<p>This thread made be seen as political, but my life has been shaped by the buses and road blocks for days now. The lake at Lynn U was filled into provide more land space. The campus, with all its tents, looks like a tent city. I am also proud of the Lynn president and its students. In past few weeks, I’ve met more political candidates than ever in my life. It has been an amazing few weeks.</p>
<p>Moderators-if this is seen as political, please omit.</p>
<p>I first became aware of Lynn U during the Haiti disaster when many of their students were trapped in a collapsed building. Sadly, some of them never made it out. I was very impressed by the leadership and sense of community portrayed by Lynn.</p>
<p>I heard your president speak today and he is very proud of the student body and thrilled with the opportunities created by hosting the debate.</p>
<p>There are many wonderful schools that don’t make it on our radar as we seek to find the correct school for our kids.</p>
<p>I’ll admit I’d never heard of Lynn U before this debate. Maybe a lot of other people haven’t heard of it either because I just tried going to their main website and it’s timing out - perhaps because it can’t handle the increased traffic to it.</p>
<p>On a side note - why are the debates at private universities? It seems that the debates by these employees of the public should be at public universities. Is it because of the cost of putting on the debate? How do they determine where the debates will be?</p>
<p>Glad - Today when the prez of Lynn was interviewed, he stated this would be well worth the $5,000,000 that Lynn had to shell out to host the debate. I see how this would be a hard pill to swallow.</p>
<p>I read that some of the students at Lynn are wearing t-shirts that say “We never heard of you, either.” :p</p>
<p>$5 Million!!! Wow. In that case, unless there’s a quick ROI somehow, I’m glad they’re being held at private Universities. </p>
<p>Fortunately for Lynn U students, it’s pretty irrelevant whether I’d heard of it before or not.</p>
<p>I would say there was 100% support behind Lynn from the community. The local elementary school and John Pope High, the library, closed school for the day, so could
host groups. More troopers than I’ve ever seen. Lots of neighbors and politicos with lemonade. Over half of the 5 M was donated. </p>
<p>Lynn is a nice choice for the average student. They push for diversity, and bring in many foreign students. They offer adult education classes. Their music program is quite good; look up Harid. I hired music teachers from there. Every student is expected to do community service. A friend’s son was given a $10,000 merit award because he had worked at Publix grocery store for years. He majored in hospitality, and had part time work all through. Lots of help for him to get through math classes. Another friend’s DD transferred there from a state college. She’s an actress, and has appeared in many TV shows, like the Glades. Anyway, nice the school got some good publicity.</p>
<p>I am a Lynn instructor and am proud of how the debate tickets available to Lynn were all given to students, by lottery, no faculty at all. They’ve done this with other events, like the Billy Joel event last winter, free tickets to all students who wanted them.</p>
<p>I worked on the debate security team, with my highlight being, meeting Gloria Steinem and Chris Matthews. What fun!</p>