I know it might seem like a bit much, but this girl I see sometimes heard this on the radio and pointed it out to me tonight, and I couldn't resist adding another item under our shiny new tag:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14748873
It is, after all, in the byline of our blog's title. Remember student appreciation dinners?
3 comments:
My favorite line: "Sushi is an entitlement, master chefs cook on campus and the quality of the pasta is almost as important as the quality of the pre-med program." Although this message surely wasn't intended, it is nonetheless indicative of the attitude of most of the undergraduates I teach these days--college is less a place for education than for entertainment and students are more invested in the food they are provided, the facilities available to them, and the quality of the sports programs (particularly at division I institutions) than with the work that Coye and I perform. Exhibit A of the institutionalization of this kind of thinking, of course, is the salary disparity between the faculty and the coaches. If only I could aspire to a multimillion dollar contract for my work at the university some day. Wouldn't that be nice?
You could get the contract if you could sell the tickets. How many times a year do you think you can fill the stadium?
touché!
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