The students are charged an activity fee because more and more students are choosing colleges based on the housing situations, the dorm life and the campus layout than on the academics. Colleges have found it useful to create a slush fund at the disposal of the student body to pay for various activities throughout the year. What the student body does with that money, the campus doesn’t care about as long as it’s not breaking any student handbook rules.
Who am I to point fingers? When I was in college, we paid Gallagher to come perform at our school.
I know. And maybe my response was over the top.
(You try & rhyme ‘Raritan’) :eek:
If what I wrote was offensive or over the top, I’m sorry. It was never meant to be any sort of personal attack.
Yes, Snookie has to earn a living and I’m not begrudging her that. Its that college money is damn hard to come by for the people who pay for it, and some of us would like to retain the illusion that our kids will pull something out of a college education beyond pot smoke, a lost virginity, and a bad tattoo.
Granted Snookie showed up, took the ball & ran with it (which is what I hope every kid who graduates and gets a job does), but her story is really about right place, right time and thats it.
I know Katy Perry got mentioned earlier, but its just wrong to compare the two. Ms Perry spent years practicing, working on her voice. She writes her own stuff (words, music, choreography for performances), performs her own songs, and she makes it all work. People pay for tickets to her concerts and leave feeling better/ entertained. People buy her albums on Itunes when they want to improve their mood. She also worked long, hard, and for years. She paid her dues in spades to be “an overnight success”. Yes, both Snookie & Katy Perry have/are a brand and a style. Both grew up near an ocean. Besides that and brunette hair, they have nothing in common. To be fair, its the Katy Perry story that I wish college kids would listen to & learn from.
But college is about choices and this one is theirs. Doesn’t mean I’d ever skip a single AgField day. Good food, a live band at Passion Puddle, a chance to bet on cockroaches thanks to the Rutgers Entomology Club. Saturday, April 30th. Save the day, say ‘hi’ if you see me. 
FWIW I was talking about using the entertainment budget to hire Katy Perry to come do a concert, not to give an inspirational speech.
The school is using the entertainment budget to hire Snookie to come do a performance (which happens to consist of her speaking, since she is not a musician), not to give an inspirational speech.
I was using Perry as an example of a fun, vapid pop entertainer for entertainment’s sake as opposed to hiring someone like Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell.
Nobody is hiring Snookie to give her life story or to be inspirational, and no one is hiring Katy Perry for that either. At least not at Rutgers.
Snooki took a man punch and came back. What more do you want?
Cite?
What makes you think she’s any different in real life than how she appears to be on the show? What makes you think there’s a public persona and a private persona?
But that is what she does on the show. Why is it such a weird comment? If he was asking about some actress with a tawdry off screen persona, it would be insulting, but that’s Snooki’s shtick. Get drunk, look for gorilla juice heads, make comment on her vagina, fall over, lather, rinse, repeat.
Wouldn’t there have to be? I mean, the real woman must have some capacity for thoughtfulness, planning - at the very least, the ability to solicit, evaluate and accept good business advice. She needs a brain - has she displayed one on Jersey Shore? If not, this suggests she’s playing a role on that program.
I remember reading a NYTimes article where her own father said that’s pretty much what she’s like, and that even he was rather bemused about why people found her so fascinating. I’m going to go out on a limb and assume she really is that braindead.
You missed the point. Students at this school are FORCED to pay into a slush fund for partying.
People in Hollywood need a brain? HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa.
The word “hate” has been rendered meaningless by its relentless application toward any form of criticism, regardless of how richly deserved it may be.
Hate hater!
I thought snooki was a character on one of those vampire shows. Learn something new every day
Helpful reminder:
Sookie = “I’d hit it.”
Snooki = “Not with your dick.”
The generation that elected Obama wants to hear a speech from a mush-brained bimbo from NJ!
A good indication of the future course of this country!:D:smack:
I think paying Snooki $32,000 to speak is very reasonable. I’m sure she can charge a higher fee to keep quiet.
RU '89 <fist pump>
<hangs head>
I’ve had an association with Rutgers al my life 9although I’[m the only member of my family who never attended clases there), and sometimes it really does make me wonder.
In the case of Ms. Polizzi, I wonder because she isn’t even from New Jersey. She grew up in Marlboro, N.Y., and the “Jersey Shore” culture is an imported thing – I spent plenty of time time down at Seaside, and those characteristic expressions and attiudes weren’t there until the show aired*. So the State University of New Jersey is gonna be paying an out-of-stater who’ll talk about ersatz Jersey culture. It’s a perfect match.
*Now, of course, it’s all over the place. One of the things I love to see at the Jerse Shore every summer is which current pop culture trend it’s going to rip off and sell without paying royalties.