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doreilly



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:47 am    Post subject: News Coverage Reply with quote

Read these articles:

Notice this quotes

"You don’t develop a program to fix a problem for tomorrow. You develop a program to build a national reputation in the long run,” Lefton said. “Engineering is an area of study we no longer wish to be involved in.”
and,
“We want to grow in areas where we have strength,” says Tulane Provost Lester Lefton. “You can’t build a major program by fixing the levees.”

These are reckless statements from an institution that doesn't pay any property tax to the city or state.


http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/2201087.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/14/national/nationalspecial/14tulane.html

http://enr.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0271-23932_ITM
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wwalkeri



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow!!
Those statements by the provost show to the Louisiana and the Nation that cutting engineering had almost nothing to do with money. WE JUST DON'T FIT into their vision. Well their vision is not in the best interest of my city. This is not what Paul Tulane wanted. This is not what my city needs.

So what this man (Lefton) is saying is that they just no longer wish to be involved in engineering.

My mother always told me telling lies will screw you in the long run.

I've also heard rumors that the provost was actually the brains behind the plan.
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wckirby



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also, WDSU did a story on the most recent round of cuts. They're starting to dig their heels in against Tulane. You could tell they're tired from the endless B.S. from Tulane. They're starting to tie everything related to Tulane together. They're also starting to hammer Tulane on firing tons of employees when they've got a huge endowment that's gone untouched.

The endowment may not be in the league with Harvard and Yale, but just because you don't have as much money as Bill Gates, you aren't necessarily poor. No matter what way Dr. Cowen tries to spin it, the decision not to at least partially tap the endowment is an arbitrary decision. Plain and simple. There are legit reasons not to tap it, but there are also better reasons to tap it.
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wckirby



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

One last thing WDSU hammered on Tulane was they're firing people who've worked there (in some cases) for decades meanwile they're brining in dozens if not hundreds of out of state workers. WDSU mentioned it, but I'm not about to touch the issue of hiring illegal immigrants with a 10 foot pole.

Oh yeah, one employee that's been there for only 8 years who was passed over in the cuts: Scott Cowen.
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wwalkeri



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know everyone in this forum may not be conservative, but If we could get Bill O'Reilly to comment or do a story on this he would hammer them bad until he got answers
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perturbed1



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

O'Reilly would probably hammer them hard on the illegal alien issue. It is a pet peeve of his. Thousands of New orleanians can't come home bacause they don't have a place to live or a job to go to meanwhile Tulane is hiring and housing illegal immigrants - and we are not sure who is paying the bill for all this (besides the engineering students)

Beside O'Reilly hate bloviating asses like Cowen even though he is one himself - but at least he knows it.
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csgirl



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Go for it - do whatever you can to get Bill O'Reilly interested. I work with many many engineers in an area heavily populated by defense contractors - as engineers move away from college and into that work force, they tend toward the conservative side. 80% of the engineers I know watch Fox and O'Reilly (at least when they have time!) And our engineering alumni may be so busy at their work, they may not have seen much information about what is going on at Tulane. Bill O'reilly is a big windbag, but he is a funny windbag who makes his point, nonetheless.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 4:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"You don’t develop a program to fix a problem for tomorrow. You develop a program to build a national reputation in the long run,” Lefton said.

"The Partnership for the Transformation of Urban Communities will support educational, outreach and research programs of national and international relevance stemming from the Hurricane Katrina experience, and further the growth in urban studies that Tulane has been pursuing for a number of years," Scott Cowen

Sounds to me like these two guys need to get on the same page. We can't keep engineering because you cannot build a program around a one time disaster but you can can spend gobs of money on some nebulous piece of liberal flakery like the Partnership for the Transformation of Urban Communities because it sounds good in grant proposals.

BTW we can hold elections in Iraq but we can't hold them in New Orleans. Heck at this point we can't even schedule elections for New Orleans. Does anybody besides me think there might be something wrong with this picture? We've got a wrecked city and a bunch of scam artists, political hacks, and real-estate developers on the Bring Back New Orleans Commission arguing for a moratorium on building permits in the city. They can't get the electricity on, the street lights working, or the garbage fires put out but they are planning multi-billion dollar light rail systems for a city with no housing, 80,000 residents and a devastated tax base. These guys must be passing a crack pipe around at meetings. If they are Cowen is probably bogarting the thing.
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