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Pearl Jam cancels North Carolina show

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Apr 18, 2016.

  1. franticscribe

    franticscribe Well-Known Member

    Clearly you didn't read the link.


     
  2. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Athletes aren't employees!

    Maybe Timmy's mom can volunteer to coach the team.
     
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  3. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

    MnSCU Board of Trustees didn't meet. This is a bunch of presidents deciding to implement policy on their own.
     
  4. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

    That was fast. MnSCU buckles and will allow teams to travel to N.C. In reality, MnSCU didn't actually enact a ban. Some posters don't understand how policy can be enacted.

    MnSCU drops North Carolina travel ban
     
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  5. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

  6. franticscribe

    franticscribe Well-Known Member

    The first sentence of the article you linked:

    Some posters don't live in reality.
     
  7. franticscribe

    franticscribe Well-Known Member

  8. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

    The MnSCU presidents don't have any power to make system-wide policy. Only the Board of Trustees and Legislature can do that. The whole thing was a dog-and-pony show that backfired when some people realized the presidents didn't ban anything. If a ban was really enacted, then there would have to be an emergency meeting to reverse it. Anyone find any reference or announcement of an emregency meeting? Get back to me once you take Policy 101.
     
  9. franticscribe

    franticscribe Well-Known Member

    The idea that university presidents can't enact travel restrictions on their own campuses is ludicrous. I'm not sure if you're hung up on this board of trustees argument because you can't admit your initial response was incorrect or if you truly believe that the individual university presidents didn't have the authority to limit travel in a way that is entirely consistent with existing system-wide policy (1B.1 if you need to look it up).

    Here's a statement straight from the university system acknowledging the presidents as a group did institute bans for their individual campuses, and that they've reversed it. But go on believing what you want to believe.

    Minnesota State - STATEMENT From: Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
     
  10. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

    I would also go as far to suggest university presidents do not have unilateral authority to change policy, dog-and-pony statements notwithstanding. My guess is even if they did have authority, the travel ban was going to cause too many problems and the presidents had to find a face-saving way out of the mess they created.

    Heck, inserting a comma in a course description is a multi-step process.
     
    Last edited: May 7, 2016
  11. franticscribe

    franticscribe Well-Known Member

    This story has heated up tremendously today.

    Gov. McCrory filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice this morning seeking a declaratory judgment that his law is not discriminatory.

    With DOJ deadline looming, McCrory files suit over HB2 :: WRAL.com

    And now it looks like the Department of Justice may respond with some kind of enforcement action:

     
  12. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Gov. Faubus, is that you?
     
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