Mid-week Round-Up: April 7
Bummer. Sexton sent another one of his bi-annual mellow-harshing emails, telling us a bunch of stuff that didn't matter before briefly concluding with a sucker-punch: Our tuition will be increased by 3.8 percent over the next academic year. Which means that we're pretty damn close to paying an actual arm and a leg for tuition . Then he tries to elicit sympathy by telling us that our endowment is low — he's like that senator that complained about making $174,000 a year. Oh, the woes of our nation's private college presidents and six-figure earning congressmen ... I'm playing the world's smallest violin for you two.
Here's an upper after that epic downer, a virtual Xanax if you will: "When Harry Met Sally 2", brought to you by Billy Crystal, Mike Tyson, Helen Mirren and a bunch of other celebs. You'll LOL hard, guys. Although I do wish that Meg Ryan was in it — she kind of fell off the face of the earth.
Sorry to go heavy on the entertainment news, but this is breaking (and incredibly depressing): Alec Baldwin said that next season will be "30 Rock's" last. I will never forgive you for this, Baldwin, not even if you donate your net worth to Tisch (because that money won't go toward my education anyways). It's not even April 22, when Jack Donaghy honors Richard Nixon's death by getting drunk and making some unpopular decision. Somebody bring me some ham!
HAWK WATCH 2011. We all held our breath yesterday when we heard the news that two hawks, Bobby and Violet, had taken up residence in John Sexton's window. In an exclusive interview with WSN, the birds said that Bobst seemed like the ugliest building in the city, so they thought everyone would leave them alone if they roosted there ... Well, that didn't happen. It's still unclear whether Sexton will be charging them a full semester's room and board or pro-rate it since they arrived mid-semester.
Remember that trip to the Lincoln Memorial you were going to take this weekend? Get ready to cancel it, because Grandma won't be getting that Social Security check this month — the government will likely shut down because the Dems and the GOP won't agree on a budget. C'mon guys, get it together. I didn't know the country was being run by a bunch of kindergarteners that refuse to share their Legos. Here's to hoping that all the heat from Sexton's email doesn't lead to that kind of fiasco at our fair university.
Here's an upper after that epic downer, a virtual Xanax if you will: "When Harry Met Sally 2", brought to you by Billy Crystal, Mike Tyson, Helen Mirren and a bunch of other celebs. You'll LOL hard, guys. Although I do wish that Meg Ryan was in it — she kind of fell off the face of the earth.
Sorry to go heavy on the entertainment news, but this is breaking (and incredibly depressing): Alec Baldwin said that next season will be "30 Rock's" last. I will never forgive you for this, Baldwin, not even if you donate your net worth to Tisch (because that money won't go toward my education anyways). It's not even April 22, when Jack Donaghy honors Richard Nixon's death by getting drunk and making some unpopular decision. Somebody bring me some ham!
HAWK WATCH 2011. We all held our breath yesterday when we heard the news that two hawks, Bobby and Violet, had taken up residence in John Sexton's window. In an exclusive interview with WSN, the birds said that Bobst seemed like the ugliest building in the city, so they thought everyone would leave them alone if they roosted there ... Well, that didn't happen. It's still unclear whether Sexton will be charging them a full semester's room and board or pro-rate it since they arrived mid-semester.
Remember that trip to the Lincoln Memorial you were going to take this weekend? Get ready to cancel it, because Grandma won't be getting that Social Security check this month — the government will likely shut down because the Dems and the GOP won't agree on a budget. C'mon guys, get it together. I didn't know the country was being run by a bunch of kindergarteners that refuse to share their Legos. Here's to hoping that all the heat from Sexton's email doesn't lead to that kind of fiasco at our fair university.
