I would hope that this was an opportunity for a lesson learned, then I see this:

Quote :

""He was not happy with that decision," said NCSU spokesman Mick Kulikowski. "I think his thing is that the undergraduate experience is really important, and budget cuts or no budget cuts, that has to be preserved. Plus, the fact that there's not any state money going into it anyway.""

WHY IS THIS A SECONDARY CONSIDERATION?

8/2/2009 4:49:04 PM

That's what made it so retarded.

I think the reasoning was that regardless of whether University funds were actually being used, the perception to the general public would be that the University was spending frivolously on a big trip to Ireland in the middle of hard economic times and the Easley scandal.

And apparently being afraid of how we would be 'perceived' by a general public supposedly too ignorant to get the facts on the trip was enough reason to axe the whole thing.

I know, retarded. But highlighting the ludicrousness of it all by someone going to the paper was enough to embarrass the administration into rescinding that cancellation.

[Edited on August 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM. Reason : ]

8/2/2009 5:09:32 PM

the 08 parade sucked. They aren't missing much.

8/2/2009 9:43:17 PM