Saturday, March 12, 2005

Money Solves [Almost] All Problems

Good news for Nebraska U….

Watching the on-going fiasco at Colorado University, from the perspective of a Nebraska U alumnus (class of ‘75, double major microbio/chem), I can feel nothing but joy for my alma mater. [Note: I do appreciate a well honed sense of school pride. I see it every year here in town with the annual Bell competition between the distaff’s school and the school that serves where we live now. It fills me with hope for the future. In the Army, we refer to it as Fighting Spirit and it is what wins battles and wars. Hey! Aren’t we in one of those now?]

As some wag put it in the form of a toast in some drinking bout amongst officers of an army in contact with its enemy, “Confusion to the enemy!” And I agree….in a friendly sort of way. And face it, what can be more confusing than the politically-correct environs of the Republic of Boulder? Seriously. Look at what PC has got them into. Sex scandals, fraud and perhaps, as of recent reports, even worse.

I’m not surprised that the CU president has resigned. It probably should have happened a long time ago, when the damage to that great educational institution would have been less tramatic. But that’s PC for you. There is a higher bar for the concept of ‘shame’ amongst the PC. Just look at Paris Hilton. As some pundit put it, “Paris Hilton is proof that one cannot die of ‘shame’”. [Note: It probably has something to do with the aluvial ground they ‘stand’ on. They’ve learned how to jump. As opposed to people who stand on a form of ground that is set in stone.]

So now CU’s approach to dealing with the cretin is to pay-off the character and ‘Move On’. Nothing about public hearings and ‘disbarring’, or whatever they do to ‘defrock’ a tenured professor, for being a lying [and possibly worse] so-and-so.

It can only bode well for the University of Nebraska, in the long run; barring their falling into the same trap the denizens of Boulder have forced CU into.

One would think that since CU is the educational institution of the entire state, the rest of the state would try to do something about it. But I suspect that since most of the rest of the state thinks of the Republic of Boulder the way I do, ignore it, not much is going to change. That is, unless the rest of us get our act together to say we’re sick and tired of this silliness that subjugates our childrens’ education to the ever-changing winds of PC.

However, from the Nebrasakan perspective, this is ‘great’ news. And most especially if CU persists in its PC proclivities. Who knows? In a couple of years time, we’ll clobber THEM in a series of Thanksgiving Day rivalry games.

P.S. I’m game for friendly wagers on future football games between these two schools. Just e-mail me. You should be an alumn of CU to wager against me as a one of NU. My usual wager is a six-pack of the winner’s favorite carbonated beverage in 12-oz containers.