Liars, eh? I don't think that anyone associated with NSHE, whether administrator, faculty, or student—the latter two more or less vociferously, the first in private—would deny that there's fat to be trimmed and cronyism to be stamped out. The fact remains, even if one does believe that a significant portion of resources are diverted to these ends, that taking 14 percent off the top (and leaving the specifics of what to cut to the same bureaucracy many justifiably excoriate, no less) makes no sense whatsoever if your goal is policy reform, rather than drowning government (and sound policy) in the bathtub.

Dismal stuff. As a CSN student, I can testify to the disruption these cuts have unleashed. Many students, including myself, weren't notified of the cancellations until the last minute, with predictably messy results. The seemingly clueless student government was helpfully dispensing bottles of soda to students, no doubt helping to salve the wounds of those unfortunate enough to have had their plans for life derailled.

I wonder, however, how this mess fits into the R-J editorial board's stated goal of increasing UNLV's selectivity (thus improving its standings in the USNWR rankings as cheaply as possible—quality full-time faculty are expensive and adjuncts are cheap, after all) by shunting more poor students to CSN. Of course, they've never particularly cared for the poor, so why start now?

More great work from Charlotte Hsu. Bright lights send the cockroaches scurrying about...

This is the logical outcome of electing your judicial branch, which is a staggeringly inane way to govern one's state.

"The most important project for him to complete while President is an On-Campus Football Stadium. Without UNLV will never be anything more than a mediocre university."

The expenditure of time and resources for the stadium you seek would seal UNLV's fate as a mediocre university.