And now for something completely different….
From the girl who’s updates consist of sporadic depressing lines insisting it’s the end of the world, I bring you:
The Stereotypes, Quirks, and Wars of College…(with pictures and everything!)
Because I'm a failure at LJ and can't seem to make the text of the cut say what I want it too even with help, just click there...
Before we actually went to college, we were infiltrated with different images of colleges from television and movies and whathaveyou. Of course, we all knew that the stereotypic image of college portrayed in the media was hardly accurate-a belief that was confirmed upon arrival.
Every week however, I pass in walking The Stereotypical College Professor-grey/white hair, glasses, tweed jacket with the elbow patches, pants that are pulled up way too high… This amuses me to no end, who would think that they would see that guy at their college-I sure didn’t.
And just yesterday, I saw another similarly dressed professor (but not quite as much right out to TV) smoking out of a wooden pipe. These things may be trivial to you, but I find them strikingly amusing, so I thought I’d share.
*Note: I don’t have pictures of either of these guys. I really wanted to take them, but it would have been SO obvious and horribly embarrassing. You can just imagine it though…
While we’re on the topic of stereotypes, may I just say that Emory has a prejudice against people who understand the way to wear clothing….
So today I go to the library to study for an hour (which let me just tell you is a complete joke-I’ve been to the library maybe 5 times since I came to Emory, and I have yet to study there for more than 3.5 minutes ever), and after making it about 15 feet into the library, whipped my head around and went into reverse to get a better look at
I have no other information about it than this. I just found it horribly amusing. Someone’s well planned marketing techniques certainly caught my attention!
Speaking of good marketing techniques… Did anyone see those “Funnel Cake Carnival now at IHOP” commercials? I sure did….
On a related note, (related in the sense that it's totally random), my bookstore is a horrible place that marks up books by over 50% and buys them back from students for less than 15%, but they sure know how to make a chemistry tower..
My love of Target grew even greater when I met my first two story Target, complete with its own cart escalator!
I am eternally awed and amused by this.
In more “serious” news (though it’s really debatable how “serious” this is), apparently we’re at war. No, I don’t mean all the middle eastern stuff that Bush dragged us into, I mean Emory. Wtf, I know. So, here’s the thing…
We have no football team, which is great for people like me who are attending college to learn, not attend sporting events, socialize, or get drunk (no offense to people who do like those things, I’m just saying that they’re not my cup of tea). So seemingly, this lack of a football team has created a lack of school spirit, why this is important, you’ve got me, but apparently the Student Government Association (SGA) decided that the best way to foster school spirit was to create a rivalry with another university, which apparently is Washington University in St. Louis, better known as Wash. U.
Last year this attempt was juvenile, but harmless: they made t-shirts saying “Wash Who?” and placed a full page ad in the paper showing a photo of a basketball (the sport we do have) with a sheet of notebook paper filled with “trash talk” from “Wash U.” Horribly immature, but you know, it was only an ad in the paper.
This year, our newly elected SGA president, Amrit Dhir, decided to take it one step further. He dissolved the SGA legislature, named himself “supreme ruler,” and declared war on Wash U. “Dressed in a military uniform, with a cigar in his pocket and a flask on his hip, Dhir stormed into an “emergency meeting” of the legislature, flanked by 14 uniformed members of SGA’s [newly created] Department of War.
He went on to explain that Emory was attacked the night before and vandalized by Wash U. The newspaper apparently got e-mails, which I believe, that said that the Emory SGA “Department of War” was responsible for the vandalism at both schools. (And when I say vandalism, I mean littering-they TP’ed stuff, threw flyers with “trash talk” around the campus, and painted on like windows and stuff, not on buildings.)
When he disbanded the legislature in his war declaration, he told them “Your services are no longer needed. Democracy can do nothing for us now.”
That was last week. This week the paper’s going about the mixed responses they are getting to this “novel” approach to boosting school spirit. Apparently, this news has spread much more than across our campus. From national news stories http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170183,00.html , to personal blogs http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/45276. It seems that everyone’s talking about this. And the opinions are much more mixed than you would expect.
Personally, I’m appalled. Don’t these kids have anything better to do with their time than to make our school look bad. I’m so embarrassed to be associated with them. It’s horrible. There are so many more productive things they could be doing with their time and vast resources than sending bad messages about democracy, starting a fake “war” with another university, and being more concerned with our school spirit than our national rankings.
Last month we were in the news for selling the rights to an amazing new HIV drug that our researchers made for $540 million, which by the way is the largest intellectual property business deal ever to involve an American university. (More here if you’re interested http://www.emorywheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/08/26/430f6d26a658a?in_archive=1 ) And now everyone’s talking about how we’re at “war.” Somehow I didn’t think that was the point of college.
In response to some of the negative comments about this effort one of the members said that pretty much all publicity can be considered good publicity. “I disagree with anyone who says this is a lame attempt to foster school spirit,” he said. “You don’t get national coverage out of a ‘lame’ attempt to do anything.”
In the business world yes that’s true. “All press is good press.” or “All publicity is good publicity.” (Or something like that.) But we’re not freaking selling anything. And if we are it certainly shouldn’t be school spirit, it should the quality of education. I’m appalled and disgusted at their juvenile actions and ridiculous intentions.
In lighter news, the Serenity premiere is on Friday! I know all of you have heard me go on and on about this a countless number of times, so I’ll be brief. It’s incredible. I promise, you really can’t not like it. And we really need the support opening weekend. The only way for this world to stay alive for this movie to do really well. It’s worth the trip I promise. Please go, bring your friends, families, neighbors, anyone. Just go out and see it this weekend. You won’t regret it. For a trailer or info www.serenitymovie.com. They just re-did it in a really cool flash site (not friendly with Firefox, so use IE for this one). And if you do go see it, which I really hope you do, I’d love to hear what you thought of it, so let me know.
And now the rambling shall cease because I have an Italian quiz to study for and Gilmore Girls to watch. I hope that at least someone found at least something that I said slightly interesting and/or amusing.
Ciao!
Because I'm a failure at LJ and can't seem to make the text of the cut say what I want it too even with help, just click there...
Before we actually went to college, we were infiltrated with different images of colleges from television and movies and whathaveyou. Of course, we all knew that the stereotypic image of college portrayed in the media was hardly accurate-a belief that was confirmed upon arrival.
Every week however, I pass in walking The Stereotypical College Professor-grey/white hair, glasses, tweed jacket with the elbow patches, pants that are pulled up way too high… This amuses me to no end, who would think that they would see that guy at their college-I sure didn’t.
And just yesterday, I saw another similarly dressed professor (but not quite as much right out to TV) smoking out of a wooden pipe. These things may be trivial to you, but I find them strikingly amusing, so I thought I’d share.
*Note: I don’t have pictures of either of these guys. I really wanted to take them, but it would have been SO obvious and horribly embarrassing. You can just imagine it though…
While we’re on the topic of stereotypes, may I just say that Emory has a prejudice against people who understand the way to wear clothing….
So today I go to the library to study for an hour (which let me just tell you is a complete joke-I’ve been to the library maybe 5 times since I came to Emory, and I have yet to study there for more than 3.5 minutes ever), and after making it about 15 feet into the library, whipped my head around and went into reverse to get a better look at
I have no other information about it than this. I just found it horribly amusing. Someone’s well planned marketing techniques certainly caught my attention!
Speaking of good marketing techniques… Did anyone see those “Funnel Cake Carnival now at IHOP” commercials? I sure did….
On a related note, (related in the sense that it's totally random), my bookstore is a horrible place that marks up books by over 50% and buys them back from students for less than 15%, but they sure know how to make a chemistry tower..
My love of Target grew even greater when I met my first two story Target, complete with its own cart escalator!
I am eternally awed and amused by this.
In more “serious” news (though it’s really debatable how “serious” this is), apparently we’re at war. No, I don’t mean all the middle eastern stuff that Bush dragged us into, I mean Emory. Wtf, I know. So, here’s the thing…
We have no football team, which is great for people like me who are attending college to learn, not attend sporting events, socialize, or get drunk (no offense to people who do like those things, I’m just saying that they’re not my cup of tea). So seemingly, this lack of a football team has created a lack of school spirit, why this is important, you’ve got me, but apparently the Student Government Association (SGA) decided that the best way to foster school spirit was to create a rivalry with another university, which apparently is Washington University in St. Louis, better known as Wash. U.
Last year this attempt was juvenile, but harmless: they made t-shirts saying “Wash Who?” and placed a full page ad in the paper showing a photo of a basketball (the sport we do have) with a sheet of notebook paper filled with “trash talk” from “Wash U.” Horribly immature, but you know, it was only an ad in the paper.
This year, our newly elected SGA president, Amrit Dhir, decided to take it one step further. He dissolved the SGA legislature, named himself “supreme ruler,” and declared war on Wash U. “Dressed in a military uniform, with a cigar in his pocket and a flask on his hip, Dhir stormed into an “emergency meeting” of the legislature, flanked by 14 uniformed members of SGA’s [newly created] Department of War.
He went on to explain that Emory was attacked the night before and vandalized by Wash U. The newspaper apparently got e-mails, which I believe, that said that the Emory SGA “Department of War” was responsible for the vandalism at both schools. (And when I say vandalism, I mean littering-they TP’ed stuff, threw flyers with “trash talk” around the campus, and painted on like windows and stuff, not on buildings.)
When he disbanded the legislature in his war declaration, he told them “Your services are no longer needed. Democracy can do nothing for us now.”
That was last week. This week the paper’s going about the mixed responses they are getting to this “novel” approach to boosting school spirit. Apparently, this news has spread much more than across our campus. From national news stories http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170183,00.html , to personal blogs http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/45276. It seems that everyone’s talking about this. And the opinions are much more mixed than you would expect.
Personally, I’m appalled. Don’t these kids have anything better to do with their time than to make our school look bad. I’m so embarrassed to be associated with them. It’s horrible. There are so many more productive things they could be doing with their time and vast resources than sending bad messages about democracy, starting a fake “war” with another university, and being more concerned with our school spirit than our national rankings.
Last month we were in the news for selling the rights to an amazing new HIV drug that our researchers made for $540 million, which by the way is the largest intellectual property business deal ever to involve an American university. (More here if you’re interested http://www.emorywheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/08/26/430f6d26a658a?in_archive=1 ) And now everyone’s talking about how we’re at “war.” Somehow I didn’t think that was the point of college.
In response to some of the negative comments about this effort one of the members said that pretty much all publicity can be considered good publicity. “I disagree with anyone who says this is a lame attempt to foster school spirit,” he said. “You don’t get national coverage out of a ‘lame’ attempt to do anything.”
In the business world yes that’s true. “All press is good press.” or “All publicity is good publicity.” (Or something like that.) But we’re not freaking selling anything. And if we are it certainly shouldn’t be school spirit, it should the quality of education. I’m appalled and disgusted at their juvenile actions and ridiculous intentions.
In lighter news, the Serenity premiere is on Friday! I know all of you have heard me go on and on about this a countless number of times, so I’ll be brief. It’s incredible. I promise, you really can’t not like it. And we really need the support opening weekend. The only way for this world to stay alive for this movie to do really well. It’s worth the trip I promise. Please go, bring your friends, families, neighbors, anyone. Just go out and see it this weekend. You won’t regret it. For a trailer or info www.serenitymovie.com. They just re-did it in a really cool flash site (not friendly with Firefox, so use IE for this one). And if you do go see it, which I really hope you do, I’d love to hear what you thought of it, so let me know.
And now the rambling shall cease because I have an Italian quiz to study for and Gilmore Girls to watch. I hope that at least someone found at least something that I said slightly interesting and/or amusing.
Ciao!