I firmly believe that if the white head of a public university had done what this woman did, they'd be fired and facing serious jail time...
Texas Southern University President Priscilla Slade has reimbursed the university more than $138,000 for the cost of landscaping her new home, according to records released Wednesday.Slade, who wrote the check Monday, is hoping to get back into the good graces of the university's board of regents before they meet Friday to discuss her future. She is also under scrutiny for charging roughly $87,000 to TSU for household furnishings, according to a source familiar with the inquiry.
Ah, yes. She's stolen more than just the landscaping costs.
What about the board, which should oversee her spending?
Although some board members have been strongly supportive of Slade, there are still unanswered questions about the source of the money and whether she needed their approval. The regents have asked for an internal audit, and a representative from the Texas Attorney General's Office will meet with them Friday to discuss state laws on bids and contracts, three regents said.
How many people on the board received any of this money in payments for services?
How many people on the board are stealing money themselves?
For as long as I've been down here, TSU is in some kind of bizarre warp-bubble that resists reason and law, so university presidents can just smirk an "oops" and promise to pick up the tab or scum like Louis Farrakhan can claim that rabbis were dancing on rooftops at university events and people in the audience shout Hallelujah and Amen instead of protesting.
Sometimes I wonder if it's our own little Al-Quds University down on the bayou, manufacturing hate and corruption.
But you know what? It's a self-regulating system. If the university is more intersted in being a factory for corruption and evil, teaching ideology instead of job skills, then it will lose focus on education. Graduates of the university will be less competitive in the job market. The value of the diploma will go down.
In the long term, problems tend to solve themselves when the free market takes over.
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It would be easy for me to call you a nut and not provide and explanation. But for the sake of the Internet, and all the thousands of people that may read this blog, I'm going to call you a nut and explain why.
First of all, in regards to the story you are mentioning:
">http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3630014.html
what she did is no different from what hundreds of "white" presidents of most large universities do. (And yes, with a student enrollment of 11,635—it is large.) Fortunately, because those universities have large support systems in place, their university can afford to "pick up the tab" on housing. In fact, the public supports this notion because of the nature of their work.
Secondly, we have a "white" head of state that has lied, cheated, spied domestically, and tricked the American public into debt and war—and yet he is still in office. And guess what? He also is one of the capital campaign donors for Texas Southern University—so I guess the conspiracy theorists are right—perhaps he is secretly training Al-Quadi operatives in the US, under the cover of a Texas college, to cause havoc in the world so that the US can take over the world. You nut.
Thank God we have a free market system where people like you have to actually compete for a job…
But that's not what you really want. No, what you really want is your "white" privilege back (i.e., where you don't have to compete for a job with the "mud" races—it's just handed to you).
Well, buddy the world has changed. The "mud" races have bigger bank accounts, buy better cars, wear expensive clothes, enjoy beautiful houses, travel anywhere they desire, and live lavish lifestyles—unlike you. And guess what? They don't want to live where you live—your property value is too low.
Get over it. Get an education. Get a better paying job. Get a better education. Move up the corporate ladder. Get out of debt. Invest. Save. And then, just maybe, you could live the American dream too.
One day…
Posted by Bernard McDowell | February 4, 2006 7:42 AM
Posted on February 4, 2006 07:42