BroadwayVik
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Why do policies among Oregon leadership forestall the aggrandizement of what is currently Portland State University? Is it a strategy akin to a tariff protection strategy? To protect the large and much older universities located down in the throat of the Willamette Valley? Aren't these two universities being, in essence, gentrified? I believe they fear that if the public university in Portland became highly attractive, the two down in the valley may become adversely affected.
Why?
Are there not family legacy connection ties? Are there not some who've decided while growing up that they prefer one of those two? Are we not in a world economy in which the attractive power of the two in the valley to full enrollment depends not on the preferences of Oregonians per se? Is it an excuse to channel the lion's share of available state funds to these two universities at the expense of the one urban-located.
I believe all this dragging of feet on the development of the public university in Portland is based on fear and unreasonable paranoia. It is based on a dark and dreary pessimism instead of a foward-looking, possibilities-seeking optimism. Optimism is always the optimum strategy. Is pessimism the kind of leadership we wish to foster?
Is being a Bozo ever really warranted?
Are there not family legacy connection ties? Are there not some who've decided while growing up that they prefer one of those two? Are we not in a world economy in which the attractive power of the two in the valley to full enrollment depends not on the preferences of Oregonians per se? Is it an excuse to channel the lion's share of available state funds to these two universities at the expense of the one urban-located.
I believe all this dragging of feet on the development of the public university in Portland is based on fear and unreasonable paranoia. It is based on a dark and dreary pessimism instead of a foward-looking, possibilities-seeking optimism. Optimism is always the optimum strategy. Is pessimism the kind of leadership we wish to foster?
Is being a Bozo ever really warranted?
