I am a CSN faculty member, and have known many people by being there for a long time. On behalf of all the CSN employees that I know, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you Las Vegas Sun, for your strong support of your very tenacious reporter, Christina Littlefield, who was stonewalled and smeared by the CSN administration but persisted on digging. Without your unwavering support, today we would not have had a Pulitzer Prize winner candidate from your prestigious paper. The honor and glory belong to both Christina Littlefield, and the fertile environment you have provided at the Las Vegas Sun for true journalism to blossom.

For years Bob Gilbert had been witnessed stealing from CSN. The fabricated time cards, the student workers and the IT employees working on his house all during working hours, and truck load of materials shipped to his mansion, just to name a few that were already being widely witnessed. It took a Christina Littlefield and your newspaper, to actually put a stop to it. The crooks were actually slapped in their faces with this AG's indictment! You will never understand the degree of all of our appreciation. You have helped Nevadans save millions by stopping the stealing now, and endless amount of money for many years to come if Bob Gilbert continued getting away. You are truly the Nevadans' tribune. We, at CSN, and in Nevada, salute Christina Littlefield and the Las Vegas Sun! A million thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

The NSHE Chancellor Jim Rogers, CSN president Mike Richards, and CSN VP of Finance Patty Charlton Dayar must step down for their at a minimum incompetency and mismanagment. Shame on them. Resign!

I would just like to inform the general public that not only in this thread of comments, but also in Taz's blog, the CSN administrators have been repeatedly educated that a blog belongs to the Blogger, in this case it's Taz, who has the absolute right to decide which comment shows up in her blog, and which one doesn't.

The CSN administration has been called incompetent for the past 4 years. Does it really need to demonstrate how stupid they really are by not being able to understand that concept?

Since the CSN administration is so SUE-HAPPY (evidence from their more than 200 comments in the previous blog to threaten their bogus lawsuit, "CSN vs. the bloggers", while claiming "inexhaustable legal funds"), please go ahead and sue GOOGLE. GOOGLE set up its blogs with the comment moderation feature, to prevent spam commentors like the CSN administration. Taz didn't turn on the commente moderation, until the repeated hate-filled, same wording, big spaced messages flooded the blog, and claimed "We have destroyed this blog!"

Since this blog is where we vent against the CSN administration's wrongdoing, those systematic flooding of messages, to block viewers from comfortably reading other messages, are not from someone working in a casino kitchen.

Google's comment moderation feature has been rightfully activated by Taz, and she was thanked by all of us.

CSN administrators, you have problem with that feature, go ahead and sue Google, make yourself INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN. You obviously had not learned the right lesson from your blocking the blog last year. You are the best demonstrators of our firm belief that you are INCOMPETENT!

cluless posted this in the blog:

The perception of college teachers as finicky and peculiar seems to come across here all too well. Ms. Hsu missed the whole point about the blog being a place to vent and vet on the management style of the former president and the leadership provided by the Chancellor and his finicky political board.

Much of what the Carp did was reprehensible and unprofessional within the academic community but well tolerated by the business sector and public-at-large. We are in two different worlds it seems and they are drifting farther apart because one simply does not understand the other.

Colleges have had historical traditions in selecting presidents, deans, faculty, etc. and the report seems to take it all as poppycock lite. The press simply does not know and does not care. That is a major change in the field of current journalism which has transitioned from a profession to a job with little need for skills related to inquiry, ethics or truth. That's one of many reasons that newspapers are heading toward extinction while other venues such as this one provide alternative approaches to understanding some of the nuances that are permitted to happen in collegiate environs.

Of course, the growing amount of jocularity, poetry and vapid imnuendo do not help to sustain or develop a more polished view and professional perdspective as one might expect from collegiate-type personnel. After all, colleges are not tech schools.

I suppose printed newspapers and multipurpose colleges are both heading toward extinction for reasons quite obvious to the untrained eye. It's all happening here as a live case study.

Vahana wrote in the blog:

Part II

[D]onnadvise wrote: "CSN is a publicly owned asset of the state of Nevada. The administration of CSN is an integral part of CSN. Attempted destruction of the administration would lead to destruction of the property of the citizens of the state of Nevada." The syllogism comprised by these three sentences demonstrates faulty logic since the first two do not prove how "destruction of the administration would lead to destruction of [CSN] property." Administrators come, administrators go, and this college sails on. The only destruction of CSN property I've seen has been caused by CSN administrators, such as Bob Gilbert allegedly siphoning off CSN labor and materials for his personal use (so, I guess as Nevada taxpayers, we would have time-share rights to his Kyle Canyon ranch if this allegation were proved in court). Of course, the real destruction to NV taxpayer property being held in trust by CSN is now being perpetrated by Governor Gibbons and his rigid, pinheaded clinging to his "no new taxes" pledge. Adhering to principle, he will sink the ship of higher education, and then not even CSN administrators will have jobs and "donnadvise" will not have this ambulance to chase.

[By the way, dear RJ forum moderator, doesn't your comments policy prohibit using this space to solicit business? Since "donnadvise" isn't advertising his/her services as pro bono, one is entitled to assume that his/her two postings constitute free advertisements leading to personal gain. Should they not then be removed per your policy?]

Finally, donnadvise wrote: "The appeal will also present evidence that the blog author(s) invited use of threats of violence against targeted employees or employees’ families." Again, this point shows ignorance of established First Amendment precedent. Neither blog "invited" so-called "threats" and any so-called "threats" that appeared were not "credible" in terms defined by such precedent.

Of course, it's far easier for taxpayers to get exercised by this blog than by the budget cuts for which we all bear responsibility if we do not see that state government's current revenue stream is insufficient to meet OUR needs. One frustrated academic's blog is only a red herring that seems to be diverting us from discussing this far more vital and pressing issue.