{"id":2447,"date":"2005-06-30T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2018-02-22T14:31:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T20:31:27","slug":"keeping-out-the-undesireables-the-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/30\/keeping-out-the-undesireables-the-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Out the Undesireables &#8212; The Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor of Waukesha, Wisconsin, is against an expansion of the local University of Wisconsin (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/wauk\/jun05\/337527.asp\" target=\"_new\">Mayor backs UW-Waukesha: Lombardi wants Doyle to veto UWM merger proposal<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mayor Carol Lombardi has urged Gov. Jim Doyle to veto a plan for merging two college campuses in the Milwaukee area, saying that the move toward consolidation stems from &#8220;more politics than practical study.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lombardi also said that making the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha part of UW-Milwaukee would strain her city&#8217;s police force and other resources if the suburban campus must be expanded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gentle reader, what motivation for this position would be the least odious?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She doesn&#8217;t want the urban people who go to UWM to infect Waukesha.  Since she brings up the cost of police protection, I think this is probably her motive.\n<li>She&#8217;s holding the state up for more money, grants, and so on for her fiefdom to spend.\n<li>She doesn&#8217;t think government consolidation and efficiency are worthwhile goals if they cut into her pork.\n<li>She fears the loss of prestige for Waukesha if there&#8217;s not a University of Wisconsin-Waukesha.  Come to think of it, that&#8217;s all the prestige Waukesha might have.  In the right light.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor of Waukesha, Wisconsin, is against an expansion of the local University of Wisconsin (Mayor backs UW-Waukesha: Lombardi wants Doyle to veto UWM merger proposal): Mayor Carol Lombardi has urged Gov. Jim Doyle to veto a plan for merging two college campuses in the Milwaukee area, saying that the move toward consolidation stems from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19603,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/19603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}