- Audit raises questions for Episcopal Church
- Where will they stop?
- What they expect
- A DIFFERING VIEW/Why oppose reforms in ‘lower ed’?
- War with Iran
- Bush has failed our children
- Sovereignty of our nation at stake
- Vote no on all Denver bond issues
- “Ghettorize” shouldn’t have been a factor
- Bottled-water woes
A DIFFERING VIEW/Severance taxes for higher ed? Give me a break
So the Rocky thinks a portion of severance taxes should go to fund capital construction for higher education (“Colorado must redirect severance taxes,” Oct. 13)? I don’t see the return on investment.
A tourism-boosting carousel museum, infrastructure for a jobs-generating bottle plant, and time-saving road signs in Delta County are far better uses of severance tax dollars than feeding the maw of higher education.
As with the self-esteeming minds in K-12 education, higher ed is doing a bang-up job of producing claptrap and calling it Creation. The arduous curriculum in a sixth-grade primer circa 1900 from which our great grandparents learned and recite to this day can’t be found in K-12 or higher education. Even today’s English major would find it too hard!
All that cash to campuses seems to erect cement and human monuments to socialism, sports and blind bias. It also tangentially funds the MoveOn media operatives like CSU Collegian editor David McSwane — an ego incapable of self-editing. State funding to these schools should evaporate as fast as alumni gifts, especially following displays of learned stupidity. Eventually Colorado would have colleges of which to be proud, instead of embarrassed.
Kurt Overturf is a resident of Greeley.