All we hear in Reno lately is, "Wah, wah, wah."
The head of UNR needs to stop whining and man up, instead of waxing ad nauseum about the devastating effects a new round of budget cuts will have on the University of Nevada.
Call me insensitive, but I call it common sense. KOH News Radio recently reported that UNR just realized they could make money by renting out empty dorm rooms in the summer. Excuse me? Any businessperson in Reno would have done that years ago... that's what you do with empty brick and mortars: you rent them! (I own three in Reno, all rented, thank you very much.)
This is what happens when left-leaning academic blowhards try to manage half a billion dollars! If potential revenue-generating dorm rooms have been sitting empty every summer, what else is UNR managing poorly with the money Nevada gives them?
UNR has a College of Business. What the heck are they teaching their students, how to beg for business? Why not task them with this challenge: Build a better business model for UNR in 2012? (Sounds like a great senior thesis... or a great competition for UNR's business majors, hint, hint.)
UNR's budget was nearly half a billion in 2008. No one mentions just how big UNR's total budget is for 2012... Reno's liberal media just laments cuts, cuts, and more cuts, totaling $100 million... but what percent do these cuts represent relative to UNR's entire budget? Even UNR's own press release fails to note their total annual budget, a glaring omission from a University that touts its Reynolds School of Journalism.
Three years ago, UNR Students for Liberty warned Glick and Reno tax payers of UNR's glut and waste, but did anyone listen? If we use the students' research numbers from 2008, a $100 million reduction would represent a 20% cut in total money to UNR. How many of us have cut our household budgets by at LEAST 20% since 2008? How many of us have had our incomes cut by 50% or more? Stop yer whining, UNR, and man up!
UNR didn't listen in 2008 when their own conservative students outed the university's glut. Too bad, because now there is no more money for us to give UNR to squander.
UNR's academic stiffs need to wake up and find a way to do more with less. Their choices will reflect UNR's ability to manage its budget successfully... or not. Every business person in Reno has been doing this since the market headed downward in 2008. Many of us are still in business, others are not. Those businesses that are still here certainly didn't whine to their cash-paying customers, "We need more money!" Instead, Reno businesspeople re-worked their companies to run more efficiently and more profitably in a down economy.
UNR's fate is not the fault of the state, the governor, or we, the taxpayers. Reno's prestigious university needs to learn how to manage their business better, period.
Stop your whining, UNR, and say, "Yes We Can!"
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