Joisy University Pays Snooki more Than Nobel Prize Winner

[joeybee12]

If your organization had $32,000 on hand to book a speaker, would you use it all on Snooki? That's what the Rutgers University student association did. On Thursday night, the pint-sized "Jersey Shore" star was hired to speak before nearly 1,000 undergraduates, where the topics ranged from hair styling to lessons for life.

Money for Snooki's appearance came from the mandatory student activity fee.

Interesting to note, the reality TV star's $32,000 fee is $2,000 more than Rutgers' commencement speaker, Nobel-winning novelist Toni Morrison, will get when she addresses graduates this spring.

Snooki's parting advice to students: "Study hard, but party harder."

http://scoop.today.com/_news/2011/04/01/6388925-snooki-gets-32k-to-talk-hair-styling-at-rutgers

[rfranklin]

1. I am ashamed of my alma mater...

for stooping so low. It's bad enough that they have taken up football worship.

[LiberalEsto]

10. I'm an alumna too and I am disgusted

But not surprised.

Years ago the Rutgers Board of Governors threw undergraduate education to the wolves by focusing on paying big bucks to attract superstar professors. These superstars did not teach undergraduates. Their purpose was to win flashy research grants and increase the university's name recognition nationally. Big-Time Football was another wsste of money that would have been better spent on teaching.

Then they messed things up for undergrads by consolidating Livingston, Douglass, Cook and Rutgers colleges into one big anonymous mega-university. The old college system, modeled after Oxford University, allowed undergraduates a smaller environment, a sense of identify, and the opportunity to mingle with and get to know their professors. Classes were much smaller. I attended Livingston College from the year it opened, and I cannot imagine what it would be like to attend lectures with hundreds of other undergrads and never have the chance to even speak with the professors, let alone get to know them. I had a second-year English class with then-English Department Chair Richard Poirier from Rutgers College, who also edited the Partisan Review. There were maybe 20-25 students in the class, and it was an unusual opportunity to hear his remarkable insights and argue with him. I'm sure nothing like this is available to a Rutgers sophomore or junior today; maybe for a senior English major enrolled in a special seminar.

They might as well make Snooki the new Rutgers mascot.

[PoliticAverse]

2. The future foretold...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808

[marmar]

3. ............

[FSogol]

4. Great book. n/t

[hlthe2b]

5. I come from a family...

that did not suffer fools gladly.... I detest reality shows in general, am proud to say I've never seen an episode of Jersey Shores, though it would be impossible to not know their highly promoted talentless "stars."

This national fixation that promotes the ignorant and unintelligent above all else will only serve to ensure the rest of the world leaves us in their tracks. sigh....

[FSogol]

6. I'm beginning to think that "Idiocracy" is a documentary. n/t

[LeftinOH]

7. If I was a Rutgers student (or a parent), I would throw a friggin' fit. n/t

[EstimatedProphet]

8. I thought I had it bad that my student fees went to a fashion club

If I found out my fees went to pay an idiot like Snooki to give a speech, I'd transfer.

[monmouth]

9. Ann Coulter gets $20K. I guess that's fair...LOL

I should add that Coulter spoke at a college in Wyoming and was heckled...

[HughBeaumont]

11. $32,000 for someone who, 3 years ago, was nothing more than another drunk trollop at the Shore.

Oh wait . . . . she's STILL that, only a famous drunk Shore trollop. What exactly does she DO anyway?

Fucking amazing.

[joeybee12]

12. What does she do?

Keep on drinking!

[Ezlivin]

13. BUT every male in the audience gets a complimentary blow-job

And the ladies get to watch!

That's bang for the buck.

[a la izquierda]

14. Ugh, to whom do I send my diploma.

Bullshit from my alma mater.

[DavidDvorkin]

15. Entertainers always get paid more than Nobel Prize winners

Nothing new there.

[joeybee12]

16. And Snooki is an entertainer...

...how?

[DavidDvorkin]

17. She appears in an entertainment show

The qualifications for being called an entertainer are very, very low.

Moreover, she seems to be a popular entertainer.

[joeybee12]

19. Barbra Streisand is an entertainer....

Snooki is a trainwreck, thus a highly successful reality TV star.

[DavidDvorkin]

20. She's an entertainer.

[joeybee12]

21. She's entertaining to some people, but not an entertainer! nt

[PCIntern]

18. Gee, when I was in college we had

Tom Hayden, Dan Schorr, Truman Capote, Rod Serling, Jane Fonda, and others too numerous to mention. No Snooki-equivalents BUT we DID have Cheech and Chong who were OUTSTANDING!