Young’s speech praises U

Young’s speech praises U

By Chris Mumford
Published: Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Updated: Tuesday, September 1, 2009

U President Michael Young praised the U’s achievements—despite its budget cuts—to refute the argument that everything at the U is doom and gloom.

Almost 20 campus building projects totalling nearly 3 million square feet have been completed in the past five years. The ROTC standard pistol team won the national championship. And the U was listed as the third most wired college in the country.

These achievements were among the many Young cited in his State of the U address Monday in the Skaggs Biology Building. Young’s exhaustive list covered everything between the obvious progress on building projects—there are still 16 in progress in addition to those already completed—to the relatively obscure, such as the ROTC’s triumph and the chess club becoming co-winners of the 2009 Chess College of the Year Award.

The litany of achievements was intended in part to provide a counterpoint to pervasive reports of budget cuts and tuition increases hanging over the U like a dark cloud. Young wanted to emphasize the progress that has been made despite those challenges.

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