[Pontiac]

I have no idea if Walker actually believes professors are parasites on the Wisconsin state budget — or if he’s merely ingratiating himself to those who do. What matters is that in taking this stance he’s allied himself with the forces in American society that consider Advanced Placement history courses to be a problem rather than a plus, and who know so little about university life that they actually think professors are coddled wards of the state instead of richly educated researchers and teachers who work endless hours for modest pay and (thanks in part to slanderous statements by public figures like Scott Walker) precious little social esteem.

Yep that’s me.

Actually very few undergraduate courses are taught by professors. Most are taught by grad students that are part time and paid slave wages.

Most tenured professors teach one or two post grad classes per term.

And the real waste in the college budget is the political indoctrination courses designed to turn out Leftist political activist like women’s studies and ethnic studies.

Then there are things like rock climbing walls and other purely recreational add ons that having nothing what so ever to do with education. State colleges have expanded way beyond providing useful education at the expense of tax payers.

Their budgets should be cut to bring them back to reality. Ivy League universities should not get a penny of government money. They should be ivory towers of socialism on their own dime.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Yes, I was looking at pictures of modern dorms and comparing them to the Quonset huts and other barracks from my Army days. They looked like the Ritz Carleton in comparison.