There’s no beating the SBOHE or state legislature. The hatred for anything cass county is so strong that rednecks out west would rather vote for liberal arts grads from UND than people from the blue collar ag school. Identify politics makes for strange bedfellows…
All we can be happy about (and we should be VERY happy about) is that the governor of ND is a member of the Bison Caucus and actively looks out for NDSU.