NSHE is a POLITICAL Institution

Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum

• Progressives see a beacon for new employers.
• Sports fanatics see future NCAA Championships.
• Chauvinists see a source of state pride.
• Egalitarians see a way to help poor people -- even dumb ones -- go to college.
• Diversity zealots see a way to help "minorities" -- even dumb ones -- go to college.
• Leftists see a way to indoctrinate future voters about the threat of man-made environmental destruction.
• and on and on.

The crooked politicians don't share any of those delusions. They just see an opportunity to buy votes.

NSHE has *always* been about politics. The flagship university (now UNR) was situated to enhance the value of the land the Central (Republican)-Pacific RR schemed off the government. In fact the campus is just north of the depot! The "sales pitch" for the land grant colleges was to train brainy drones for the new demands of the Industrial Revolution (not completely false), but Washington politicians saw the program as a way to reward cronies (like modern-day redevelopment authorities) and buy support for Republican policies -- especially its aggressive military posture against the Southern states.

NSHE does not deserve your support.