Okay, so I realize I'm technically a few days late for April Fool's, so I guess you can just call the headline above a big fat lie.
When I first heard that a Snooki officially trumps a Nobel Prize winner in the "who is more valuable to a university?" department, my first thought was "Ha! Well that's a creative April Fool's joke." My second thought upon finding out that sadly, the joke's on us was, "There has never been a more sure sign of the apocalypse." Or as one of my wittier friends quipped, "a more shore sign of the apocalypse."
Now believe it or not I'm not going to use this as post to rag on Snooki. What is there to fault her for when she simply did what the American Dream encourages people to do: take the money someone offers you, no matter how questionable it (or the circumstances through which it was obtained) may be, and run as fast as you can. As far as I am concerned, this is a classic instance of "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
So for the record, I'm not hating on Snooki.
But I am going to hate on the organizer of "the game," in this case Rutgers University.
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Although give it a day or two and I'm afraid it may just come true. It's certainly not beyond the realm of possibility, not in an age in which Snooki from Jersey Shore is paid more than literary legend Toni Morrison to speak at the same institution.
When I first heard that a Snooki officially trumps a Nobel Prize winner in the "who is more valuable to a university?" department, my first thought was "Ha! Well that's a creative April Fool's joke." My second thought upon finding out that sadly, the joke's on us was, "There has never been a more sure sign of the apocalypse." Or as one of my wittier friends quipped, "a more shore sign of the apocalypse."
Now believe it or not I'm not going to use this as post to rag on Snooki. What is there to fault her for when she simply did what the American Dream encourages people to do: take the money someone offers you, no matter how questionable it (or the circumstances through which it was obtained) may be, and run as fast as you can. As far as I am concerned, this is a classic instance of "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
So for the record, I'm not hating on Snooki.
But I am going to hate on the organizer of "the game," in this case Rutgers University.
Read more at The Huffington Post