Yes and no. The athletics pay the loan payments on the facilities, but they are gauranteed by the university. So as long as penn state football makes enough money, they pay it. But if for some reason they didn't, the college is on the hook.

Additionally a fair bit of coaching salary comes from the academics as well.

in 27/50 states, the highest paid public employee is a college football coach.

Right, and if you set up the system of elections in such a way that solving a problem makes it less likely you get elected, that problem won't get solved.

Good for him, and maybe that does give him that freedom, although it would depend on your state whether he would have that power or budget.

But that's not a solution for the whole country. Not every municipality is run by your friend.

Eh, you can't gaurantee you'll get re-elected, and the odds of that happening go way down when you dig up people's yards.

It’s bad politics to fix pipes. You won’t see any return during your term in office, and more importantly none of your voters want their yards and roads torn up for months and to have construction crews outside their homes.

It’s a real problem.

What world are you living in where you think they don't know that? Do you think they named and run the government agency that fucks them and underfunds them constantly?

Also the article states two indigineous people from B.C., so likely first nations or Metis, who do not deal with the US government and overwhelmingly do not like the term.

Go say it on the res then if you're so sure about that.

Fucking how many racist nuts do we have?

Do I? The triangular ones with the really tough shells anyways.

Many consider them so yes. Not every tribe had a chief, and many individuals and tribes consider Indian a slur.

This isn’t universal or anything, almost as though native tribes are entirely different ethnic groups spread across the entire continent.

Assuming this is the first incident anyways. If they have been talked to about it several times and continue pointedly using this phrase and other similar ones despite sensitivity training etc. it’s racist as hell and damned near harassment.

It’s not a new phrase and might not have been said with racist intent, but it’s still racist as hell.

There was a street I knew growing up that was originally called “n-word hollow”. And the old people would sometimes use that name giving directions because that’s what they always called it.

It doesn’t stop being a racist phrase because they were just giving directions.

I knew another old lady who called macadamia nuts n-word toes, is that fine and acceptable just because she means macadamia nuts? It was a common phrase for a hundred years and just means some nuts after all.