Hudson and Borel: Keep whining
Recently, the Reveille published a letter from a third-year law student in which he took certain undergraduates to task for hounding Governor Jindal to deal with the budget crisis which now threatens the very existence of LSU. Stop whining, the law student said. One shudders to imagine the legal advice this student will bestow upon his aggrieved clients.
Mr. McAuliffe, the law student, forgets that the governor, no matter how exalted in his own or anyone else’s mind, is still our employee and answerable to us. The relentless pursuit by the SG president and vice-president is, therefore, completely legitimate.
Under the current dire circumstances, if I have to choose between the surrender of the law student and the whining of the undergraduates, I’ll take the undergraduates. To Mr. Hudson and Ms. Borel, keep whining. Keep getting results. Never surrender.
 
Michael F. Russo
associate librarian
member, LSUnited
Louisiana’s future is grim
Louisiana’s budget crisis is our state’s most pressing issue today. I think Governor Jindal is making a grave mistake with the cuts he has planned, particularly to LSU.
Louisiana’s truly talented students will be lost forever in an education exodus. Before he lets the guillotine fall on our future, one would hope he has talked with all the experts and exhausted all possibilities.
Well, it turns out that he hasn’t.
On the Jim Engster Show on Nov. 3, Louisiana State Treasurer John Kennedy was interviewed by the show’s host. Kennedy said that he had not spoken with Jindal in 18 months.
That’s right, folks. The man who we elected to overlook our state’s finances has not had a single conversation with Governor Jindal in 18 months.
Kennedy went on to say that he has only had conversations with Jindal’s staff members.
This just doesn’t cut it.
Louisiana’s future appears grim, lonely, and neglected, much like the portrait painted by Oliver Goldsmith in this excerpt from his poem “The Deserted Village”:
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay:
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride,
When once destroyed can never be supplied.
Peter M. Russo
LSU alumnus ‘09
French and international studies
 
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