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I'm very aware of that but Tech sports is located in Blacksburg.


I'm also very aware of what's going on beyond Tech's main campus. If Tech wants to really help the state, they should focus more on rural Virginia than they are now. Tech seems to be focusing more on SW VA but not so much on economically depressed Southside Virginia and the Northern Neck/Eastern Shore. That is one of the main missions of a Land Grant institution, to provide educational and economic resources to rural communities within their state. I'm not surprised that politicians (from both political parties) do hardly anything for rural communities (because they don't get financial and political support from them like they would from the more populated areas), but it's the mission for schools like Tech to help grow rural areas. Tech and most Land Grant universities seem to be shying away from their original mission for becoming colleges in the first place.

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Posted: 09/19/2018 at 7:51PM



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