$300,000 Federal Grant going to a religious University in my town.

[in_cog_ni_to]

My useless, piece of crap Representative, Jerry Weller, just gave Olivet Nazarene University a $300,000 Federal Grant. Have religious universities always received federal grant money? When I read this I thought my head would explode. We have a nearby town with a public school that doesn't have enough room to hold all their students and they're going to set up trailors because they don't have the funds to build a new school or to make the existing school bigger and Weller has the gall to give $300,000 to a religious, VERY WEALTHY, University? You should see this campus. They just redid the entire landscape, put in new entrance and exit with stop lights, changed the intersection where it meets the main road (really fucked up the flow of traffic) and spiffed up exterior buildings a few years ago because this is the University where the Chicago Bears practice and I guess they wanted to make a good impression? Anyway, the campus is beautiful now (I wonder where that money came from?). This $300,000 Federal Grant is for the SCIENCE dept. (what, no ID?;)) at the university. Explain this to me. How do religious universities get FEDERAL Grant money? Has this always been done? Or is this part of the new Faith-based initiative?

[For PaisAn]

1. Don't know

would guess it's part of the new Faith-based initiative. It's so wrong.

BTW, Isabelle is beautiful and angelic.

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. Thank you! She IS an angel.

:loveya:

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Well if it is any consolation,

$300,000 is really not very much. It would only buy about 3 trailers for the school district and isn't one tenth of what they would need to build a new school.

I do agree that this sucks, though. Just be glad it isn't $300 million.

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. $300,000 buys ONLY 3 freakin' trailors?! Daaaaaamn.

I would think it would be a very nice addition to a school or buy many, many more trailors than 3. :( I would much rather see the poor kids get that money for their school district than a wealthy religious university. It seems so unfair. :(

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. They run around $100K apiece

And a new school is at least several million.

Now they could hire about 8 brand new teachers for $300K. It would also buy a hell of a lot of books.