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The UND hockey coach is pretty close, and the NDSU football coach is getting closer. Off the top of my head, the list is something like:

1. UND Med School dean - 575k
2. UND hockey coach - 500k
3. NDSU football coach - 400k

britrock88

08-16-2013 10:32 AM

Okay. Now have a source for ND:

INFORUM | Fargo, ND

And the top 5, in case anyone is interested:
1. UND med school surgery director- 758k
2. UND hockey coach- 650k
3. UND med school dean- 580k
4. UND med school administrator/professor- 453k
5. NDSU football coach- 367k

...We like our doctors.

Autumn

08-16-2013 11:47 AM

I feel like they made this map just because of Nevada. Ha ha.

DanGarion

08-16-2013 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by 3ric (Post 2847776)

No wonder education is so expensive.

dawgfan

08-16-2013 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by DanGarion (Post 2847816)

No wonder education is so expensive.

DanGarion

08-16-2013 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by dawgfan (Post 2847872)

Very serious.

dawgfan

08-16-2013 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by DanGarion (Post 2847899)

Very serious.

And in that case, completely wrong.

DanGarion

08-16-2013 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by dawgfan (Post 2847901)

And in that case, completely wrong.

When the highest paid public worker in every state is a school coach or official there is a problem.

dawgfan

08-16-2013 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by DanGarion (Post 2847924)

When the highest paid public worker in every state is a school coach or official there is a problem.

A) Most of those salaries are paid by boosters, not the school, so it's not actually money out of taxpayer pockets.
B) The issue with higher education cost is far, far bigger than what the highest paid coach makes. Compare the cost of new campus building construction per year vs. what the football coach is paid directly by the school - it's not even close.

claphamsa

08-16-2013 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by dawgfan (Post 2847925)

yeah, stadiums and practice fields are EXPENSIVE

JPhillips

08-16-2013 11:39 PM

There are a lot of reasons why education is so expensive, but athletic programs that are subsidized by tuition and fees are certainly part of the problem.

CU Tiger

08-16-2013 11:59 PM

In sc neither public u spends one penny of public money on the football program. In fact the football boater donates 5 mm / yr to general Ed fund at CU

Izulde

08-17-2013 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by CU Tiger (Post 2847981)

In sc neither public u spends one penny of public money on the football program. In fact the football boater donates 5 mm / yr to general Ed fund at CU

That's a bit of a red herring. Football programs are generally profitable, but the athletic departments are not for all but a handful of D-1 schools.

JPhillips

08-17-2013 08:50 AM

Yeah, I'm talking about athletic programs, not just football. According to the public data put together by USA Today, all but seven of the 228 schools they examined took some subsidy from the university. Clemson took over five milion.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/colle...ools/finances/

dawgfan

08-17-2013 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by JPhillips (Post 2847998)

Not sure about most of them, but the subsidy that Washington takes is a state-mandated subsidy for women's sports (that's what the $3M is) - in every other respect the department is self-sustaining and turns a profit (well above the Title 9 subsidy).

dawgfan

08-17-2013 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by claphamsa (Post 2847973)

yeah, stadiums and practice fields are EXPENSIVE

And those are usually paid for by donors. The schools that engage in facilities arms races are also typically the ones that A) have donors that foot all or most of the bill, and B) are ones where the stadium in question is the engine that funds 90% of the athletic department (and is thus a wise investment).

dawgfan

08-17-2013 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by JPhillips (Post 2847977)

There are a lot of reasons why education is so expensive, but athletic programs that are subsidized by tuition and fees are certainly part of the problem.

The University of Washington will be spending over $1B in 2014; they will be sending ~$3M to the athletic department by state mandate to help offset Title 9 costs. So that subsidy represents less than 0.3% of their expenses in a year.

Even if you took an institution that was spending just 25% of what the UW did while subsidizing their athletic department at ~$20M per year (the upper end of that USA Today list), that still represents just 8% of their expenses for the year. And I would bet good money such a situation is rare.

21C	08-18-2013 09:27 PM

Russian gold medalists kiss on medal stand at world championships to protest anti-gay laws

Suicane75

08-18-2013 11:36 PM

When girls do it it's not gross.

CraigSca

08-22-2013 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by 21C (Post 2848212)

Russian gold medalists kiss on medal stand at world championships to protest anti-gay laws

Ah well...

From Jennifer Vanasco at the Columbia Journalism Review:

Anyone doing a quick Google search can find the video from the event — because of course the track world championships were televised. In the video, you can see that each of the women [on the team] shared a quick, social kiss with each other in the standard European way. There was nothing romantic or political about it — it was the equivalent of a back slap, over in seconds.

Ben E Lou

08-22-2013 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by CraigSca (Post 2849053)

Ah well...

From Jennifer Vanasco at the Columbia Journalism Review:

Anyone doing a quick Google search can find the video from the event — because of course the track world championships were televised. In the video, you can see that each of the women [on the team] shared a quick, social kiss with each other in the standard European way. There was nothing romantic or political about it — it was the equivalent of a back slap, over in seconds.

Russian athletes issue angry denial of 'gay kiss' protest - CNN.com

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(CNN) -- Two Russian athletes issued angry denials Tuesday that their exchange of a kiss on the victory podium at the world championships was a protest against their country's strict new anti gay propaganda law.

Suicane75

08-22-2013 11:29 AM

Stop ruining it for me please.

Desnudo

08-23-2013 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by CraigSca (Post 2849053)

Ah well...

From Jennifer Vanasco at the Columbia Journalism Review:

Anyone doing a quick Google search can find the video from the event — because of course the track world championships were televised. In the video, you can see that each of the women [on the team] shared a quick, social kiss with each other in the standard European way. There was nothing romantic or political about it — it was the equivalent of a back slap, over in seconds.

I just need the photo and an imagination thanks.

terpkristin

08-24-2013 09:49 AM

The giant panda at the National Zoo gave birth to a cub the other day, here's the first "baby photo." Now the zookeepers will be having a dickens of a time, hoping that cub survives.

/tk

kcchief19

08-24-2013 01:12 PM

We've been following the Atlanta Zoo panda babies as well as Xiao Liwu in San Diego. Baby pandas are pretty freakin' adorable and hilarious. Hope Mei Xiang doesn't lose this one. So far so good.

Mei Xiang mated with Tian Tian at the National Zoo but also received an insemination from Gao Gao in San Diego. I really think they should have both pandas go on Maury to find the paternity results. Team Gao Gao!

claphamsa

08-24-2013 01:14 PM

no way man! DC is where the pandas breed!

terpkristin

08-25-2013 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by kcchief19 (Post 2849456)

Hahaha. They will be doing a paternity test at some point soon, according to the National Zoo website. Also according to the updates, Mei Xiang gave birth to another cub last night but it was stillborn. :( The good news is that the one that wasn't stillborn has had its first exam and things look good.

I have a special love for pandas. I hope this one makes it.

/tk

Dutch

08-25-2013 09:39 PM

INDalltheway

08-25-2013 10:40 PM

Cripes. My face hurts.

Draft Dodger

08-25-2013 11:04 PM

ouch

MacroGuru

08-26-2013 12:03 PM

Toddzilla

08-26-2013 12:35 PM

DougW

08-26-2013 04:17 PM

Easy Mac

08-27-2013 09:17 AM

My wife feels I am irrationally proud to have taken this picture this morning.

I feel it is the pinnacle of my life.

kcchief19

08-27-2013 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by terpkristin (Post 2849603)

The story around the stillbirth is pretty heart pounding. The panda team saw Mei grooming a motionless cub and heard no noise. For five minutes they thought the cub had died. Then the first cub started squaking -- Mei had tucked the first cub inside her arm where the couldn't see it when she had the second cub. She groomed it for 17 minutes before she put it down and turned back to the live cub. The panda team had to figure out what was happening, so they gave Mei some food so the could retrieve the stillborn cub and grab the live cub for a quick exam. After a few minutes, Mei got upset that her cub was gone and was yelling and standing on her hind legs. They quickly got the live cub back in her den, she picked it up and curled up in the corner to nurse it.