Louisiana students protest budget cuts

[Joanne98]

Source: The Hullabaloo

A crowd of approximately 500 students from at least eight different universities gathered Nov. 10 on the state Capitol steps in Baton Rouge, La. to protest imminent massive cuts to public higher education.

Joining in chants such as “Where’s Bobby Jindal?” and “Stand Up,” the students rallied to voice their outrage with the legislators responsible for slashing university budgets by 35 percent to make up for the state’s projected $2.42 billion budget shortfall over the next three years.

“Collectively, we are stronger than the legislature,” LSU student Ariel Gratch said. Gratch addressed the crowd of students from various public universities in Louisiana.

Sporting symbolic Band-Aids from head to toe, students waved signs ranging from the angry - “Fight back! Chop from the top!” — to the humorous — “Iff you ken reede this, thanck Bobby Jindal” — to the informative — “1,200,000,000 = LSU’s Annual Contribution to the region” — while police looked on, standing behind a coffin that read “R.I.P. Higher Education.”

Students directed much of their anger toward Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who has repeatedly said that public universities waste resources and claimed that their collective six-year graduation rate of 38 percent is “unacceptable.”



Read more: http://thehullabaloo.com/2010/11/30/louisiana-students-protest-budget-cuts/

[Courtesy Flush]

1. Graduation rate numbers can be misleading

Jindal cited low grad rates, but I've been told that students who take longer than four years to complete college (like I did) are actually counted as not graduating in the statistics.

[jwirr]

2. LA seems like an unlikely place for it to start in this country but who

knows. Good for that bunch of students.

[elleng]

3. OLD 'news,' but news nonetheless.

[happygoluckytoyou]

4. 2010 ELECTION RESULTS RIGHT HERE..... QUIT YOUR WHINING ! ! !

............... you get what you pay for ............................


Louisiana Election Results 2010: David Vitter Wins Senate Race
Posted by Aeirin Acosta on Nov 4, 2010 in International, Politics, United States • 1 comment



Republican David Vitter was re-elected as Louisiana Senator, defeating his Democratic rival, U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon.

According to international news reports, Vitter has 715,304 votes while Melancon got 476,423 votes. Vitter received about 57% of the total vote while Melancon got 38%.
“Wendy and I would like to thank you for your incredible support throughout this entire campaign. Our hard work has paid off as we have won the election, but our real task begins November 3rd. We will need to work together to prevent the spread of Washington’s liberal agenda. Again, thank you very much for all your support!,” posted in Senator David Vitter‘s website

Meanwhile, other Louisiana Election results indicate that Republicans won the House for District’s 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 while District 2 was won by Democrat Cedric Richmond.