A Pall Settled Over All Of Monroe, Louisiana

Sometime after 2 PM yesterday a pall settled over all of Monroe, Louisiana, north of Forsythe Avenue, for it was at that time that the NewsStar web site reported that “Randy” Moffett the president of Southeastern Louisiana University, a 1-AA sports school with two directions in its name was named the new president of the University of Louisiana System and not Republican James Cofer, the president of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, a 1-A sports school with one direction in its name.

It seems that the board doing the selecting decided to choose the steak rather than the sizzle. That is the board selected the chief executive that had real accomplishments like an ever growing enrollment rather than the one who said during his interview yesterday his most outstanding accomplishment was changing the name of the school mascot. They decided on the executive who had done more with less than the one who had done less with more. Kudos to the board.