Article: Party crasher.(Editorial)

HAVING ALREADY HEAPED lavish praise on Murphy Oil Corp. for its ground-breaking, awe-inspiring El Dorado Promise scholarship program, we almost feel guilty questioning another exciting offer made to El Dorado High School graduates who devote themselves to getting college educations. However, Henderson State University's offer to match the Murphy money when El Dorado High School graduates enroll at the Arkadelphia campus doesn't sit right.

It is one thing for a private corporation to pledge to spend its own money to improve the educational level of its hometown. It is another thing entirely for a public institution owned and subsidized by taxpayers all over the ...

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