Statement of Principles


Nevada government keeps getting bigger and BIGGER. We deserve minimum, strictly limited, constitutional government in this State.

Forget all this blather about a $3B "shortfall". The budget for the '12/'13 biennium should be no more than $200M.



Friday, February 5, 2010

Nevada System of Higher Waste

Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum

This demagogue Klaich is too much. The Univ of NV was established as sort of a public charity. Mining, Engineering, and Agriculture students were meant to be the "beneficiaries"; FREE (or nominal) TUITION. Yep.

Well *that* modest mission could not stand! The applied science students now have to pay full fee. Can't discriminate against liberal arts students (who had NO place in the original university). Welcome to the "new" UNV charity:

  • Klaich ($335K)
  • UNR Pres Glick ($435K)
  • UNLV Pres Smatresk ($300K); other top officials slightly less
  • new UNLV Head Football Coach Hauck ($450K); his assistants $125K
  • new Athletic Director Livengood ($300K)
  • Head Basketball Coach Kruger ($1M); his assistants $125K
  • Clinical professors ($400K)
  • unionized Basketweaving professors -- some of whom are related to Legislators ($80K)
  • JOCKS get free rides.
The public sector is NOT supposed to be a place to get rich. Taxpayers might have other priorities for their money -- like making THEMSELVES rich. NSHE receives federal funding. Where's Obama's Pay Czar when you need him?

Make the UNV a small A&M (+mining) school once again. Those students pay NOTHING. No more Division 1 sports. Teams can be recruited from the >2m tall applied science majors. Coaches from their faculty; assistants their grad students. No more athletic scholarships. No more liberal arts, or at least make THEM pay full (user) fee. $800/credit sounds right. No more research-driven (politically funded) faculty. Research is an uncertain activity best left to the private sector. No more expensive career professors. If need be recruit emeritus professors who have retired here to work for token honoria. Teaching the next generation is sort of a sacred duty which Phd's took upon themselves the moment they accepted their Black Belts.

No more GM pay scale university administrators.

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