I first noted back in February 2017, and hundreds of times since then, that the University of Montana is in a "Death Spiral."
A Death Spiral is a well-known phenomenon that involves funding shortages, budget cuts to make up for those shortages, staff layoffs, more funding shortages, bad football coaches, losses caused by bad coaches, loss of revenues caused by losses, more funding shortages, having to keep around old, washed-up staffers instead of hiring the best and brightest, more shortages caused by not having the best and brightest, more layoffs, people having to read stuff like this and getting all bummed out, more budget cuts to deal with all the bummed out people who need health care, more shortages, staff cuts, you know, that sort of thing.
Anyway, now we come to find out that an actual PhD has adopted the sacred "Death Spiral" moniker:
http://missoulian.com/news/local/um-faculty-senate-discusses-death-spiral-of-looming-budget-cuts/article_07113bb4-de1a-57d1-8c31-2fa42777f7d4.html
Don't you all wish you would have paid attention the first time I noted this? That's okay, I forgive you. I'm a bigger man than you are for being so forgiving, but today is the first day of Lent, and I plan to drop a few pounds by giving up hamburger.
Where was I? Christ, I can't even remember.
A Death Spiral is a well-known phenomenon that involves funding shortages, budget cuts to make up for those shortages, staff layoffs, more funding shortages, bad football coaches, losses caused by bad coaches, loss of revenues caused by losses, more funding shortages, having to keep around old, washed-up staffers instead of hiring the best and brightest, more shortages caused by not having the best and brightest, more layoffs, people having to read stuff like this and getting all bummed out, more budget cuts to deal with all the bummed out people who need health care, more shortages, staff cuts, you know, that sort of thing.
Anyway, now we come to find out that an actual PhD has adopted the sacred "Death Spiral" moniker:
http://missoulian.com/news/local/um-faculty-senate-discusses-death-spiral-of-looming-budget-cuts/article_07113bb4-de1a-57d1-8c31-2fa42777f7d4.html
Don't you all wish you would have paid attention the first time I noted this? That's okay, I forgive you. I'm a bigger man than you are for being so forgiving, but today is the first day of Lent, and I plan to drop a few pounds by giving up hamburger.
Where was I? Christ, I can't even remember.
