Re: How Should We Design UL?
Start a swimming and rowing team NOW.
Seriously, Louisiana should start a degree in Ocean Land Reclamation.
There will be tremendous research dollars spent on this.
There is an untapped precedent in what the ancestors of Cajuns did in Nova Scotia.
Another resource to kick start the program are the Dutch
Re: How Should We Design UL?
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CajunFun
It is 2027. Rising ocean levels (not man-made, of course) have caused the Mississippi to collapse an enormous sinkhole under LSU, and the entire university is gone. Fortunately no one was hurt or killed; although it was a school day, there weren't any athletic events scheduled, so no one was on campus.
At the same time, Tulane has watched the water rising around New Orleans with alarm. They have decided to move their campus to the Catskills, with the intention of reviving the Borscht Belt along the lines of Triangle Research Park in North Carolina.
Not much of the Legislature and other state officials are left. Although no one was injured in the initial LSU collapse, repeated elected officials dove into the LSU sinkhole hoping to recover at least one of the national championship trophies.
The 7 remaining Louisiana elected officials have come to UL, and have told us that we must lead the state. Our funding will increase dramatically, but we must explain how we will use our resources to actually lead Louisiana. We are charged with accomplishing these 5 things:
1) Improve all of our public colleges, and increase the college graduation in the state.
2) Improve all of K-12 education.
3) Improve the economy of the state.
4) Increase the number of innovators and entrepreneurs in Louisiana.
5) Improve arts & culture in the state.
How should we design UL? With LSU gone, should we put as much of our resources into athletics? What should be the balance among research, undergraduate education, and graduate education? What role do the arts and liberal arts play in our new goals?
And what role, exactly, do each of the preceding play in achieving our 5 charged responsibilities?
I'm investing in engineering, geology, chemistry, physics and specific climate degrees. Rob Perillo has been hired as a full-time professor.
And I'm thinking after such an incident, investment in athletics would be minimized not only locally here, but across the country. Even pro sports, as folks (especially corporate monies) are redirected more towards preventative research.
And you can say not "man-made" rising ocean levels, but you damn well know the finger would be pointed at the two of the most deaminized industries; however, folks will need to come to the reality that in 2027, hydrocarbons and petrochemicals are VERY much still in need unless we want the entire world to live in pre-1880s conditions.
Therefore, those same industry players, and they're doing it now, would use their employee brain power to figure out how to continue providing the most efficient energy sources and continue manufacturing WHILE accelerating the reduction of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.
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elected officials dove into the LSU sinkhole hoping to recover at least one of the national championship trophies
Well...Darwin's Theory and all. :)
Re: How Should We Design UL?
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
- lead the way to the energy of the future
MEDICAL SCHOOL
- lead the way to the healthcare of the future
COLLEGE OF TRADE
- lead the way in transforming education for ALL
MENS SOCCER
- embrace the next generation
Re: How Should We Design UL?
They could always fill the hole with all the LSU BS that their fans and media try and push down our throats. That, and corndogs and WalMart LSU tshirts.
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Why doesn’t Louisiana use what was done in N Scot???? Seems like such an easy deal!!!
Re: How Should We Design UL?
Journal of Historical Geology talks about land reclamation in Northern Scotland.
The angle this article takes might interest CajunFun.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...05748813001060
