Laughable Gazette 'editorial' decries Toga college day

[Kasept]

It has to be a sad new low for editorial writing... The Schenectady Gazette Sunday was "shocked, shocked" and dismayed over NYRA presenting college day in September at the Spa. Going to make 'em all 'lifelong problem gamblers' don't ya know.

It's OK for the state to sanction and sell lottery tickets left and right to generations of the poverty-striken though... (And doesn't the state regulate the sale of cigarettes and alcohol too?) And the fact that there is widespread illegal football betting going on at EVERY college campus in America obviously eludes the erudite and forward-thinkers in the Electric City as well. I also understand there's also a little binge drinking problem at a lot of these higher learning establishments, but that's just a rumor.

Note the typo in the first graph. Hey, at least it gave them a chance to let you know they know what a bursar is...


Editorial: NYRA should leave college students alone
Sunday, July 19, 2009

http://www.dailygazette.com/news/200...9/719_printnt/

Teens go off to college to learn about all sorts of things — both in and out of the classroom. Gambling may be one of them, and probably one that parents and college officials wished they didn’t learn about. But thanks to twhe (sic) New York Racing Association, the odds of them doing so in the Capital Region are about to be greatly enhanced.

NYRA announced this week plans for its first-ever College Day promotion at Saratoga Race Course Sept. 4, shortly after the school year begins for a handful of area colleges. The promotion will feature raffles for prizes that include $1,000 in “tuition money” after every race. It’s a nice prize, but one we hope NYRA will award as a check made out directly to the school’s bursar, lest any of it get diverted to the $50 window on the way back to campus.

(Please go use the link for the rest of this important and remarkable piece of journalism.)