Uh-oh, I’ve got mail. (Hint: LESBIAN RESEARCH)
Now, if THAT doesn’t get your attention.
Here’s a piece of mail from UNC-CH administration that — somehow — made it into our inbox:
From: Kaplan, Roger Jay <kaplan@unc.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 1, 2017 5:44 PM
To: Provost’s Committee On LGBTQ Life
Subject: Summer Grants for Students
Please share widely on your listserves!
The Provost’s Committee on LGBTQ Life has a limited amount of funding to help support UNC-Chapel Hill students with LGBTQ-related research and/or internship activities this summer (2017). To be eligible, a student must be currently enrolled (both spring and fall 2017), show evidence of the project/internship to be carried out in the summer, and be willing to participate in a fall event designed to showcase the summer experiences. Funds will be awarded in early June. Undergraduate, graduate and professional students are encouraged to apply.
To apply, please submit a one-page (maximum) statement with a brief biography and a detailed description of the research project or internship you are requesting funding for. Be sure to include an explanation of how your project/internship is LGBTQ-related.
Submit your application statement by e-mail to Roger Kaplan at kaplan@unc.edu. The application deadline is Friday, June 2.
Roger Jay Kaplan, Ph.D.
Assistant Director for Curriculum and Degree Audit
Office of the University Registrar
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 2100
SASB North Room 3112
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-2100
Phone: 919-962-0981
Fax: 919-962-3349
Oh, this produces many, many questions for us here at Haymaker HQ. How would one quantify and /or qualify 
“LGBTQ-related research”?
What exactly IS a “professional student”? (Someone who is STILL there after most of their peers have graduated in a four year period?)
How would one determine whether Student X’s project is THE most outstanding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and / or queer project or activity and is worthy of being awarded the very non-specific amount of “funds” cited in Mr. Kaplan’s email?
Is there REALLY a “Provosts’s committee on LGBTQ Life”? Where does it get its funding? What does it DO to justify its funding?
Are said “funds” taxpayer-supplied funds? Did they come from the university’s general fund or from the budget of some other government agency?
Inquiring minds want to know. (Also, is the Assistant Dean for Inclusive Excellence eligible to apply?)
Governance is lost cause at UNC-CH. The Board of Governors should immediately dismiss every one of the UNC-CH trustees. The trustees are apparently so busy enjoying all the accoutrements of their exalted positions that they pay no attention to the crazy nonsense taking place on the campus.
Honestly, don’t know much about Dan Forest as a candidate. Other than a few hot-button social issues, he seems to have been hibernating for the past eight years.
Surely, there are some active conservative candidates.
Yep, our money being spent on non-essential items. Where are those elected official with the spine to shut the funding for this type of stuff down?? Oh, yeah their elected now.
Yep, I’ve heard a rumor that Republicans are in charge of the Legislature these days, with veto-proof majorities in both chambers. I guess that was a misstatement, no? They musta meant to say “RINOs” are in charge. Real conservatives would NEVER spend taxpayer money on garbage like this. -Andy
FYI – a professional student is one that is in the law school or the medical school. Though I like your definition better