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Posted on 5/14/19 at 8:37 pm to lungbuster06
Posted on 5/14/19 at 8:37 pm to lungbuster06
When you don’t have a dog in the fight always pick the most controversial take, be as anti-Pastides as possible!
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Posted on 5/14/19 at 8:44 pm to KSGamecock
F Pastides!
Posted on 5/14/19 at 8:47 pm to wt9
Hey what’s semiconductors?
Posted on 5/14/19 at 8:56 pm to I Bleed Garnet
It’s the formal name for a guy that drives a Tractor Trailer. You know, like Custodian vs. Janitor.
Posted on 5/14/19 at 9:00 pm to lungbuster06
Now you’ve got it!!!
Posted on 5/14/19 at 11:10 pm to KSGamecock
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No worries. You got any good grandpa wisdom?
My paternal grandpa was far older (born in the early 1910s) so most of his wisdom was just folksy racism but the one piece I did hold on to was never to trust an Irishman. I’ve interpreted that as a potato lover which is why I hate Clemson so gosh darn much. They just make my skin crawl and blood boil. Damn Mic...I mean Taters.
My grandfather was a great man. Born in 1900 survived two world wars and a Great Depression.
His favorite saying was, “sometimes you gotta make a mess to fix a mess.”
It pretty much holds true with every mess in life.
Posted on 5/15/19 at 5:59 am to I Bleed Garnet
I don't know but I have a few guesses. The main one being that the General Assembly's funding of all state schools is abysmal when compared to GA or NC. The easiest way for a school to make up that shortfall is take a lot of out-of-state students, who pay much higher tuition, which both solves the money problem for the institution and takes the heat off the General Assembly. Anybody check out the demographics of Alabama and Ole Miss and you'll find the exact same thing. Their freshman classes now have almost as many out-of-state students than in-state students, and not just from Southern states. I'd imagine their state legislature's funding of colleges and universities is similar to ours.
Posted on 5/15/19 at 7:23 am to SCLibertarian
Don’t hate me but i think the state needs to work on its education
Not usc but the public schooling
Not usc but the public schooling
Posted on 5/15/19 at 9:10 am to I Bleed Garnet
Education is not the states fault. When teachers are having to be the students parents and teach them shite they should have learned at home it doesn't leave much time for actual teaching.
Everyone wants to shite on the teachers when they should be putting their foot up the parent (s) arse!
Everyone wants to shite on the teachers when they should be putting their foot up the parent (s) arse!
Posted on 5/15/19 at 4:54 pm to SOSFAN
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Education is not the states fault. When teachers are having to be the students parents and teach them shite they should have learned at home it doesn't leave much time for actual teaching.
Everyone wants to shite on the teachers when they should be putting their foot up the parent(s) asses!
Amen
And, in all fairness, the far left has tied the hands of primary school educators because there are actually bad element parents out there that want schools to be baby sitters but they want no discipline inflicted upon their children at the same time.
This actually began with the white women, white guilt progressive 2nd wave feminists women, in the sixties and seventies not wanting their little Jacks and Jills spanked. So by the late seventies, early eighties, so many school districts had been sued that corporal punishment was de facto outlawed.
Once that happened, combined with the buying of the sixties ... and our schools have taken a dive down the learning curve since.
Posted on 5/15/19 at 5:15 pm to scrooster
2nd wave feminists are great. Their anti-Trans stuff is on point. Big fan.
Posted on 5/15/19 at 5:17 pm to SCLibertarian
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I don't know but I have a few guesses. The main one being that the General Assembly's funding of all state schools is abysmal when compared to GA or NC. The easiest way for a school to make up that shortfall is take a lot of out-of-state students, who pay much higher tuition, which both solves the money problem for the institution and takes the heat off the General Assembly. Anybody check out the demographics of Alabama and Ole Miss and you'll find the exact same thing. Their freshman classes now have almost as many out-of-state students than in-state students, and not just from Southern states. I'd imagine their state legislature's funding of colleges and universities is similar to ours.
Well, a lot of that has come about for two well known and obvious reasons at the university level.
1 - Teachers Unions has driven professor salaries so high that universities had hard times paying for the good ones and, when they did, that often meant hiring very liberal progressive academia. (Everyone knows the story about how Palmetto State Armory came to be, right?)
2 - Facilities and classroom demands, palaces and unlimited research dollars.
3 - Presidents demanded more money, larger salaries for themselves and their staffs, under the guise not of being academia but rather fundraisers. Their job was not to teach the students but to raise more money to pay higher salaries and build nicer buildings.
4 - Lottos in the South were supposed to solve all of these funding problems. Instead universities simply saw the lotto money as another revenue stream and they raised tuitions even more as the Fed made student loans available .... the Fed even promoted student loads.
Just for giggles and grins here’s somethijng you may find interesting.
I’ve put three girls through school, none of them The U of SC unfortunately. One out of state to UNC, the second to C of C, the third to the University of Miami and then graduate school and then there is my Son .... he’s the baby and he’s a junior at a private college here in SC.
My youngest daughter got a full ride academic scholarship all the way through ... she is now. PhD in her particular field of study.
The oldest cost me over $160k at UNC al,let twenty years ago. I refused to pay a dime for her U.C. Berkeley years.
The second oldest got through C of C and cost me about $55k. She graduated in 2007 I think it was.
My Son is costing me about $40k a year right now.
When I went through Carolina in the early 70s tuition was $17.50 per semester hour.
Wanna know something great? Once you are over sixty, like me, you can attend USC for free basically. I went back and took some classes some years ago ... you pay a nominal registration fee.
This post was edited on 5/15/19 at 7:23 pm
Posted on 5/15/19 at 7:35 pm to I Bleed Garnet
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what’s semiconductors
Basically the materials used in computer/electronic chips.
Posted on 5/16/19 at 7:09 am to scrooster
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When I went through Carolina in the early 70s tuition was $17.50 per semester hour.
I've got you beat.
The other day at after school soccer, I was talking to the night custodian at my boy's school. He's a Sr in high school, about to graduate in a few weeks. He's currently in the "Concurrent enrollment" program where he takes both High School courses and classes at the local Community College. When he graduates, he'll only be 2 classes short of his associates degree, and he'll pick those up this summer. He'll enter the University of Utah this fall as a Jr in Business Admin.
The best part, he's paying $15 for each credit hour. In 2019.
Basically, he reduced his college expenses by 1/2 while adding two years to his lifetime earning potential...
This post was edited on 5/16/19 at 7:10 am
Posted on 5/16/19 at 9:28 am to SCLibertarian
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don't recognize my alma mater. It's filled with Yankees, we have a Presidential search that was disrupted by a loud group of SJW's and we can't beat Clemson in anything that matters. Sorry Harris, you lost me years ago.
Yeah, I wasn't a big fan of Pastides. Seemed to like to play the role, without getting the results, as Rooster said. The march of the campus to be ever further leftward is a great concern. I was a student under Sorenson, but I remember a ton of ideas openly discussed on campus, on the walls of Greene Street, and in the Russell House. I would be surprised if all views were still welcome for open discussion.
Between the SJW bullshite and canceling the presidential search at USC (what's this U of SC garbage), and the cheapening of Purdue's programs under this Purdue Global profit-seeking venture under Daniels, my two alma maters frustrate me greatly these days.
I cannot in good faith suggest my kids go to either flagship right now.
Posted on 5/16/19 at 9:33 am to RoyalAir
I don’t expect my kids to be that smart
So maybe get them into lacrosse at a young age so they can go to Johns Hopkins or Princeton
So maybe get them into lacrosse at a young age so they can go to Johns Hopkins or Princeton
Posted on 5/16/19 at 10:41 am to RoyalAir
Tell me more about the Purdue thing.
Also agree on the U of SC thing. I refuse to ever use that. That’s stupid.
Also agree on the U of SC thing. I refuse to ever use that. That’s stupid.
Posted on 5/16/19 at 1:10 pm to KSGamecock
Hater
Posted on 5/16/19 at 1:15 pm to I Bleed Garnet
Why do you call ksg a hater? The uofsc is bullshite. 84% of former students and 97.36% of sidewalk fans hate it. Seems that only people that are into hockey like it and those are weirdos anyway.
Posted on 5/16/19 at 1:39 pm to SOSFAN
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Why do you call ksg a hater? The uofsc is bullshite. 84% of former students and 97.36% of sidewalk fans hate it. Seems that only people that are into hockey like it and those are weirdos anyway.
Yea hockey is weird
I like it (UofSC) because most people hate it
This post was edited on 5/16/19 at 1:49 pm
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