Do as the U of M Says, not What it Does
Oh gee, the anti-military sentiment isn’t just in the student body anymore, the admin at the U of M has it too.
University of Minnesota officials on Wednesday resolved to abide by a decades old state law entitling children of fallen soldiers to free tuition at public universities.
Isn’t it a given? Why did they have to resolve to abide? It should have been a no brainer, but they had to actually think about it and consider, not doing it.
University officials were alerted to the law last spring. Minnesota has had the war orphan law since 1943, but somewhere along the way the state’s flagship school stopped honoring it.
Oh gee, do ya think it could have been somewhere back in the 70’s? Maybe as part of their solidarity with the anti-war Viet Nam protestor sickos crowd?
Now, officials say the university will pay the full tuition, but not room and board, of any military orphan who is studying for a bachelor’s degree. The tuition waiver goes into effect this fall.
Why not room and board? I do not ever want to hear the U of M or its surrogates say that the Republicans aren’t doing enough for the VA or Veterans again. If the U of M can count beans and deny room and board to fallen heroes kids, they have no leg to stand on in the debate. Unless they are using the ‘do as a I say, not as I do’ defense.
“We had somehow lost this as part of the standard university policy,” said Craig Swan, vice provost for undergraduate education. “And my best guess is that nobody used it for a number of years.”
No harm no foul, suppose. Oh well. No word yet if they will bother to check their records to see if the program was ever questioned by a fallen heroes’ kids as to why they aren’t honoring the law. Odds are that they won’t. Oh maybe this could have happened back when the U decided having that football stadium that referenced fallen soldiers was bad to have on campus.
