re: Ole Miss Faculty and Students for Social Injustice to protest Boyce hiring

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Why should kids and perpetually offended faculty who have done their best to destroy the University decide who the next chancellor is?

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The students and faculty were never going to pick the next chancellor to begin with. I can't speak for the students, but I think most everyone connected to reality knew we were getting a conservative chancellor. The vast majority of us aren't irked over whether we got a chancellor with an R™ or a D™ next to his or her name. I could actually care less about the chancellor's politics if they are good at running a university, and I think most of us that work at them feel the same.

We're irked because this is just naked cronyism and aren't so blinded by getting a hardon about anything that pisses off our political rivals that we aren't bothered by the ethics of the situation. I was born and raised in Mississippi, so anyone who thinks I don't have any connection to the state can piss off. I'm absolutely tired of seeing high-level jobs go to people based not on their qualifications but their connections. Boyce could agree with me on everything from politics to the way a university should be run, but it doesn't change the fact that the way he was hired was just stereotypical Mississippi and shady as hell. If he's actually a great choice, he got slighted by the way this was handled as much as anyone else.