Somebody at the Arizona Repugnant likes ASU enough to distort headline
Any story concerning a UA/ASU battle is usually newsworthy in the eyes of both bodies of students. Nonetheless, I think we can figure out which side the Arizona Republic is on.
The headline reads: UA gifts eclipsed by donations to ASU. UA basketball fans might find that surprising considering the typical number of wealthy, elderly fans in the stands at every game. Let’s give the author credit; he/she (no name) tried to make a case…
The University of Arizona’s endowments grew 18 percent for fiscal 2006.
However, Arizona State University’s gain eclipsed that of UA: up 42 percent.
But the Republic completely ignored the actual dollar figures… [emphasis added]
UA ended fiscal 2006 with $466 million in endowments, according to the Washington, D.C.-based National Association of College and University Business Officers. ASU had $394 million. Northern Arizona University’s endowment rose to $57 million.
The solution to this media bias problem is simple. Everybody stop donating to UA so that we have $0 in endowments. The administration will in turn be financially forced to fire all the liberal professors, name the Social Sciences building after Richard Mellon Scaife, and watch the endowments flow in again.
Okay, so that third sentence was implausible. Still, everybody stop donating. Then start donating as you did before, thereby forcing the Arizona Republic to report that UA endowments went up infinity percent. Media bias problem solved.
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