I'm glad the Rutgers strike is over.

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10. That is in effect, what they've been doing, but not to promote engineers.

They've declared jocks to be more important than art, music and engineering.

I should know. My son works in the arts at Rutgers. Occassionally members of the faculty break into tears as a result of the funding stress.

I object, but only because I'm not interested in young people bashing their heads into one another for a shot at entering the NFL, where they can have a short career followed by a life of pain.

Somehow I think art and music has some long term value. I'll bet more people care about what Mozart did centuries ago than the do about the score of the 1965 Rose Bowl. If someone insists that the score of Superbowl XX will prove more culturally valuable than say, the paintings of Modigliani, well I guess we have a difference of opinion.

It is true however that over the long term football will be good for the New Jersey's economy, in the sense that treatments for serious neurological disorders does generate jobs for a large array of medical type people, notably neurologists, but also nurses, pharmacists, and support staff in assisted living facilities and memory care facilities.

I have often been denigrated for a lack of enthusiasm for big money sports, but I stand by my right to do so as we steer into the apocalypse parties.