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Showing my ignorance: I was quite surprised to find it wasn't the *only* college in Adrian, Michigan, pop. 20, 645.

Quote from: Hibush on June 30, 2025, 05:24:28 PMSiena Heights will close after the next academic year.

This school has a lot of the hallmarks leading to dire financial straits: 1000 on-campus undergrads, small town in the midwest (halfway between Toledo and Battle Creek), a Catholic legacy but no longer having the financial support. Pretty low rankings in many fields. Tried adding a lot of online students. Also added a few grad degrees (master in business and nursing) to claim to be a university.

Online course offerings...a business grad degree...a nursing degree.  Sounds like they followed the standard struggling small college playbook to the letter in trying to find ways to attract students.  It's almost like teenagers trying to assert their individualism by all following the same teen fad of the moment.  Aside from their Catholic identity, which had probably become greatly watered down over the years, they evidently didn't have much to make them stand out from the next small regional college.

Sounds like they weren't necessarily doing anything "wrong."  It was no doubt enough for many years in terms of brand identity simply to be "the Catholic school in this region."  And then it wasn't anymore, and they tried to find other things to do, and with their resources there were only a few things they could afford to try, and it was the same few things that lots of other small regional colleges in the same boat tried.

At least they've decided to close in an orderly fashion, with a year's notice given, instead of engaging in the kind of increasingly frantic and delusional fight to survive that leads to the kind of sudden middle-of-the-semester collapses that some students and employees have found themselves caught in. 

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QBwH for paella, and helluva was my second to last word. I should have gotten paella, but I probably never would have thought of helluva on my own.

LB: No solution! Middle Daughter and Grandson arrived yesterday, and I never got back to it. Too much fun chatting and splashing around in the pool. Not sure how far I'll get today, either.

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Quote from: Antiphon1 on June 30, 2025, 08:48:58 PMThere's an unfinished Crazy Horse memorial down the road from Rushmore.  Maybe DJT could use the north side of the Crazy Horse memorial since the infrastructure is already in place.  Bonus - he'd be staring down the other 4 presidents.  It's certainly practically and metaphorically appealing.
 

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They didn't copy Peron explicitly, it was more converging on similar policies from similar backgrounds.

There are multiple reasons for Argentina's unpopularity - back in the day, they were a geopolitical rival for Brazil and an existential threat to Uruguay and Paraguay. The long border with Chile and the two being the only countries present in the far south of South America also made for a persistent rivalry with Chile (which actively supported the British in the Falklands War). Argentines have a reputation for having a superiority complex stemming from back when they were rich and successful.

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QBwH for helluva. LB needed a nudge for furthermore-earwig.

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I suggest he be added to Stone Mountain, GA.

I got that bumper sticker on my car, fascism would be carrying a cross and wrapped in flag, attributed to Sinclair Lewis.  It certainly sounds like him, but the sticker was too good to pass up.

ok, you have noted some similarities between Peronism (but not necessarily Peron?) in some other countries, but I am not getting that you think any of these regimes or dictators/ authoritarian strongmen actually copied Peron explicitly or were viewed as having done so?   Coincidences, fueled by similar cultural or geographic circumstances, perhaps?

I did not know that Argentina was not well liked in LA-- why might that be?  Certainly no other country down there decided to fight on their side against the Britishers...

There's an unfinished Crazy Horse memorial down the road from Rushmore.  Maybe DJT could use the north side of the Crazy Horse memorial since the infrastructure is already in place.  Bonus - he'd be staring down the other 4 presidents.  It's certainly practically and metaphorically appealing.