05-06-2022, 11:01 AM
(05-06-2022, 10:16 AM)Phogge Wrote: I get that Stanford the institution has done many things to make the world better. I've done stories on a bunch of them starting with the press frenzy re Dr. Shumway and a host of science stories with the great Stanford PR Bob Lamar. All grads should be very proud.
However another billion in the coffers seems to make a giant even fatter. A billion dollars to some JC's could go a very long way to modernizing facilities, etc. For example take the nursing program at College of Marin. We don't need more computer geeks but there is a crying need for nurses right now since we've lost many to pandemic fatigue.
On my hill the Pandora guy tried to build a 14 bedroom, 16 bathroom mansion so out of character for the neighborhood that he was stifled (and not by the planning commission). Another techie did a teardown and a rebuild that is just now entering its third year of construction. On a house!
I'm not a backer of socialism but isn't it time to close the wealth gap. Just a little.
Go Gators! We could use a billion.
And on the news this morning. CCSF struggling to stay open, plans a layoff of faculty:
https://www.ktvu.com/news/teachers-camp-...ty-college
Free Phogge!!!! And no, crimson doesn't refer to the Tide.