From The Telegram coverage:
1. Education minister Joan Burke:
"When those names and that selection process hits the cabinet table I want to ensure that we have the best possible selection, the best leadership that we can possibly find," said Burke.
Okay.
Define "best" and define it publicly and quickly.
If we all know what the cabinet thinks "best" means, then we might be able to figure out why it is that the board of regents Burke and her colleagues appointed and the people who run the university were suddenly struck incompetent.
Potential applicants would like to know what "best" means, especially since they now face a new and thus far secret process with secret selection criteria.
2. Undergraduate student union external affairs director Cameron Campbell:
"I think the main problem here is the lack of accountability and the lack of transparency in the process, and I think that's really the issue we have to deal with," said Cameron Campbell, MUNSU executive director of external affairs.
While Campbell's comments earlier appeared to be somewhat equivocal, this line is an indictment of a government that supposedly embodies accountability and transparency.
3. The bizarre, from the cbc.ca/nl news story user comments by someone logged on as Anthony11:
I only hope that the next time the Premier is shopping at the South Carolina Home Depot that he stays there.
Huh?
This is either completely off the wall or a clue to some sort of back story that sounds interesting.
Made only more weird if someone googled "charter flights from South Carolina to St. John's" and landed at the Bond Papers post about Miss Teen South Carolina and her concern for education. Remember Caitlin?
There's education for you and a totally freaky connection.
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