than working together to do whats best for the country...Quote:
Originally Posted by BoutThemDawgs
Good FB post from Wayne Hogue:
The Tech-LSUS merger initiative is not, and has never been, about LSU Baton Rouge: it’s 100% about Northwest Louisiana’s future best interests—and absolutely nothing else. LSUS is not LSU. LSUS competes with LSU for resources, students, programs, recognition, etc. (albeit on a miniscule and diminishing scale since both universities are managed by a board whose primary mandate is to promote LSU—which includes limiting competition).
The merger is especially not about LSU football. Most of us in NW LA love LSU football; LSU football is good for our state. And, academically, we want our state’s land-grant flagship university to be the best land-grant flagship on the planet. However, I don’t want my home, North Louisiana, to have to continue limiting our future potential simply to keep from competing with the Baton Rouge campus. I also believe anyone who calls NW LA “home” should agree.
We (NW LA) need, want, deserve, and demand a comprehensive university in Shreveport-Bossier City. Being one of the largest MSA’s in the nation without such a university has to end. Louisiana Tech is the kind of university we need, and everyone at Tech is willing, able, and thrilled to help bring that kind of university to Shreveport-Bossier City. We are already building it in fact, that’s my job, and I am more passionate about my job than I’ve ever been because I can see the phenomenal positive impact we’re going to have on NW LA—that fires me up!
A stronger/bigger Tech will actually help make LSU even stronger—competition elevates everyone’s game. Look at how many states that beat Louisiana on every measure have two very strong universities. On a program and personal level, Tech and LSU folks are very connected and communicate, and cooperate, on many things. While LSU football is good for Louisiana, LA Tech football (and all Tech athletics) is good for North Louisiana specifically. And, while Shreveport-Bossier has little except money that Baton Rouge wants or needs, we have lots of things Ruston wants and needs, so it’s immediately a symbiotic relationship. If Shreveport-Bossier City prospers, Ruston does as well (and so does every community in North Louisiana).
I’m happy that folks are now beginning to see the truth of the situation. I hope we can begin moving forward the right way, working together with nothing but NW LA’s future in mind.
Hmm, I don't like the way he places LSU football as good for the state and Tech football good for the region. The way he wrote it gives him enough room to say that isn't what he meant, but I don't like it.
Yeah, I overlooked that because his main focus was on improving the academics in the region.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrDawg
I think he put it exactly right. We have to play this game right, as we saw last time this can become a highly emotional subject. Though it makes complete logical and financial sense it won't happen if we don't frame the debate correctly and allow those who oppose it to put it as Tech vs lsu.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrDawg
We are not trying to kill the sacred cow/hurt lsu, we are trying to better ourselves and the area.
Well...not right NOWQuote:
Originally Posted by GermDawg
shhh... Again we may never get there, but if we go slowly and build our rep, strength, and support, when we move from No 2 to No 1 it will not be a shock at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Dawg
It's like the old saying:
Put a frog in a boiling pot it'll jump out immediately, put it in a cold pot and slowly crank up the heat a voila frog stew...
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Originally Posted by GermDawg
Exactly. We need the masses to get behind this. Fighting LSU is not the goal in this merger. Improving Louisiana Tech, improving higher education in Shreveport-Bossier, boosting the NW LA economy. Those are the things we are after, and right now we need the LSU supporters on our side.Quote:
Originally Posted by GermDawg
I think it would also help to frame the argument, in BR, as we are helping lsu by taking off the under-performer/dead weight, have to be careful though, as it could piss off the LSUS people being categorized as such.Quote:
Originally Posted by detltu