It look like McDonnell's Higher Education Reform may rescind state funding to GMU and give them to UVA! That really sucks the big one! Write you State representative and demand equal rights for GMU!

Got a cite for this assertion?

Bobby probably wants GMU's prime real estate. His owners, I mean supporters, probably want to put a Booze Depot SuperStore on the site.

Got a link, Patriot? I don't doubt ya, but I would definitely think it'd make a dent on GMU's "ambitious" construction binge of late..

As a George Mason Student, I fully support this bill. Its obvious to me this school is a total waste of taxpayer money. I made a huge mistake coming here. Its an academic and intellectual wasteland. I am only a freshman and I am trying my best to get out as soon as possible. My opinion is that Bob McDonnell should privatize GMU and let the school collapse.

I just want someone to make GMU get rid of their unconstitutional policy that prohibits us from carrying firearms on campus.

General Lee Wrote:
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> I just want someone to make GMU get rid of their
> unconstitutional policy that prohibits us from
> carrying firearms on campus.

That's all schools and learning institutions, not just GMU.

West Wrote:
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> General Lee Wrote:
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> > I just want someone to make GMU get rid of
> their
> > unconstitutional policy that prohibits us from
> > carrying firearms on campus.
>
> That's all schools and learning institutions, not
> just GMU.

Umm..no, it's not. You can carry at Blue Ridge Community College in Virginia. In Utah, there is a actually a law that prohibits colleges from saying students cannot carry on campus.

Patriot Wrote:
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> It look like McDonnell's Higher Education Reform
> may rescind state funding to GMU and give them to
> UVA! That really sucks the big one! Write you
> State representative and demand equal rights for
> GMU!


Citation/details?

Fairfax should have a substantial high quality state research university. If GMU is broken fix it, or make it specialize and launch a new university in Fairfax

Its where the people are, its where the taxes come from.

Why do all my taxes go straight to Richmond and then get used to prop up the boonies?

Given Cucinelli's recent blatantly partisan attacks on any science he doesn't like, I'm suprised we have any education left in VA

GMU deserves no more handouts. Those from Fairfax (lived here 20 years or more....) would be glad to see the takeover end. Notice how everyone from Fairfax would prefer NOVA to GMU if Radford/VCU won't take them?
But go ahead and enlighten us fairfax folk who don't know no better. Ha ha!

Mason is a very good school as far as academics. Lots of high school graduates from here leave to go to Tech, UVA, JMU, CNU, ODU, and other in-state institutions while high school graduates from those areas come to GMU. Something about wanting to be far from home and out from under their parents thumbs.

GMU is not broke, but has an ultra liberal administration which brings the University down a notch. Remember the Michael Moore fiasco by giving him institutional funds to speak instead of charging tickets?

The sports program could use some out of the box thinking to obtain funds to put together a sanctioned football team.

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-top-public

UVA - #2
W&M - #6
Tech - #27
GMU - #72
VCU - #90



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We all pay for GMU to be here, I don't mind Richmond cutting them off now that they've swindled PW and Loudon county.
Not a good investment, that's what Maryland is for -- Dept. of State recruiting, right?

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GMU seems much more interested in setting up venues than in worrying about educating. They haven't really worked that closely with Fairfax to try and setup proper support structures for the campus - I mean, come on, University Mall is still very much a dump as far as a shopping center that close to the school, and when they have had opportunities to put more businesses in proximity to the school to help support their needs they have instead opted for more high-income housing.

If you look at how the campus has been setup, they still have problems just dealing with the freshmen that come in and need rooms - yet they have been building dorms for years. You'd think instead of building these nice little condo/apartment buildings they would have put up a couple of large capacity dorms to house all the new students.

If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University

This accusation is false. The Governor is not interested in pulling funding from any specific institution or from higher education as a whole. There is a funding formula that is followed for these allocations.

Registered Voter Wrote:

> If you look at how the campus has been setup, they
> still have problems just dealing with the freshmen
> that come in and need rooms - yet they have been
> building dorms for years. You'd think instead of
> building these nice little condo/apartment
> buildings they would have put up a couple of large
> capacity dorms to house all the new students.

Sadly, "botique" dorms are something that is seriously taken into account when students are looking at colleges. The days of freshmen and sophomores living in cinderblock dorms with community showers and bathroom facilities are going the way of the dinosaurs. Students want much better housing with AC/private-semiprivate bathrooms, carpeting, real beds, sinks, cable ready, wireless, etc. And there's no chance that a dining hall is going to stay open at a major university past 5-10 years from now, except at military academies. The quality and cost of their education is a secondary factor when it comes to housing/gym/nightlife, etc. Not like when I was an undergrad.