It is instructive to see who sides with the pro and anti GC views. Every progressive I read is pro GC. Those who are anti GC have been liberal or conservative or supportive of the powers that be.
With the money and prodding of the corporations, universities are getting more corporate, less democratic. Research is done at citizen expense, then given at low or no cost to the corporations, who then charge us high rates for what we paid to discover. The corps love it - more corp-directed research, less and less democracy (which is ultimatly destroyed by corporate authoritarianism). Everywhere you go, the rich are cutting benefits for the non-rich. Eg the attempt to gut Social Security and Medicare; to cut aid for vets; to make class actions harder; to make bankruptcy harder and credit card companies richer; to cut bus service; to raise property taxes on the citizen and small business and give it in TIF to big developers and corporations. The level of arrogance and lawlessness at federal and state and local levels is unprecedented. It is open class war with a vengeance. Rather than dump GC, let's dump Brunicks (he can find another university somewhere else far from here). -David Shove Roseville On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, David Brauer wrote: > On Apr 22, 2005, at 2:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > As a state land grant university supported by taxpayer dollars, the > > University of Minnesota must make General College work or have some > > alternative for > > poorly prepared Minnesota high school students with a Minneapolis > > high school > > diploma. If General College is closed with no alternative, students > > will > > flock to the downtown Minneapolis Community College. > > They already do. In fact, MCTC (Minneapolis Community and Technical > College) is the place where such students SHOULD go. > > General College made sense back when the state's community and state > colleges were not as well-developed — especially in the city. But > MCTC's quality is a strong argument for shutting GC down. MCTC is a > strong teaching institution where students can get their two-year > degrees and, if they succeed academically and want to continue their > education, go to the U for their last two years. > > I'm sympathetic to the argument that some students need an on-ramp to a > four-year degree, but I think MCTC is the better pathway than GC. > > I hope we can back away from the vituperativeness; I don't think GC > opponents are racist and no side is free of knee-jerk reactions. > > David Brauer > Kingfield > U guy for all too many years in the '80s. > > REMINDERS: > 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. > If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL > PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. > > 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > > For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn > E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls > REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
