Quote Originally Posted by Atlas View Post
The saddest part for me is watching professors get budgets slashed and still try to maintain the same level of education. I have a class right now that we didn't get a syllabus in class because the department didn't have enough paper and we had to print it ourselves. Maybe if they cut the football coach's salary we'd be able to afford supplies where they are needed.
Sorry, I have problems feeling sorry for most professors. They b*tch & moan if they have to teach over three classes/year and please, don't ask them to teach any class over 30 students without a teaching assistant to do the grunt work. And, they get tenure which means "job for life." I saw very few professors who really gave a damn about the students.

Collegiate athletics are often supported through donations by big money people. That's how they excuse giving themselves big salaries because the color of money is different. However, recently an ex-college athlete "hero" was vacillating between giving $2M+ to the athletic department or to the department of his major. Since he didn't graduate, it didn't take long for him to quit vacillating and the athletic department is getting a state-of-the-art training facility.

Meanwhile you, dear student, are printing out your own syllabi.