Originally Posted by
tony
Actually, it's worse than that.
NDSU: "Hey we've raised this money and we'd like to expand a program that has a proven track record and meets a definite need."
Port and his ilk: "What unmitigated gall! What insolence! Program duplication! Loud noises! Bresciani! Chapman!"
Legislature: "We're very skeptical about this. Allow us to grill you for a couple hours. Seems like it would make more sense to create a new nursing school in, say, Tioga because oil. Or, failing that, we'd much rather throw $20 million at literally any other campus in the system."
UND: "Hey we'd like $80 million to pimp our medical school."
Port and his ilk: <crickets>
Legislature: "That's crazy! You need a lot more money than that! We need more doctors and this new building is guaranteed to give us 0 more doctors per year. And if my math is right, that means each new doctor this new building produces will cost $0 because $150 million divided by zero is zero... Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP! if we say that we can divide by zero, it's the law! We are more powerful than you can possibly imagine."