Arizona State Cuts 40 Programs, May Close Two Campuses

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Emperor Crow has devastated ASU. He has been concerned with creating campuses all over the Valley of the Sun rather than caretaking the major campus in Tempe and the business college on the west side of the valley. (His scheme of one university many places). He has decided that older buildings must be torn down and replaced rather than modernized. (He had a list of over 100 buildings he wanted demolished). He has tried to get the state consititution cahnged several times to meet his whims. Now that the legislature has denied him a billion dollar building program (the state budget is over 1.5 billion in the red) he is threatening draconian cuts. He has embarked on a building spree in downtown Phoenix for the nursing school, however the students then must travel to Tempe to get core classes. And don't even start talking about the land deal along Tempe Town Lake... We need Lattie Coor back.

Rice of AZ 6:25AM February 13, 2009

Take an anonymous survey of the faculty and Ph.D-level grad students and the effect Crow has had will become clear.
Any independent auditor can find where the money is or has gone.
As a nation we experienced alleged leaders whose leadership consists of "it's my way or the highway. Why would that be acceptable at ASU? We also saw how the nation's finances were ruined. Legislators and their staff are right on the scene. Why not find out what Crow's been doing under your noses?

Elizabeth Deogratias of VA 10:03PM February 12, 2009

Michael Crow is the problem, not the solution at ASU. The university has plenty of money. He wastes it on frivolous items like the installation of granite and marble flooring in a new downtown campus building that looks more like a mausoleum instead of a state funded campus. Crow invites serious litigation by systematically denying tenure to African Americans and granting it to whites. He refuses to settle EEOC cases that profesors win. He carried his bigotry from Columbia to ASU and the taxpayers are stuck with the burden. Crow was a major player in the long running discrimination case of Chichilnisky vs Columbia which settled after sixteen years. Crow was vice provost at Columbia before ASU. Arizona cannot afford Michael Crow or his brand of bigotry. I am glad the state finally has a fiscally responsible legislature. The sky won't fall just because Crow says it will.

Debra J. White of AZ 4:57PM February 12, 2009