Predatory Gambling Threatens University of Dallas
If sitting in front of a machine and pulling a lever or pushing a button like a cocaine rat is your idea of fun, then something called “gaming” is probably for you. The dopamine high is enhanced as you slowly lose all your money.
Face it: casinos are tacky and sad. Go into one on Thanksgiving morning and watch the forlorn push the buttons or pull the levers. Odds are—odds? yes, you can bet literally on anything now—someone is there losing their rent money.
The Sands, owned by mega GOP donor Miriam Adelson, wants to open a casino literally next door to one of the crown jewels of American higher education, the University of Dallas. My friend Patrick Fagan calls UD “the finest Catholic university in the country.”
The Sands is spending millions to get this done. According to The Dallas Morning News, “Miriam Adelson…is pumping millions of dollars into over 100 Texas lobbyists…with the hopes that they can turn the momentum in gambling’s favor.” She has spent $13 million in recent Texas primaries. You see, casinos are now illegal in Texas. And they have a target right on the forehead of the University of Dallas.
The University of Dallas is an oasis of higher learning, a core program that turns out well-formed, intellectually curious, and remarkably accomplished young people. As Catholic scholar George Weigel says, “the Dallas core curriculum—a rigorous set of required humanities courses usually spread over the first two years of college—is both the most demanding
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