Jindal to ask to merge SUNO, UNO

Merging UNO and SUNO does little to help UNO.

As a practical matter, the state cannot simply close down large universities given the physical plant investment at those schools. Of all the state's schools, SUNO is the one that can most easily be closed.

However, were we starting over--and we are not--we would not create as many universities as we have, and we would not create any colleges that are considered black colleges and that are in enrollment overwhelmingly black and are in effect black colleges.

Black colleges certainly can serve a valuable function and certainly can be good schools. But race-based colleges--and that is what Southern and Grambling truly are--belong in the private sector.