I can’t help but even wonder if those stadiums actually turn a profit?
They don’t, even if sometimes the administration ghouls will make that promise toward credulous parents (whose property taxes pay for that shit, mostly) and toward faculty (often with the most condescending language in bulletins about how we “all need to tighten our belts” to the amount of the cost of the stadium).
It was that way in the college I went to as well. Administration got themselves a massive administration-only expansion to their own recreation center and some pretentious flex architecture to the campus and turned the library (the LIBRARY at a fucking UNIVERSITY I might add) into a pompous and LOUD coffee shop with some books on the walls used as DECORATION.
my college did the same thing but they sold it to the alumni association by saying it was gonna at least be a local coffee shop. It was for 2 years until the university raised the rent on the local shop so they could put in a Starbucks lol
The university system is a fuck and nothing made me hate it more than attending it.
I enjoyed college life for the most part, but the peonage of the “adjunct” system was unjust and you can see the weariness and precarity in the instructors’ eyes, though the handful of older tenured “fuck you, got mine” types certainly seemed to enjoy their little perches.
Two, just two, of my tenured professors were actually amazing and were full comrades, up to and including on-the-street cred for being there for key Civil Rights skirmishes.
I fully sympathize. Like don’t get me wrong, I really liked college and if I could, I’d love to wake up as 18 again and go once more, but college in the us is cooked and the war on education has made sure of that.
nobody wanted it but the admin. we got a new university president around the same time and he implemented several dumb things to “modernize” the university. They also got rid of a pretty popular student run burger spot in the student union for a Subway. I guess they thought chains would bring prestige or something. it sucked
They don’t, even if sometimes the administration ghouls will make that promise toward credulous parents (whose property taxes pay for that shit, mostly) and toward faculty (often with the most condescending language in bulletins about how we “all need to tighten our belts” to the amount of the cost of the stadium).
It was that way in the college I went to as well. Administration got themselves a massive administration-only expansion to their own recreation center and some pretentious flex architecture to the campus and turned the library (the LIBRARY at a fucking UNIVERSITY I might add) into a pompous and LOUD coffee shop with some books on the walls used as DECORATION.
my college did the same thing but they sold it to the alumni association by saying it was gonna at least be a local coffee shop. It was for 2 years until the university raised the rent on the local shop so they could put in a Starbucks lol
The university system is a fuck and nothing made me hate it more than attending it.
I enjoyed college life for the most part, but the peonage of the “adjunct” system was unjust and you can see the weariness and precarity in the instructors’ eyes, though the handful of older tenured “fuck you, got mine” types certainly seemed to enjoy their little perches.
Two, just two, of my tenured professors were actually amazing and were full comrades, up to and including on-the-street cred for being there for key Civil Rights skirmishes.
I fully sympathize. Like don’t get me wrong, I really liked college and if I could, I’d love to wake up as 18 again and go once more, but college in the us is cooked and the war on education has made sure of that.
I actually enjoyed college overall, though the actual college part of that experience sucked. Weird.
Who in gods name wants a starbucks over a local coffee shop? Lower quality and more expensive.
nobody wanted it but the admin. we got a new university president around the same time and he implemented several dumb things to “modernize” the university. They also got rid of a pretty popular student run burger spot in the student union for a Subway. I guess they thought chains would bring prestige or something. it sucked