John Kavanagh quoted in the Arizona Guardian, regarding a plan to charge all students, even those on need based scholarships, a minimum $1000 a year:
It’s unfair. Why should these students get to go to school for free just because their families are poor?
Yeah, the poor get too many educational opportunities in our society. It’s time to put a stop to that.
By the way, he’s doing them a favor:
Students will appreciate their education more and take a greater sense of pride if they pay for their own degrees, Kavanagh said.
When I started this blog, I promised myself that I would keep the language clean. It’s hard to read things like this and thing of any noun to refer to the person saying them except those that refer to the lower anatomy.
Oh, but our man Kavanagh has his priorites:
Under the GOP proposal, students with merit-based or athletic scholarships would not be asked to pay a minimum tuition. Veterans also would not be asked to meet a minimum tuition level.
Kavanagh said lawmakers recognize the value of athletics to the universities and their ability to raise money from alumni.
“Do you really want to see the ASU basketball team go to the bottom and lose all that revenue?” Kavanagh said.
Oh, Heaven forbid.
NB: Hat tip to Dana Kennedy.
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Great minds think alike, I was writing about this for the leg update and I also went back 8 years to compassionate conservativism. I would like to think this stuff is made up, but it isn’t! It is a mind set I just can’t get mine to go to. I think you should do a blog on if you had a choice who would you vote for and put a picture of Stephanie Rimmer and then the picture you have above. Then use quotes, he said, she said.
Well thank goodness he’s got his priorities straight and isn’t going to go after the basketball players!
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Isn’t it a shame when cousins marry?
A few years ago I worked as a tax preparer at H&R Block and I can tell you that there are people who work on the reservation fulltime as sheepherders and earn $4000 per year (no joke, that’s what some of them earn.)
But I guess for Mr. Kavanaugh it’s “only $1000.” If Navajo sheepherders want to go to college they can always learn to play basketball.
As it is a lot of them only send their daughters to (community) college because the sons try to get a job as soon as possible in order to support the family.
There is no use wasting time over nouns when it is verbs we need. Replace, kick, move, vacate…vamanos! This man really believes that people need to pay for their education to appreciate all through K-12 as well. I can understand a screwball here or there but how do two of them chair the appropriation committees????
Mr. Eli
you got it right up there. it’s all about keeping the colleges for white people.
I literally felt nauseous reading that. Actual going-to-barf sensation. What does it take to get rid of these people?!
PaulaT,
I have no idea. My frustration is as hightened as yours.
As an aside, the notion of athletics driving donations to colleges and universities is a false one. While I definitely think athletics can put a university on the map and has other benefits, the dollars that you donate to athletics goes to seperate athletic fund accounts that bring you better athletics facilities and more teams. Not bad. HOWEVER, it does not increase donations to the academic side of the fence at all and some say it even detracts from academic donations.
Just a little reminder of how bad a job we do at educating sometimes and how bad a job people do at understanding higher education.
Whew.
Yes. I’d take tremendous joy in watching ASU’s basketball team plummet to the bottom.
Reading this yesterday made me think only bad thoughts.
But three words come to mind at this point:
Janet Napolitano’s Ambition.
RRRRRRRRRRR!
I think it’s about time we had the “Jim Calhoun” discussion about taxpayer subsidies for college athletics, especially if the alternative is charging EVERY student a $1,000.00 fee not covered by scholarships.
Forget “conservatism,” please. It has, operationally, de facto, been Godless and thus irrelevant. Secular conservatism will not defeat secular liberalism because to God they are two atheistic peas-in-a-pod and thus predestined to failure. As Stonewall Jackson’s Chief of Staff R.L. Dabney said of such a humanistic belief more than 100 years ago:
”[Secular conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today .one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It .is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth.”
Our country is collapsing because we have turned our back on God (Psalm 9:17) and refused to kiss His Son (Psalm 2).
John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Recovering Republican
JLof@aol.com
Recovering Republican and Burgeoning Theocrat.
“Do you really want to see the ASU basketball team go to the bottom and lose all that revenue?” Kavanagh said.
Hilarious, given that he led the march to cut “all that revenue” to ASU from the state. What a moron.
John,
Maybe you should have a talk with Ahmadinejad. He might be just your kind of guy.