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I’m about halfway through it right now. They discuss Stamats study, past, growth, etc.
Guests are Dr. Phil UNCC, Ben Comstock, and Mac Everett.
NO Phucking Hyphen!!!
ooooo…Dubois talks about football, name change, funding…
I HIGHLY recommend that everyone listen to this.
Dubois seemed dubious of football, but Everett quickly said it was needed before 2020. Name change was shot down from the beginning. Basically said moving to SoCon was a dumb idea. Dubois made a big deal over light rail and the uptown campus.
It does look like the football study will go ahead though,and thats great news!
Mac Everett for UNC Charlotte Overlord?
I’m just a couple of minutes in but this seems like a god interview.
also, CREDIT CARDS TO BE USED AT FOOD PLACES!!! sorry, that’s been a pet peeve of mine.
[B][I]Dubois seemed dubious[/I][/B] of football, but Everett quickly said it was needed before 2020. Name change was shot down from the beginning. Basically said moving to SoCon was a dumb idea. Dubois made a big deal over light rail and the uptown campus.It does look like the football study will go ahead though,and thats great news!
Thats just hilarious!
Dubois seemed dubious of football, but Everett quickly said it was needed before 2020.
Thats great news.
Name change was shot down from the beginning.
I can handle no name change, i want it but I can handle it. Especially if we get football, and since our athletics are “charlotte”. Having football is just that many more times we are refered to as “Charlotte” making the case for a name change that more possible, AFTER football.
Basically said moving to SoCon was a dumb idea.
Looks like someone has been reading the board :-D. For basketball it would be very stupid, for football only it would be very smart. There is no way that CAA football would fill seats like SoCon would.
Dubois made a big deal over light rail and the uptown campus.
Was Jim Black and Parks Helms named dropped? Its not Dubois job to talk about light rail, if he wants it coming through our campus then its his deal, but the other 7 miles of the line from uptown to the university area are none of his business, and he shouldnt be out there cheerleading for it. Especially when he brings up the issue of being last in funding everytime you bring up football, like its something he works 70 hours a week on.
1:21 - I feel like I’m in a grocery store with their selection of music. Helluva introduction by Mike Collins - it sounds like he’s really done his homework on the history/accomplishments of the university
1:23 - Phil Dubois (UNC-DP), Ben Comstock, and Mac Everett are in the studio with Mike Collins. Apparently, the fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse had other plans.
2:53 - Mike Collins just gave Ben Comstock an amazing introduction where he listed numerous awards that were bestowed upon him and he made the little creep sound like someone who really had a great grasp on the current state of the institution. After listing all the awards, Mike Collins casually asked, “What is the USA Today All-Academic team?” - an award Ben Comstock received. This question was just too much for poor Ben. “It is… A… Uhhh… Rec…it’s in recognition of outstanding…uhm…schollegiate (Yes, he said ‘Schollegiate’!) athle…uhm…collegiate ath.” This question is posing quite a challenge for Ben. "Students who…uhm…display not only great academics but also have…uhm…something that they’ve really contributed to their…uh…universities and their students. Mike Collins congratulated Ben and made a mental note to keep the kid away from sharp objects.
3:59 - Mike jumps into a discussion on some early history of the school in the post-World War II era. UNC-DP speaks for the first time: “It was actually, Mike, an outgrowth of Chapel Hill.”
4:57 - Mac Everett finally speaks. A good question by Mike Collins regarding whether or not it was overdue for a city like Charlotte in a state like North Carolina to have its own college. Of the three, Everett seems to be the least uncomfortable on the air. UNC-DP interrupts and mentions how common it was for a major city not to have a its own university. Really? Off the top of my head, I can’t think of many urban centers that waited as long as Charlotte for its own public university. “Metropolitan universities are really a post-war phenomenon,” added Dubois.
8:48 - Mike Collins starts up a terrific conversation about Bonnie Cone which loosens up the mood a bit, especially with Mac Everett. “…it was never about her, it was always about what was best for the university. She was always about ‘Let’s move this university forward’ but she never wanted any credit for doing that.” Mike Collins asks, “Why was it that she was able to see what the school could be if given a chance and given the right funding [I]and the right push[/I], when others, perhaps, kind of lay back and are satisfied with what it was?” Mike Collins is the man. He knows he’s in a room full of weenies and he’s going to make 'em squirm.
12:45 - The interview is going pretty well, but now Mike is getting cocky. He’s going to try to let Ben Comstock speak into the microphone for a 2nd time.
Mike: "What attracted you to this school on this campus as opposed to, God forbid I say it out loud, Chapel Hill?"
Ben: “Ah, well. I guess when it comes to Chapel Hill they only accept about 3% out-of-state so that probably was part of it.”
Way to embarrass the school, Mr. Student Body President! Goddamn it, you can’t make this stuff up. Will someone please give Mr. Comstock a baby-blue tinted diploma and send him on his merry way?
13:43 - HAHAHAHAHA!!! I HAVE A NEW HERO AND HIS NAME IS MIKE COLLINS! Please, everyone, click on the link and listen to Mike Collins make Ben Comstock look like a complete tool. Just fast forward to the 13:43 mark They are discussing Comstock’s decision to choose Charlotte:
Mike: "After 4 years, it wasn’t a mistake…"
Ben: "No. Absolutely not.
Mike: "It was a good idea"
Ben: "Best decision of my life. Bar none."
Mike: “That was a big word. That’s good”
Text does not do this justice. Mike Collins is clearly and openly mocking the idiocity that is Ben Comstock. He used “bar” in a sentence without slinging his own poo across the room and Mike is simply amazed. Classic. You’ve got to hear the audio.
16:25 - After a long commercial break, I think it occured to Mike Collins that this Ben Comstock kid is pure comedy gold. He’s going to play the straight man and let Comstock be the entertainment. It’s like when ‘shock jocks’ bring in retarded people with Tourettes for giggles.
Mike: When I went to the University of Maryland, back in the dark ages, the student government…it was radical! It was the time of the Vietnam War and other things were going on and there were protests and demonstrations and the student government guy kept getting himself arrested. … What is the big issue in student government today at UNC Charlotte?
(Pause. Let me just say that it is VERY obvious to the direction Mr. Collins is steering the interview by the way he asked the question)
Ben: I probably can actually point out one specific big issue.
(THIS IS IT! THIS IS WHAT MIKE COLLINS IS WAITING FOR! Finally, after nearly 20 minutes of inane chit-chat, he’s going to get the juicy debate he wants.
Student Body President versus the Chancellor.
Youthful School Spirit vs. Stuffed-shirt Bureaucracy.
PRO-FOOTBALL VS. ANTI-FOOTBALL
Mike Collins is ready to give the students and alumni a voice on his radio show. That voice is Ben Comstock. And that voice will be heard.)
Ben: This past semester we really lobbied hard for getting credit card infrastructure on our campus.
(WHAT?!?!)
Ben: …another thing is developing UNC Charlotte’s first honor code…
(Wait…I’m still on ‘credit card infrastructure’. Are you f****** kidding me? How about the name change - can you at least mention that?)
Ben: …providing some readily available tax forms…
(HE’S KILLIN’ ME!! HE’S F****** KILLIN’ ME!! Tax Forms? This is the big issue among students you ass-sucking barnicle? Man, he’s sweating. He’s trying so hard to justify his existence beyond a capacity of Dubois’ SGA rubber stamp and he’s failing miserably.)
Ben: …lowering some on-campus convenience store prices…
(sigh)
Ben: I’m sorry. I really probably couldn’t point out just one.
17:58 - Poor Mike Collins is trying so hard to coax the Student Body President but it isn’t working. He’s asking about issues among rank-and-file students and whether they are actively involved in giving the SGA input. Ben: “Yeah, we have comment boxes located around our campus!” Mike Collins does not want to drop the F-Bomb, but at the same time he is so ready to smack Ben upside the head with an ‘obvious’ brick. Ben thinks the big issue is convincing students that the SGA is actively helping them. “Like always, people are really into seeing quick answers to hard problems.” That sounded like a swipe at the football movement.
18:52 - Mike Collins wants to know if students feel a connection with the university. Ben Comstock feel that they do because “we just recently in the past 2 years have adopted the name ‘Niner Nation’ … That name I think has really spearheaded that desire to be a part of UNC Charlotte”. A name change did that? Wait, isn’t that a quick fix for a hard problem?
20:08 - Mike Collins is STILL trying to get something out of these people. “I ask that question because one of the keys to any organization’s success I guess is developing a sense of identity…” UNC-DP interrupts and talks about how young the school is and how the school is NOT a commuter school. Mike Collins says that he thought we were a commuter school (I love this guy!). UNC-DP thinks we need weekend activities and more entertainment to change the perception. “It only takes money,” said UNC-DP. He wants “a full agenda of items”. He is quick to mention that the city of Charlotte competes with the university for “entertainment dollars” with professional and amateur athletics.
22:12 - Mike Collins briefly mentions how he’s been hearing more about UNC-Penbroke lately.
22:29 - Ben Comstock shocks the world by agreeing with everything the chancellor said. He said that students have false perceptions of what the university is and it is his job as Student Body President to educate them on the type of school we really have. Ben believes that students have to recognize that we’re not a college town.
23:20 - Ben Comstock: “…We don’t have that college-strong identity with regard to feeling like your a true Charlotte 49er and can stay here seven days out of the week”
23:40 - ‘John’ calls in to the show like a knight in shining armor since I’m really getting depressed listening to our leaders. He mentions how there are roughly 70,000 people in the area who have a close attachment to the university and yet he can rarely find merchandise in stores. UNC-DP sites lack of demand for our merchandise, especially athletic apparal.
25:32 - Mike Collins drops the F-Bomb! “Is this school spirit, this identity within and (outside) the university, is this why universities have football teams?” UNC-DP thinks that some universities can be just as excited about their basketball programs. He think it varies based on history and regional culture. Collins keeps pressing the issue and UNC-DP admits a future “conversation” with the Board of Trustees.
26:53 - Mac Everett speaks up after a long silence. He thinks the identity of the school should be something that can cause students, faculty, and alumni to come together and he praises UNC-DP’s ability as a uniter and not a divider. The example he uses is Ben Comstock as a voting member on the Board of Trustees. The audio of Everett talking about the value of Ben Comstock’s input is an instant classic as Mike Collins is clearly stunned. Someone that Mike Collins would not even trust to pump his gas is a highly respected voting member of the Board of Trustees. Ben Comstock says he has to make sacrifices socially to play such an important role. MIKE COLLINS ZINGER ALERT - 27:36 - Ben: You’ve got to make sacrifices, socially. I mean, thankfully I have understanding friends. Mike: Thankfully you [I]have [/I]friends.
27:47 - Mike Collins brings up identity confusion with UNCCH. UNC-DP reluctantly admits that Judy Rose’s branding of ‘Charlotte’ for athletics “probably did help”.
UNC-DP: "And I’ve heard the arguments about ‘Well, let’s just change the name of the school’. I don’t think the confusion over the accomplishments of our faculty and staff are linked to the name. I think that’s just something that takes time, takes institutional marketing. It would be a huge distraction in the North Carolina system for that to occur.
Mike: "To have a new name?"
UNC-DP: "Well, just to appear to break off from the system, so to speak. We have a difficult time now making a case for the funding of UNC Charlotte within that system and in part because of the political view of “The Great State of Mecklenburg”.
Mike: "I was just going to get to that!"
UNC-DP: “We don’t need a further separation. We need a closer realization that we’re part of the system. The system matters. It has equity for our faculty across the country and so I’ve stressed with people 'Let’s not get distracted by debates over names. Let’s focus on what we actually accomplish and the reputation will follow.”
29:29 - Mike Collins says he read about funding from the state and believes Charlotte is “woefully” behind other schools in the system, particularly Chapel Hill (I LOVE this guy!) Mike says he thinks the amount Chapel Hill receives from the state is “outrageously high”. Mac Everett says he believes that Chapel Hill and NC State deserve and need the money they get and they might even deserve more! He thinks the big challege for Charlotte is student population growth. Echoed by UNC-DP. Our leaders talk about how they can use the added student population to negotiate a fairer deal for the university. Mike Collins and everyone listening to the radio are convinced that these jokers have the negotiation abilities of a frightened chihuahua.
37:00 - Enter ‘Allie’. Thank God. I’m so ready to hang myself right about now.
37:59 - UNC-DP responds to Allie’s comments on the value of the city of Charlotte to the university by complementing himself on pursuing the light rail project.
39:01 - Eerie coincidence. The $50 million uptown campus building will be 400 feet from the light rail station.
39:13 - Despite UNC-DP’s efforts to not listen to anything Allie said, Mike Collins catches that she never used ‘UNC’ when referring to the campus as ‘Charlotte’.
39:39 - Mike Collins: But I’m going to get back to this ‘UNC’ and ‘Charlotte’ thing. Because she didn’t say ‘UNC Charlotte’ she didn’t say ‘UNC Chapel Hill’. She said ‘UNC’ and ‘Charlotte’. Is that branding or an identity problem?
UNC-DP: Oh, I don’t know.
Mike Collins: Or do you (not) care?
UNC-DP: Yes. It could be. I mean, with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has a 200 year head start. It’s a wonderful institution. And we all ought to be proud of it. And frankly, we all ought to be proud to be associated with it. I think sometimes you’re judged by the company you keep. And I think there’s something to be said when our faculty come here to interview, they know they’re part of a great university system because it says ‘The University of North Carolina’ at the front end and I don’t want to give that away too quickly.
Note: At this point, I lost all will and desire to continue to listen to this garbage. This is painful. I need a break. The top quote sums up everything that is wrong. God bless Mike Collins - he’s like the Mystery Science Theater guys who try to make an awful, unwatchable horror movie a little less painful. But this is really, really bad. I can’t imagine anyone listening to this awful National Public Radio piece and commenting that they think the school is being run by competent people. If someone ever listens to this garbage and thinks highly of our leaders, do them a favor and call 911 and have them committed to a nearby mental health care facility. Beer break time.
40:33 - Mike Collins says he does not want to know if Charlotte can or cannot eclipse Chapel Hill. Instead, he wants to know if Charlotte will be [I]allowed[/I] to eclipse Chapel Hill. Nervous responses.
41:30 - Ben Comstock thinks that football discussion is only due to the overwhelming excitement over the growth of the school. Everett discussed that football should be a topic of discussion now. By discussing it now, we will be prepared to start a program for when we become a 35000 student institution in the year 2020. UNC-DP mocks the stupid Southern Conference idea proposed by Tom Sorensen for a variety of reasons. Please. No more hypothetical threads on the Southern Conference
43:15 - “The context of our study about football is gonna be 'Let’s look at the long term picture for all of our athletics and see whether or not football is something that we can afford, make sense, will build school spirit, and also not send us to the poorhouse.”
43:52 - UNC-DP says he doesn’t pay much attention to Charlotte’s rankings on university ratings.
45:48 - ‘Randy’- Class of '82 checks in and corrects the errors of the broadcast (Hyphens, History, etc.) Free the hyphen!
46:55 - Pathetic. People are kissing up to UNC-DP. Mike Collins points out that the people who are praising UNC-DP also work for him.
48:28 - An e-mail is sent to the show about alumni giving. UNC-DP thinks giving will increase at a respectable level. Ben Comstock believes that alumni giving is going to heavily increase in the coming decades because of the really strong connection current students feel with the university. Everett believes Niles Sorensen will make a difference in fundraising.
50:14 - Mike Collins wants to know how UNC-DP will make the university a better place when he leaves the position of chancellor than when he took over the position. UNC-DP says that he would be very pleased if his tenure is remembered as being 50% as effective as Woodward’s tenure.
51:50 - Mac Everett and Ben Comstock shamelessly suck up to UNC-DP
52:50 - Mike Collins mercifully ends the show, by once again breaking out in laughter at the thought of Ben Comstock as a member of the Board of Trustees.
I think my days as a university donor have officially ended with this interview.
Thanks Survivor. I didn’t know whether to laugh my ass off or cry while reading.
Is the allie who called in, the allie from our board? :biggrin:
Okay I have listened to this crap long enough, still about 10 minutes left, Dubios is an idiot (judged by his comments on this interview), Comstock isn’t helping anything at all much less taking the side of the students (he sounds like Dubois A$$kisser).
Mike Collins is the man and did a great job, but Dubois’ love fest with Crapple Hill and his continued attempts to make fun of the football movement. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE SAID IT DUBIOS, CAN YOU AND JUDY ROSE NOT UNDERSTAND THAT WE CAN’T JUST START OUT FOOTBALL IN D1-A. YOU MUST START OUT IN D1-AA, SO HOW ABOUT READING A LITTLE NCAA GUIDELINES.
OK I have to go get some coffee, this shit is killing me. While I want to laugh, I just think it’s sad we have people running this school that don’t have any idea of how to accommodate and add to the growth of this university.
50:14 - Mike Collins wants to know how UNC-DP will make the university a better place when he leaves the position of chancellor than when he took over the position. UNC-DP says that he would be very pleased if his tenure is remembered as being 50% as effective as Woodward's tenure.
I about puked when i read this.
[QUOTE=survivor45;211852]Ben: I probably can actually point out one specific big issue.
…Ben: I’m sorry. I really probably couldn’t point out just one.[/quote]
Wow, nicely done Mr. SBPrez.
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UNC-DP: "Well, just to appear to break off from the system, so to speak. We have a difficult time now making a case for the funding of UNC Charlotte within that system and in part because of the political view of “The Great State of Mecklenburg”.
Mike: “I was just going to get to that!”
UNC-DP: “We don’t need a further separation. We need a closer realization that we’re part of the system. The system matters. It has equity for our faculty across the country and so I’ve stressed with people 'Let’s not get distracted by debates over names. Let’s focus on what we actually accomplish and the reputation will follow.”[/quote]
So the system keeps us underfunded because they are afraid that we’ll get big enough and break off?
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Mike Collins and everyone listening to the radio are convinced that these jokers have the negotiation abilities of a frightened chihuahua.[/quote]
I was thinking the same thing. I like that this is going on for so long, but they are tip-toing and avoiding actual answers.
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39:39 - Mike Collins: But I’m going to get back to this ‘UNC’ and ‘Charlotte’ thing. Because she didn’t say ‘UNC Charlotte’ she didn’t say ‘UNC Chapel Hill’. She said ‘UNC’ and ‘Charlotte’. Is that branding or an identity problem?
UNC-DP: Oh, I don’t know.
Mike Collins: Or do you (not) care?[/quote]
Nice! I like mike!
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UNC-DP: Yes. It could be. I mean, with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has a 200 year head start. It’s a wonderful institution. And we all ought to be proud of it. And frankly, we all ought to be proud to be associated with it. I think sometimes you’re judged by the company you keep. And I think there’s something to be said when our faculty come here to interview, they know they’re part of a great university system because it says ‘The University of North Carolina’ at the front end …[/quote]
Didn’t he say earlier that faculty don’t hold any prestige due to that association!? 
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UNC-DP: …‘The University of North Carolina’ at the front end and I don’t want to give that away too quickly.[/quote]
He’s on the retreat a little. Showing give. “Don’t want to give that away too quickly.” That shows that he thinks we want to seperate from the system by changing the name.
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40:33 - Mike Collins says he does not want to know if Charlotte can or cannot eclipse Chapel Hill. Instead, he wants to know if Charlotte will be allowed to eclipse Chapel Hill. Nervous responses.[/quote]
I really like Mike!
There’s a difference of being modest and not paying attention Dr. Phil
Zing!
Dr. Phil also mentioned that he knows where Alumn are working in prestigious positions… So he doesn’t know where the university stands, but he knows which alumns have money.
This interview didn’t surprise me. So our Chancellor won’t address issues donating alumns and students want to know, and his puppet misplaces his backbone every time Dr. Phil is around…
My quick take.
Sadly Mac Everett seems to be the biggest advocate for the school, more so than Phil.
The SB preseident is a stammering fool. He should be impeached after that horseshit answer he gave as to why he came to Charlotte. Seriously, prepare yourself prior to coming on.
Will someone please send this to our “leaders”.
Mike Collins says he does not want to know if Charlotte can or cannot eclipse Chapel Hill. Instead, he wants to know if Charlotte will be allowed to eclipse Chapel Hill. Nervous responses.
That statement puts everything into perspective.
I like this Collins guy. We need more like him. How much longer are we stuck with Ben C, until the end of spring semester?
Am I the only one who gets the impression that Dubois hopes the football study comes back with negative results?
I think the board members (so far Bab and Everett) have been much more positive about it then the administration seems to be.
And if the study comes back positive, as it will, I expect Dubois to try to downplay the results.
He wants football, just not at the beginning of his tenure. I think he wants to retire after the first season, 10 OR 15 YEARS FROM NOW!
He wants Football to be the final crowning achievement of his time at Charlotte.
Adding to academics and funding are never bad things for the university or its leader’s reputation as an educator among his peers and the faculty.
But adding Football could ruin his personal reputation in the academic world!
Most academics hate college atheltics (especially Fbomb). If he goes ahead with football now, it could taint him with the faculty here for his entire tenure; not to metion his precious overlords in Craple Hell.
But I think Everett is more important to getting Football at this point then Dubois is, so take some hope in that.
[QUOTE=s9er;211894]My quick take.
Sadly Mac Everett seems to be the biggest advocate for the school, more so than Phil.
The SB preseident is a stammering fool. He should be impeached after that horseshit answer he gave as to why he came to Charlotte. Seriously, prepare yourself prior to coming on.[/QUOTE]
I hope Comstock knows that he’s Dubois’s little Be-actch! He
The most important issue was credit cards?!?!?!?!?!?!
Ben Comstock, Student Body Tool!
Survivor, you are the man… Thanks for cutting this to the chase (in an unbelievably humorous manner as always). I listened to the first 12 minutes yesterday but didn’t have a chance to finish it.
Mike Collins is awesome. Can we hire him to do our PR? Someone needs to do pr for us…
2:53 - Mike Collins just gave Ben Comstock an amazing introduction where he listed numerous awards that were bestowed upon him and he made the little creep sound like someone who really had a great grasp on the current state of the institution. After listing all the awards, Mike Collins casually asked, "What is the USA Today All-Academic team?" - an award Ben Comstock received. This question was just too much for poor Ben. "It is..... A..... Uhhh..... Rec...it's in recognition of outstanding.....uhm....schollegiate (Yes, he said 'Schollegiate'!) athle....uhm....collegiate ath." This question is posing quite a challenge for Ben. "Students who...uhm....display not only great academics but also have...uhm...something that they've really contributed to their....uh....universities and their students. Mike Collins congratulated Ben and made a mental note to keep the kid away from sharp objects.
LOL… I noticed this too… big time! He was probably (hopefully) just nervous because he was being broadcast over the radio… but, yeah, he sounded crazy-nervous and all discombobulated.
3:59 - Mike jumps into a discussion on some early history of the school in the post-World War II era. UNC-DP speaks for the first time: "It was actually, Mike, an outgrowth of Chapel Hill."
Well, we’re not now, so get over it Dubois. This school has NOTHING to do with Chapel Hill. Our schools receive money from the same place and that’s the end of our relationship.
Mike: "What attracted you to this school on this campus as opposed to, God forbid I say it out loud, Chapel Hill?" Ben: "Ah, well. I guess when it comes to Chapel Hill they only accept about 3% out-of-state so that probably was part of it."Way to embarrass the school, Mr. Student Body President! Goddamn it, you can’t make this stuff up. Will someone please give Mr. Comstock a baby-blue tinted diploma and send him on his merry way?
This was the worst part of the interview for me. I wanted to vomit when I heard this. He even said it sitting right next to the freakin’ Chancellor of the university. Please, people, keep this kid away from microphones and functions involving any public relations.
Ben: This past semester we really lobbied hard for getting credit card infrastructure on our campus. (WHAT?!?!) Ben: ...another thing is developing UNC Charlotte's first honor code... (Wait...I'm still on 'credit card infrastructure'. Are you f****** kidding me? How about the name change - can you at least mention that?) Ben: ...providing some readily available tax forms... (HE'S KILLIN' ME!! HE'S F****** KILLIN' ME!! Tax Forms? This is the big issue among students you ass-sucking barnicle? Man, he's sweating. He's trying so hard to justify his existence beyond a capacity of Dubois' SGA rubber stamp and he's failing miserably.) Ben: ...lowering some on-campus convenience store prices... (*sigh*) Ben: I'm sorry. I really probably couldn't point out just one.
:eek: :eek: :eek: UNBELIEVABLE. I will assume from now on, Mr. Comstock simply wanted this position to add to his resume and to gain connections, not for representing and/or leading the students and/or improving the school.
Perhaps he was told by Dubois to not bring up football… Otherwise, Ben Comstock just threw the students of UNC Charlotte under the bus. Good Lord, that’s the ONLY OBVIOUS ISSUE THERE IS… FOOTBALL.
I feel sorry for Mike Collins…
UNC-DP: "We don't need a further separation. We need a closer realization that we're part of the system. The system matters. It has equity for our faculty across the country ...
Only if the faculty deceive people by saying we’re a part of the University of North Carolina (the system) and leading them to believe we are in any way whatsoever associated with Chapel Hill (the school).
God, Dubois, quit lying and deceiving people. UNC Charlotte only gets its funding from the University of North Carolina system… oh, and they provide some administrative functions and that’s it. We have nothing to do with Chapel Hill.
What is his infatuation with them? Does he want to go work there? It sounds as if he already is…
UNC-DP: Yes. It could be. I mean, with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has a 200 year head start. It's a wonderful institution. And we all ought to be proud of it. And frankly, we all ought to be proud to be associated with it. I think sometimes you're judged by the company you keep. And I think there's something to be said when our faculty come here to interview, they know they're part of a great university system because it says 'The University of North Carolina' at the front end and I don't want to give that away too quickly.
See previous point… It’s been “given away” for a long, long time now, Dubois. Get over it and worry about OUR university for a change.
43:52 - UNC-DP says he doesn't pay much attention to Charlotte's rankings on university ratings.
… obviously.
The obvious things about this interview are that Mac Everett seems to be the only one representing our best interests, Ben C. needs to not be involved publicly for the university (not trying to put him down or anything… just my personal opinion that he is not helping the university with all this crap), Collins is my new favorite on the radio, and this university is going to remain status quo (with the exception of new buildings) and not change for a long, long time.