Muddled priorities

[unixronin]

OK, so you want to become an officer in the Army.  You make it into West Point, you graduate ... and then you go to play pro football for the Detroit Lions?

Uh, no.  This is wrong, IMHO.  You volunteered, you got your way paid through West Point, you committed to serve; now it's time to serve.  You want to play pro football, you can do that after you get out.

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[novel-tharkun.livejournal.com]

I'm largely clueless on the intricacies of this, by choice.

However, I'm curious, how do they calculate expenses? I was at a school as it decided (enacted?) upon a plan to increase its sports division level and rankings with the claim that it would improve the cash flow. In the immediate lead-up, and what I saw of the enactment while I was there was a reduction in merit- and perhaps need-based academic aid, stagnation or contraction in several departments that were the school's current leaders (if I recall correctly), and degradation of communication between the general student body and the school leadership executives.

I don't know if this proved financially advantageous. But regardless of its success, I'm curious if it's part of a pattern in this argument. If so, I'd say the leadership needs to talk to their philosophy department, instead of their accounting gurus.