The latest waste of our tuition dollars

A third "patient simulator" was purchased and 12,000 square feet on the HSC allocated to "train students in interdisciplinary medicine and communication," according to the Independent Collegian.
Apparently, there are too few real patients at the UTMC for students to learn on; and administrators no longer trust HSC students with the few real patients remaining.

“The nice thing about it is that if a patient dies in simulation, the simulation
can be rebooted,” Stobbe said. “You can’t reboot a real person.”

This quote is almost at risk of criminal negligence. If students get used to having multiple tries to get a procedure right, what is to prevent them from taking a real surgery or procedure lightly out of sheer habit?
The common patient simulator costs over $27,000 (for example "SimMan"), and that's just for the unit itself. Software and accessories are not included.
While this is a small expense ($100-200K), it is an example of how the Main Campus is put on a complete spending freeze while the Health Science Campus is permitted frivolities. Many projects on the Main Campus have been held up for several years now - I will let you fill in the blanks - with the exception of construction that was already in the 10-year construction plan. Some of this construction also exhibits the imbalance of priorities. The new business building, for instance, was only financed at the level of $1/2 a million by the individuals who got the naming rights - when usually getting the name of a building costs $20 million to start the conversation, and UT funded the rest. Nonetheless, projects such as the Ottawa River running through Main Campus has been placed on a very long-term timeline, even though it will cost no more than $3 million in total.