# Rutgers paying Snooki $30K to speak **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rutgers-paying-snooki-30k-to-speak/576966 "2011-04-02T20:04:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rutgers-paying-snooki-30k-to-speak/576966/61 "2011-04-05T00:26:16Z")
What exactly does she do at an appearance like this? I guess I could kinda see what she might bring to a nightclub opening or something like that, but what’s her shtick when she appears before a bunch of college students? I’m baffled. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rutgers-paying-snooki-30k-to-speak/576966/62 "2011-04-05T01:00:37Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > Entertainer? So how will she provide entertainment, get drunk and sleep with some random guy? I have liquor, can I be the random guy!!! ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rutgers-paying-snooki-30k-to-speak/576966/63 "2011-04-05T01:07:34Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > Stupid Rutgers kids, could have got a couple bands _and_ a club DJ, had a real party. So…you are thinking they should have hired Pauly D instead? ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rutgers-paying-snooki-30k-to-speak/576966/64 "2011-04-05T01:21:57Z")
(I had to look that up, though I had a good guess.) No, I’m thinking that if you have _thirty freaking thousand dollars_ to spend on entertainment, you are a moron to use it to hire “Snooki.” I don’t care _what_ the skank does, I guarantee there’s plenty of ways to have a lot more fun. The Rutgers kids have laid themselves open to derisive laughter now and for all time. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rutgers-paying-snooki-30k-to-speak/576966/65 "2011-04-05T01:49:57Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > I can’t tell if you think I’m female, but I’m not. I never had a pub card, nor know what one is. Just a regular, run of the mill, fake driver’s license. No worries. I had to check both guys & gals IDs. I still have a shirt saying “The Rusty Screw Tavern: Staff” somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rutgers-paying-snooki-30k-to-speak/576966/66 "2011-04-05T12:54:57Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > No worries. I had to check both guys & gals IDs. I still have a shirt saying “The Rusty Screw Tavern: Staff” somewhere. Where was the Rusty Screw? Was in on the College Ave campus? I remember the Golden Rail and Old Queens Tavern. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rutgers-paying-snooki-30k-to-speak/576966/67 "2011-04-05T12:58:46Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > So…you are thinking they should have hired Pauly D instead? No way, I want to party down with Toni M.! ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rutgers-paying-snooki-30k-to-speak/576966/68 "2011-04-05T13:51:22Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > The Rutgers kids have laid themselves open to derisive laughter now and for all time. I still have all the respect I ever had for Rutgers…or ever will. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rutgers-paying-snooki-30k-to-speak/576966/69 "2011-04-05T13:57:23Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > Where was the Rusty Screw? Was in on the College Ave campus? I remember the Golden Rail and Old Queens Tavern. It was in the basement of the College Ave Student Center, although there was one on Busch and a smaller one on Douglass. The one on Douglass folded first, then the one on Busch. The one on College Ave was still open your freshman year, possibly your sophomore year too. FTR- Stuff Yer Face is still there & the trains still run on the tracks at Tumulty’s when the AMTRAKs go by. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rutgers-paying-snooki-30k-to-speak/576966/70 "2011-04-05T14:20:06Z")
Ha! yes, I remember now. I didn’t spend much time in the student center. I haven’t been back to New Brunswick in years, but I miss the System and Rutgers Fried Chicken… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rutgers-paying-snooki-30k-to-speak/576966.md?page=3)