{"id":286,"date":"2012-10-21T14:29:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T22:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2013-02-17T20:49:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T04:49:58","slug":"a-university-wastes-450000-to-stop-smoking-on-campus-people-light-up-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/10\/21\/a-university-wastes-450000-to-stop-smoking-on-campus-people-light-up-as-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"A University Wastes $450,000 to Stop Smoking on Campus; People Light-up as Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"

     A couple of years ago, the Department of Nursing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) received a Federal grant of $450,000 to push a no-smoking policy on campus.\u00a0 “Tobacco Free UNLV” ceased to exist after it blew through 98% of that money<\/a>.\u00a0 The end result?\u00a0 People are pretty much lighting-up like they used to.<\/p>\n

\"Smoke<\/a>

"I just do this to piss off Rob Reiner\u2026"<\/p><\/div>\n

     For $450,000 they could have paid for a half-dozen professors salaries, or lecturers to teach classes. That could have paid the full tuition of seventy students or enough grad students to fit inside a chemical fumehood (and trust me, that’s a lot)!<\/p>\n

     To be fare, the Federal grant money was for this specific purpose regarding Tobacco, but the sheer micromanagement of education at the Federal level is sadly quite demonstrated here.<\/p>\n

     This is just another example of how “funding for education” doesn’t really go to real education, but rather to propaganda.<\/p>\n

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