The calls hindered the Spartans and negated their typically aggressive style. After getting whistled for a foul in the second half, guard Korie Lucious simply raised his arms in frustration. Bogged down with key players on the bench all night, the
Spartans failed to find an offensive rhythm in a 52-50 loss to
Butler on Saturday in the Final Four. |
The Bulldogs outscored Michigan State 17-10 at the free throw
line to advance to the national championship game on Monday
might. |
``We didn't get it done,'' Spartans coach Tom Izzo said. ``I
thought the physical play bothered us - that surprised me.'' |
Raymar Morgan , Michigan State's second-leading scorer, played
just 23 minutes and finished with four points and four fouls. |
Morgan committed his fourth with 12:38 to play and Delvon Roe
did the same with 2:23 remaining. Draymond Green fouled out with
6.1 seconds left. |
``We just had some guys who didn't play much,'' Izzo said. |
The fact that Izzo got Michigan State so far was surprising,
considering all the Spartans went through this season. |
But after pulling out a string of close games to get to
Indianapolis, the Spartans couldn't do it again - and all those
fouls were a big reason why. Read more at msn.foxsports.com |
Currently, the state of California funds community colleges through a dysfunctional system which punishes colleges for offering more expensive—but crucial—courses that will train the next generation of environmentally-sensitive professional technicians.
But does the state give extra funds to help a college offer the more expensive Auto Tech class that requires extra funds to operate?
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It didn’t make sense for Sierra College, who almost voted to send its expensive auto tech program into extinction. Why? Financially, the state offers no incentive for community colleges to continue offering courses which cost more to operate than core classes like English or math.
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Therefore, a college deciding to offer an auto tech class, does so at a financial loss. In a sense, it is punished for offering an essential course, due to its being burdened with added expense, without added funding.
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Cutting courses like auto tech, green tech and other programs that require more expense to offer, harms society in the long run, as the new workforce would be untrained to take on these jobs that maintain our infrastructure.
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So why does state funding reward social irresponsibility?
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Everyone saw this coming: Prestigious colleges and universities received record numbers of applications for the Class of 2014. So, logically, acceptance rates were expected to drop. Congrats, you were right. Today is the deadline for most admissions departments to let students know if they got in or not. That also means a flood of admissions data. Sigh. Here's the scorecard so far: |
| Harvard College, Down to 6.9% |
| Harvard received more than 30,000 applications this year, a 5 percent increase from last year. From that pool, they accepted 2,110 students. So, that puts their overall rate of admission at 6.9 percent, a slight drop from last year's 7 percent. |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Down to 9.7% |
| For the first time ever, MIT dipped to a single-digit acceptance rate. |
| Stanford University, Down to 7.2% |
| Dartmouth College, Down to 11.5% |
| down from 12.5 percent last year. |
| University of Pennsylvania, Down to 14.2% |
| a drop from last year's 17.1 percent |
| Cornell University, Down to 18% |
| down from last year's 19 percent |
| Duke University, Down to 14.8% |
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