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Angeline

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Clinton and Bush Senior give USM 1.5 mil.
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Actually, the contributors to their Katrina fundraising have supplied the money, but Clinton and Bush I decided where to spend it.


http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/state/13355918.htm



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Invictus

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Actually, there are conditions attached to the BCKF grant & USM did not actually receive a $1.5M check yesterday. If I remember correctly, the grant can only be used for (1) repairs to damaged physical plant, (2) tuition refunds to students who had to withdraw due to the hurricane, and (3) ensuring that faculty are retained pending recovery of their respective programs. The institution must file a plan for disbursing funds in order to receive the money, and a report must be submitted next spring describing the disbursal of funds. Further the BCKF reserves the right to audit any institution to ensure that funds are properly handled.

USM received a pledge of $1.5M, the max for universities. Both PRCC & MGCCC received $750K, the community college max, and JCJC received a bit over $400K. Again, if I remember correctly, the institution may apply for up to 35% additional funds with appropriate justification after the initial grant has been used.

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qwerty

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given the destruction at the Gulf Coast campus and GCRL, we'll have no problem spending the 1.5 million. We need it.

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Let Freedom Ring

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Yep, ole Shelby was front and center on the dais for this announcement...sitting one person (UNO Chancellor Tim Ryan) away from George Sr......


 


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It's the truth

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This is great news. I hope it will help those displaced, who lived in and served the Gulf Coast campus area, who were abruptly moved to Pinehaven Apt. after Katrina in order to work on the Hattiesburg campus.  As far as I can tell, from the few sources I have, there are no real attempts to allow those people to return to the Gulf Coast and resume their teaching etc. there. However, a sorority village must be built soon -- given that, what are the displaced Coast faculty supposed to do?  I'd truly rejoice if some of this money would be given to them in order to deal with the many diverse and devastaing blows from Katrina

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Let Freedom Ring wrote:
Yep, ole Shelby was front and center on the dais for this announcement...sitting one person (UNO Chancellor Tim Ryan) away from George Sr......
 
No Quarter!


ABC News online today is carrying a picture of the event, Clinton, Bush I and Thames on the same stage, next to an unrelated (?) story about Clinton going to a UN climate conference.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1388820

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Reversed Priorities

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It's the truth wrote:

 However, a sorority village must be built soon
This observation warrants no comment. But it does need to be be brought out into the light of day.

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