il padrone wrote:Bond Uni?
High-brow, huh??
Actually, more recently I've heard good things about Bond Uni courses, especially business related. No longer does it seem the sole domain of on- and off-shore underachievers whose deep pocketed parents show more ambition. Several smarty pants I know have done undergrad and Masters courses there over the last 10 years because they could do so a lot quicker than elsewhere. I've also heard more recently Bond have attracted top lecturers/researchers with superior tenure and remuneration.
Nevertheless, I'd bet my last dollar Meers was never stand out student. In fact, I might just fire an email off to Bond Uni journo dept to ask how proud they are of their alumni boy.
Done
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I wanted to bring your attention to the very disturbing Gold Coast Bulletin opinion piece published here
http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/201 ... inion.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This "senior journalist" states he is an alumni of Bond Uni. I cannot believe someone with a tertiary degree could have written something so inflammatory with very real disastrous outcomes to all cyclists. This is the most sociopathic article I have seen in several years. Social media have been in a storm over this.
My point in bringing this to your attention is to hope Bond University are equally appalled, and can use its marketing prowess and influence on the Gold Coast to temper the editors of the Gold Coast Bulletin and News Limited.
I believe such views would make many intelligent parents and students seriously reconsider the Gold Coast as a safe and savory place to study.
The last thing the Gold Coast needs is for local and foreign students to be maimed or killed whilst cycling, especially after the local newspaper incited it. Australia and the Gold Coast in particular cannot afford a repeat of the atrociously managed Melbourne foreign student bashing debacle.
The publisher and its owner News Limited, are damaging the real and noble gains Bond Uni has made over the last 10-15 years as a tertiary institution of excellence. It is disturbing in the extreme to see prominent media giving expression to the views expressed by Daniel Meers.......
Yours Sincerely"