UT Raising Money Money Money!

In the Austin American Statesman has an article called "UT seeking to raise more than $2 billion." This article is about UT following in the steps of many other colleges to raise money for their school and some of the student’s attending UT. Although an amount has not yet been set, it's said that UT will try to raise between two and four billion dollars. UT is checking with donors and other sources that the school gets money from to see what a reasonable goal is. The school's last drive raised about 1.6 billion dollars last year and the money went to research, athletic buildings, and scholarships and ect. This year most of the money that UT raises is said to go towards scholarships. Many ask why UT would need to raise more money when they have a 7.2 billion dollars endowment, a 4.2 billion dollar share of the state’s permanent University fund and about 3 billion dollars in private gifts. UT Says that they are giving the money for scholarships to soften the blow of a 7.8 percent tuition increase next year and a 6.9 percent increase the following. I don’t understand this concept if the school wants to help so much with paying some of the students tuition , why don’t they just not raise tuition then they want have to try to raise money for scholarships and everyone can be happy. That's if UT really wants to help. UT plans on getting about one third to one half of the money that the school plans on raising during their quit phrase so that they can be certain that they will be able to achieve what every money amount that is set as the goal for UT.

My thoughts

A country of my own, I agree with you on the article talk about racism I also think that the man that stole the candy bar should have been punished, because if not America would be sending the signal that it’s ok to steal, if its under $2 and I agree that for doing drugs he should be punished for the same reason, but it comes a point that punishment is to harsh. How will a man learn anything if the court system put him away for life just for stealing candy and doing drugs. The only thing he would learn is just how “free” you really are as a black man in America. As for the case were the white man only got probation for murder I think that this judgment is a crock and that the judge should have been thrown off the bench. When the same judge gives a man that was on probation for stealing a candy bar, life because he is found with drugs in his body and a white man that has been in trouble with the law in the past murders someone and only gets probation, that decision screams racism.

Too much money

In the Austin American Statesman an article titled, “Youth Prisons halt overtime” is about the Texas Youth Commission spending more then half of their budget for the year in one month, September. The commission only has 1.3 million dollars to spend this year, but already in September alone have managed to spend $735,933 of it in overtime. As a result of this a team has been put together to look into why so much overtime was need in September. Some of the problems were that people were required to have 300 hours of training and another was that the computers for overtime had problems. So as of Wednesday Dimitria Pope the acting executive director of the Youth Commission has suspended overtime payments until this problem has been further looked into. Worker still work overtime, but their payments will be banked until November.
I think that this is a good article to read, because everyone in Texas would like to know were some of their money is going and when you see hear about an agency spending so much money in a small amount of time it makes you wonder what’s going on. So by reading this article you will become a little bit more informed about the Youth Commission. The one think that I didn’t like about what the Commission is doing is to have workers work overtime and then bank their money until a nothing month is not fare and it’s no right. What if the workers decided to “bank” their work time for a month, then there would be no guards and kids would be running loose everywhere.