Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Rogers said: If we start talking about (eliminating) a department, pretty soon everything falls apart.
How about eliminating all departments popular with "student"-athletes? UNLV is phasing out a degree program called "University Studies" because it's a jock major. Some huge percentage of players on the football and basketball teams were in it. The program's requirements are so soft, a 3rd grader could get through it. Nevertheless, most of its majors never complete it. Outrageous. Now UNLV is replacing that quack program with something called "Interdisciplinary". Same sewage, different toilet.
For that matter, how about eliminating *all* liberal arts programs? Most of those departments have no objective standards. It's noteworthy that a significant percentage of the majors are romantically involved with their professors. Why should blue-collar consumers of trashy romance novels have to pay sales taxes to support elitists who want to dissect Wuthering Heights as a pretext for sexual opportunism?
Rogers doesn't want to talk about eliminating ridiculous "academic" programs because then the truth about these charades would be exposed. Or, he might have to explain why UNLV places such a high value on professors of football ($431K per year) and basketball ($1M per year). Is Rogers the Chancellor of NSHE or ESPN?
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