Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 06, 2013

May I be the first to say that I find this story arc depressing?

>> I find this story arc depressing?

It’s only the truth that hurts

By “challenging” he of course means p*obl*m*tic, the word, that dare not speak its name in management circles. Any time now they’re going to have to come up with a new word for “challenging”. “Differently parametered”, perhaps.

fire the president of walden. for profit is crap. students lose, teachers lose, and the only winners are admin and stockholders.

substitute America for Walden U and presto. the 1% know how to “sell” us out. fascinating how easy Americans are to pay for their own scamming. lol. such idiots. Marketing is such a Rigth wing scam. lol too bad American didn’t listen to Dwight Eisenhower.

as they say, “only in America” Business before People.the American Way. got to love the suckers who buy this BS. like Zipper. and the Great American Fascist/Capitalistic State we are now.

Not really. The model they’re looking at is University of Phoenix or DeVry. I don’t follow sports, but I’m pretty sure there aren’t any big-name for-profits in NCAA or other sports organizations.

masterskrain, U of F looks at return on investment and time has proven that American industry view CS skills as a commodity. While CS jobs may occasionally be high paying, the longevity of the higher paying slots is relatively short. This is disastrous on the economic well being of the CS grads, and totally destroys any ability to return $$ to their Alma Mater. U of F understands these facts.

Translation: “Changes are coming to Hogwarts.”

“I just remember thinking how stupid it was to hear about the University of Florida cutting an entire branch of Computer Sciences, and closing the lab to save $1.75 Million a year, but at the same time raising the Athletics Department Budget $2 Million a year!”University of Florida is public, not for profit university. GT is talking about Walden becoming a “for profit” school … more like DeVry, ITT or the University of Phoenix

Don’t you mean advertising?

“Instruction? We don’t need no stinkin’ instruction.”….

The football players quit regular college early to join the draft, play 4 years or so, then Walden welcomes them with open arms(as long as they have any money left).

“buy you out”? wigga, please! what they’ll do is kick you out on your naive behind.

To true. Those who can reason, are able to understand that the Great Recession came gradually, and the recovery will continue slowly. That is, if the Republicans don’t kill the recovery – their apparent intent.

Sports usually pays for the rest and itself.

In other words, your student loans are now due and payable, grants are being reduced. And you thought voting for Obama was going to help? LOL!

Quote: "You modern Progressives – or are you calling yourselves “Liberals” again this week? – either fail to perceive the hideous effects on the economy as a whole resulting from this massive systematized theft of value engineered by debauching the medium of exchange or you’re fully aware of the damage you’ve done, and are lying to evade your collective responsibility for the havoc you’ve wrought in our division-of-labor society. " Coherent English please, you may have a valid point in your posts, but it is lost in verbiage.

And just think, we could be living in Shangri-la if only we’d been smart enough to vote for Mitt! He’d have the Dow twice as high by now.

‘The Walden of the future is not the one that accepted all of you’. That’s a ‘run for cover’ line if I’ve ever heard one.

So Tucci, you think it is better to send our "High Paying Blue Collar " jobs overseas, I had one of those until 2004. We made a decent profit at our plant versus cost of goods and labor. But it WAS NOT enough for management. They closed all but one or two plants down which they converted to repackaging facilities. I worked hard all my life and came up with zilch due to the machinations of the Republican greed. I drove truck until recently and had the indignity of competing with foreign labor for scarcer and scarcer loads. I would sit in border towns a week before I could get out. What I would normally get paid a $1.50 a mile for, the foreigners would do for under a dollar. I suffered an on the job injury in August, last. I am now recuperaring from a triple lamenectomy on my lumbar. I do not forsee recovering enough to drive a truck again. Every week it is a real struggle to keep my Workman’s Compensation payments coming. About which, that system-workmans compensation- is set up in favor of the businesses. I was accussed of lying, not directly but the accusation was there. I am now approaching 62 and I pray I will be able to live on whatever dregs I can receive from all my hard work

I am also a Marine Veteran of Vietnam. For that I am extremely grateful due to the availability of the VA healthcare I can receive. I certainly cannot afford a regular practioner. I cannot afford health insurance for my wife either. I am disappointed in the Affordable Health Care Act. It did not address the issue of health in a manner beneficial to the populace.

Dr. Tucci, I have witnessed your rants now for some time. You truly espouse an Ann Randian view of people. If you were in charge, I think you would put Down Syndrome babies out for wild animals so we would not have to take care of them.

To all the rest of you, forgive me. There comes a time when this man’s BS is no longer OK. Also, others, but I haven’t seen them today.

Good day folks, I’ll be back when my blood pressure comes down.

Hang in there, JP, we’re rooting for you. (And will probably be in the same boat one of these days – I’m 63 and expect to work until I drop. If they’ll have me that long.)

Best thing to do is ignore them. They thrive on insults. When I see the names I just scroll straight past. Nothing to see here.

Considering GT’s investment in Walden as a story vehicle, I’m not too concerned about the outcome of Admin’s strategy. There’s the little matter of execution.

@tucci Unemployment rate for college grads is less than 4.5% so this nonsense of grads not being able to find jobs is just that. We have a great demand for Engineers, Mathematicians, etc. The only ones having trouble finding jobs are BFAs, MFAs and the like, but then if they have digital graphics skills or computer programming they can find jobs too.

I really do not remember mentioning Mrs. Oconner. Nor do I have an obsession with a Mrs. Oconner. What are you talking about? Did you just blow a fuse?

No whining here. I am actually on several forums promoting a more empathetic form of government. One that remembers individuals as well as the masses. If you , Tucci, do not like the masses you really may need counselling.

Thank you for the edjication, Tucci. I honestly had no idea what you were referring to.

@John Pike@Linguist

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Thank you both. And, I’ve noticed that the lengthier the troll post, the easier scrolled through. Not sure how that works, but it does. Give them nothing to react to, and they have nothing to say.

“Cruz is fearless.”-Right up there with the guys who landed at Normandy and the firefighters and cops who ran into the burning Towers.

The more we disagree with you the more virulent you get. So please, choke on your gorge and give the rest of us who want to prgress beyond the uncaring and oh so high and mighty type that you and the rest of your dinosaurs represent. You think you can beat people down with your virulent and blustering vitriol. But all you ever do is get angrier and angrier. I can just picture your face getting redder and redder. By the way, are you bald? I love to see some old baldheaded leader of the dead pecker society get all worked up. There, see, any of us can stoop to hate speech and insults. Thank God there are more and more who are beginning to see that divisive, hateful speech and acts are doing nothing more than ruining our country. And, Sir, you are one of the worst I have ever seen. I will no longer respond today, as I have better people to talk to. Good Day!!!

I nominate John Pike for mayor of the Doonesbury thread.Mr. Pike, I truly respect you.

" The Fool doth think himself wise, But the Wise Man knows himself to be the Fool ! "

-- Touchstone “As You Like It”

Lotsa garbage to ignore here today.

Liberals had nothing to do with it. The rapacious rich did. First, they sent those middle-class jobs to the badly-paying southern states. When the residents of those states wised up, the jobs got shipped overseas.

You’ll notice that the people who got really, really, rich in the last genereation were by and large not bleeding-heart liberals.

Beats me why people think stuff like this “Mrs O’Connor” drivel is cute.

@John Pike

A wise man once counseled refraining from casting your pearls before swine. The swinish mentality cannot tell the difference between offal and pearls; it just snarfs up everything indiscriminately and excretes all over the place without regard to anything worthwhile. Save your best efforts for the rest of us! As Linguist says, Do Not Feed The Troll. It only encourages him. Starve the trollish mentality and it will seek a different bridge to squat under. Oddly, this particular troll behaves himself rather acceptably on other gocomics forums.

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I can’t tell you how peaceful it is when you just scroll past the excreta.