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All-In [47895]
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As some know I volunteer at Clemson Community Care. We now have a celebrity
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Feb 15, 2024, 11:31 AM
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working with us, former President Barker (a super nice guy, BTW).
Yesterday, we got talking about development on campus and I asked about the vet school. He said "hold on, I'm on the task force pulling it together (he is a architect and taught at Clemson). I have the latest drawings in my trunk."
This is going to be a totally 1st class facility with separate buildings for offices, labs, research, teaching and a state of the art equine facility. Really cool to see what is coming.
Sorry, since it's not approved in full, I couldn't get pigs (pun intended).
As usual, Clemson does it 1st class.
Made my day.
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Legend [17367]
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Its a great addition to Clemson University _ perfect fit academically.***
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Feb 15, 2024, 11:41 AM
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Would you say he is in the top 20 of Clemson Community Care volunteers?***
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Feb 15, 2024, 11:48 AM
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Heisman Winner [138248]
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Re: Would you say he is in the top 20 of Clemson Community Care volunteers?***
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Feb 15, 2024, 12:05 PM
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Yeah. The Vet School is one of the better investments the school has made.***
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Feb 15, 2024, 11:48 AM
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Oculus Spirit [97877]
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I love that man.
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Feb 15, 2024, 11:51 AM
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He allowed me to drop a class I was flunking 3 days after the last day to drop the class. He saved my GPA.
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I've been very, very, very drunk with his son.
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Feb 15, 2024, 11:53 AM
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but nothing happened, except a lot of vomit on myself.
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Lot o points [156129]
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Can you ask him a question for me please?
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Feb 15, 2024, 12:20 PM
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You can change the phrasing if you like, but in his opinion was it worth the insanely expensive building campaigns and staffing expansions and raises, and the complete alienation of a large portion of the in-state student base Clemson previously served to engage in a myopic pursuit of a US News top 20 ranking, especially given that after all these changes we are now #43 in public universities after completely transforming our university?
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All-In [27294]
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Or how effective it was to keep around people like Helms who had no
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Feb 15, 2024, 12:28 PM
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business in a leadership position of an aspirational university.
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Biggest crime there was taking her out of the classroom
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Feb 15, 2024, 1:33 PM
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best biology professor I had or worked for/with and I've been around science faculty at 10-12 different institutions of high learning
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Lot o points [156129]
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I had her for biology too and she was a good professor.
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Feb 15, 2024, 1:52 PM
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Her husband Ken (owner of Nicks) was my advisor when I was in pre-med, and it actually surprises me that he was ok with the shady stuff she pulled later.
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Re: I had her for biology too and she was a good professor.
Feb 15, 2024, 2:02 PM
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I think they split up
Maybe that flipped her out
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I think he was the first man I ever met
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Feb 15, 2024, 2:05 PM
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With a hyphenated last name
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Re: I think he was the first man I ever met
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Feb 15, 2024, 2:15 PM
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Ken Revis-Wagner. Good dude. Kooky fella, but good dude.
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Yes I was trying to not say his name
Feb 15, 2024, 2:17 PM
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But yes.
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Re: Yes I was trying to not say his name
Feb 15, 2024, 2:23 PM
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He wrote me a letter for my med school application. He must have had pee tapes of MUSC admissions people, there was a Clemson to MUSC pipeline for a long long time
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Lot o points [156129]
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Med school applications were hurting so bad in the 90s
Feb 15, 2024, 2:26 PM
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That with my SAT score (which was pretty good), if I had gotten a 3.5 my freshman year in pre-med, I would have had guaranteed MUSC acceptance upon graduating.
Short version of the story, I didn’t.
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Oculus Spirit [81306]
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All my friends were on "academic probation" too.
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Feb 15, 2024, 2:33 PM
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I just thought that was normal.
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Hey man
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Feb 15, 2024, 1:13 PM
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If he wants to invent new pointless admin jobs and give them to his daughter in law at the expense of students' tuition, what's wrong with that?
For real fun, go read up on what happened to the CFO who tried to push back against all this and how much of a raise his successor got for playing ball.
Oooooorrr...
"Hey, Almeda, we need you to come back as interim VP of student affairs because this Tucker Hipps frat death thing is a mess. We'll pay you $200k."
AJ: "Okay, I'll do that for a year. What if I decide I want to come back out of retirement the next year and take my old job back full time?"
Barker: "$275k a year!"
(Yep, those numbers are on the books)
Too soon?
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Let's not forget the real corruption of Barker ghana let VT run down the
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Feb 15, 2024, 1:17 PM
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I still can't believe he put his name on that memo.
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Feb 15, 2024, 1:35 PM
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What even was he thinking?
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Oculus Spirit [79304]
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Re: As some know I volunteer at Clemson Community Care. We now have a celebrity
Feb 15, 2024, 1:45 PM
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President Barker is still the GOAT. This new cat is #notmypresident
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Oculus Spirit [81306]
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"new" He's been there 10 years now***
Feb 15, 2024, 1:48 PM
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Re: Thumbs down***
Feb 15, 2024, 1:58 PM
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Top 25, we did it.
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The goal was top 20
Feb 15, 2024, 2:22 PM
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We got it one year—-2015
We are 43 now.
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Yep, we did.
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Feb 15, 2024, 2:49 PM
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Now our admin has exorbitant salaries as a result and students are paying way, way too much for attending. Clemson's price increase was well over the national average and was orchestrated to give a false image of prestige.
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