Burlington College shutdown catches the media's attention.

[kstewart33]

From Politico, excerpts:

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ wife made a big-ticket purchase during her tenure as head of a small, private college in Vermont — and, in the end, the institution got burned.

Burlington College, which Jane Sanders ran from 2004 to 2011, will close its doors on May 27 due to financial and accrediting problems, it was announced Monday. The college has about 70 students.

Jane Sanders’ tenure as president of the tiny school in Burlington, Vt., saw it make a bold real estate purchase to replace its cramped quarters: Sanders spearheaded a deal to buy 33 acres along Lake Champlain, in hopes that the scenic property would help the college attract new students and donors. To pay for the prime lakefront land, the college used $10 million in bonds and loans, according to reports by the Burlington Free Press.

But the large expenditure didn’t pan out, Sanders resigned the following year, and her successors could not save the college from financial ruin....

Neither Sanders nor the college has said why she left, but she reportedly got a $200,000 severance package.

And last year, the college sold most of the lakefront property in a desperate bid to stave off its mounting money woes. It kept 6 acres and the main building where classes are held.

The college’s board of trustees voted Friday to close after it was notified that a $1 million line of credit would not be renewed, Moore said. College officials had succeeded in lowering debt on the campus property from more than $11 million to slightly greater than $2.2 million, but the additional line of credit was essential to continue operating said Coralee Holm, the college’s dean of operations and advancement.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/burlington-college-jane-sanders-close-223222

[Prism]

1. This is your second post on the subject

Do you have any words for the children of Libya killed by Clinton's policies. You seem to care a great deal for students earning degrees.

How much do you care about children deserving of life?

[JaneyVee]

2. Bernie voted for more wars and war funding than any candidate running.

And that doesnt even include his gun votes.

[Prism]

3. That lie comes easily to you

Have you looked at the faces of the dead? Have you bothered to care?

[JaneyVee]

6. Fact: Bernie Sanders voted for more wars, military interventions, and war funding....

Than any candidate running on both sides.

[thesquanderer]

16. That's what happens when you spend 25 years in Congress, even if mostly supporting Democrats.

But if you look at public statements about supporting various military interventions, everything Bernie was for, Hillary was for as well (if she made any position known at all), whereas the reverse is not true. No one is saying Bernie is a dove, but he is not the hawk Hillary is. And btw, funding is in a different category from the rest. Many opposed, spoke against, and voted against giving GWB the authorization to pursue the Iraq War; but once the troops were there, still voted for the funds to allow them, once there, to have the best chance of success. Once a bad decision is made, you still try to make the best of a bad situation. It's kind of a matter of not cutting off your nose to spite your face.

[kstewart33]

7. I care a great deal about students earning degrees.

I've spent my career helping students earn them.

I also care a great deal about the hypocrisy of a candidate whose record and biography has been given a free pass by the media.

While Hillary's has been sliced and diced daily, as on this forum.

[Prism]

10. So degrees bother you

But kids getting their limbs blown off, eh, not worthy of comment really.

Okedoke.

So that's where you stand.

[bettyellen]

11. Bernie is down with using drones, thinks he can do better with them....

I bet PBO thought the same.

[Prism]

12. He said we use drones carelessly

I agree. We do. We've killed too many civilians.

Have you seen their dead faces, Betty, or are those lives just message board fodder for you?

[bettyellen]

13. What is this ghoulish obsession you have with "seeing their faces" reminds me of Operation Rescue.

Fuck that "tactic", it is low.
SBS will kill people dead with drones, their faces will be equally pitiful. Be careful what you wish for.

[Prism]

14. It is only low to you

It is life and death to the people who live in fear under our tyranny.

How would you like it, if you were off in your backyard having a barbecue, looking skyward and hoping lightning didn't strike you dead on the spot? How would you enjoy an existence where you knew your family could be snuffed out with no warning? Maybe because someone in your household has the wrong name, or said hi to the wrong friends? How would you enjoy walking into the house to grab some ribs and walking back out to find your children in pieces?

That's what these people live under.

Do you care?

You really don't seem to care. You just want to score internet points *pat pat* Good for you. It's "ghoulish" only to you. That's called "everyday life" in too much of the world. If you find it ghoulish, maybe you shouldn't support it.

[bettyellen]

15. Bernie Sanders supports droning- so what the fuck is your point? You have none.

[Prism]

17. He supports stricter controls

So we're not nailing innocent families to the ground for the flimsiest of reasons under information gleaned with monetary incentive.

Did you read his position? It's pretty thorough. The fact you think they're the Same Thing tells me I don't think you did.

And what does it say about you, that you can't be bothered to spend even 20, comfortably seated on your rear as usual, seconds glancing at government policy regarding taking out random families in the Middle East?

I hope you're not feeling too moral today.

[bettyellen]

18. so he will be better at murdering innocent civilians with drones.... aww, that is nice.

[RepubliCON-Watch]

22. You should take Prism's advice here and read SBS's outlines on drone use.

It's more transparent than what PBO is doing, which is not transparent and borders war crimes.

[WhiteTara]

19. some things need many posts

[scscholar]

4. Their timing is suspicious

Someone pressuring them to do it now to help a certain candidate?

[kstewart33]

9. SCS, I don't think so because the media's prime priority is profits.

They've wanted a horserace throughout the primaries because that provides higher ratings, more clicks and more $$$.

[Starry Messenger]

5. Finally.

[pmorlan1]

8. I'll withhold judgement

about this until I hear more details. I do, however, wonder who stopped the $1 million line of credit.

College officials had succeeded in lowering debt on the campus property from more than $11 million to slightly greater than $2.2 million, but the additional line of credit was essential to continue operating said Coralee Holm, the college’s dean of operations and advancement.

[cherokeeprogressive]

20. She tried to do a good thing that didn't pan out...

And for it got less than Hillary gets for an hour of breathing.