. . . after all the great publicity it’s been getting lately, now this.
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“VCU has removed squallor, run-down buildings…Trani has done a magnificent job!“
The north side of Broad Street, from Belvidere to Allen, used to be lined by dingy Industrial Revolution-era buildings with long-defunct loading docks fronting on Broad. Just behind those was the fabulous Carver section. My, how that stretch has changed—coffee shops galore, some neon lights, young folks walking around having fun & not harming anybody.
Anyone who thinks VCU should’ve just left the area the way it was needs to have their head examined!
VCU is an average public university, nothing more and nothing less. Perhaps, its greatest achievement is physically rescueing part of downtown Richmond from the slums of yesteryear. Along with other new State building, VCU has removed squallor, run-down buildings, increased safety, and provided a new public arena. Trani has done a magnificent job!
Issues such as Monroe’s degree and the email glitch are regular happenings across the country. Nothing new here.
We all know that VCU is in a secret cabal
to mass produce liberal intellectuals in the Marxist oriented physics department.
And the geology department is suspect since it deals with fossil records. And the geography dept teaches the world is round.
Poorly-informed sensationalism there, Bart. I haven’t gotten any such e-mail—not the first one. And I am on the server. I think that this may have happened to a few people, that’s about it.
I don’t know.
It seems like much of the publicity was pointed at Trani who is now quietly on the sidelines. Much of it also emanating from one little small town newspaper, can’t think of the name of it.
It’ll come to me in a minute.
Not sure that on the national level folks care much about VCU one way or the other. I’m not certain I’m correct on that assumption by the way.
Not certain what continued and additional VCU bashing is accomplishing either, other than venting the spleen of conservative ideology. After all, when Citizen Kaine trots out his budget this week, won’t all the colleges be feeling peckish ? My guess is they will.
They will doubtless respond by cutting back the computer budget even more and raising tuition. It’s the Richmond equation that has served us well for over 200 years:
Irresistible force + Immoveable object = everyone loses + nothing ever changes = we build another statue on Monument Avenue
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