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Subscribe to RSSIf your organization had $32,000 on hand to book a speaker, would you use it all on Snooki? That's what the Rutgers University student association did. On Thursday night, the pint-sized "Jersey Shore" star was hired to speak before nearly 1,000 undergraduates, where the topics ranged from hair styling to lessons for life.
Money for Snooki's appearance came from the mandatory student activity fee.
Interesting to note, the reality TV star's $32,000 fee is $2,000 more than Rutgers' commencement speaker, Nobel-winning novelist Toni Morrison, will get when she addresses graduates this spring.
Snooki's parting advice to students: "Study hard, but party harder."
I'm thinking Morrison might have a different message come May.
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Why not?
The pay is based on the ability to draw a crowd. Why are we not complaining about the astronomical salaries of US athletes? They make far more than top notch scientists working on truly important research. How about actors? How dumb is Charlie Sheen and how much was he making until very recently? Why single out a dumb brunette to be paying people supposedly based on their 'value to society'? Friggin hypocrites...
Says alot for Rutgers and their students
Here is a LIFE LESSON for free..."You get what you pay for"....in 2 years you will say...Snookie who?????
you ever heard the saying when you assume you make an ass out of u and me? athletes and actors are paid too much too.
Shame on the board. This is a state school for you. Read:
"Money for Snooki's appearance came from the mandatory student activity fee."
This means that the actual students with half a brain (probably the majority) are forced to foot most of the bill for the (mostly few) stupids who actually attend this sh1t.
I'd be OK if, you know, only the people who actually went to this stupid event paid for it but NO, even if you don't go, you still pay. For garbage.
Basic extortion. Shame on the activities board for wasting students' money this way.
It is rediculous for a State School of Higher Education to pay $32,000 for a guest speaker with little more than a highschool degree to come in and advocate partying over studying... The school would be better off giving a $1 rebate back to every parent or student.
And this is why I don't donate any money to my alma mater. :)
I'm sure she pleasured someone on the faculty for this
The cast of Jersey Shore, including "skankie", is the most garbage from New York to wash up on our shores since the medical waste in '87. Question is, do you blame the mental deficients who become famous for being morons or do you blame the millions of mindless droooling drones who watch them be morons. Todays youth is our future, we are so screwed !!
EnuffBull; Are you so correct. This group of ignorant imbeciles not only insult every Italian in America, but anyone who has ever lived on the Jersey Shore.
I grew up in a small town called Little Silver; and, it's on the Jersey Shore. I was once proud of the fact that I grew up in such a wonderful town on the shore. But, these idiots, who don't even live in New Jersey, have made the shore a laughing stock.
Anyone that I know in my new home town in NC asks me about these idiots portraying Jersey Shore people. Is everyone for the Jersey Shore like these people? And, all I can say is they're not from the Jersey Shore, they are renters/bennies. And, please don't compare the real people from the shore with these idiots.
And, as for Rutgers; I once had admiration for the education you received from there. Now, I have my doubts, paying $32,000 for a bimbo to tell you to party, rather than study. She's such a zero. In another year, she'll be Snooki who? And, a trivia question some twenty years from now.
You are soo on the ball. I can't blame her for getting paid. It's the morons that chose to pay her. Societies direction is so off the mark. Pay the people that can entertain us for 30-60 minutes or pay the people that actually make a contribution or that can change us or benefit us as a society.. hhmm...
The mandatory money is for student to run their own programs and not the University dictating which programs they should run. All student run group that are sanctioned by the University has a budget and they do vote on what to do with that budget. Is this a little silly to us grown up, yeah, but it is really that bad?I remember having Adam Sandler on the Kent State campus and was so fricking excited. He was on SNL and he was funny and the greatest thing every. Now would I pay for it, maybe not. I have grown up and my priorities have changed. I do not watch the Jersey Shore, but it is popular with the college demographics, so I can understand the kids voting to have her speak. This is right up the alley of paying someone to speak about abstinence and not having a child out of wedlock, when the cat is already out the bag.
Only in America.
Once upon a time, we had role models that were actually conscious.
Well, the Nobel prize ain't what it used to be. They will basically give them to anybody these days. Kudos to the young lady for finding gainful employment.
Since this is a state school, I think there needs to be a serious investigation into who authorized this monumental waste of money. What could this barely literate bimbo possibly have to say that is of any importance to a group of college students. What is she going to do, offer her advice on hangover remedies?!?! If I were a student at this school I would be outraged at this waste of my student activity fee. I wonder who in the decision loop either has already, or is hoping to get into this bimbo's pants.
Snooki's parting advice to students: "Study hard, but party harder."
Rutgers: Rutgers did an academic study of "Snooki: The Aura." The conclusion, with footnotes: It has historical precedent: kinda like "Moses".
Rutgers: Jersey Shore with (a) class
Rutgers: They're just trying to promote the sand exports industry, and who better represents sand than Snooki?
Rutgers: The best thing that ever happened to Delaware tourism.
Rutgers: OK, stupid--but explained so people can understand.
Rutgers: They offer admission to 61% of applicants, with 27% of those accepting. Since 93% of the students are in-state (for the low in-state tuition): For the 7%, why would pay out-of-state tuition of $21,682 per year?
Rutgers: An insult to Toni Morrison, an icon who does homework/
Rutgers: Snooki should pay to be permitted on the campus. Better still, a no-fly zone.
Rutgers: Snooki is getting a dis-honorary degree
Rutgers: From mandatory student fees!
Expect to get next year's fees paid in chickens.
Rutgers: Snooki's inspirational: "Study hard, but party harder." Kinda sorta like: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what beer can do for you."
Rutgers: Next time I go to New Jersey, I'm not going through New Jersey.
Rutgers: Where creativity knows no bounds.
Rutgers: Where buttons (none) replaced brains (still searching)
Rutgers: The Biology Department has confirmed she is a mammal.
Rutgers: My kid wants to study English, but he ain't goin' there.
Rutgers: Take a deep breath--stench warps judgment.
Rutgers: Where is Governor Christie on the biggest thing that hit New Jersey since the Pilgrims landed in Concord, New Jersey?
Rutgers: The amazing thing is: they're proud of it!
Rutgers: Fire the President--or promote him.
Rutgers: Animal House was fiction. Rutgers claims it's an invasion of their privacy.
Rutgers: They're lobbying for a change in the slate slogan. They want: "Duh?"
Normally I'm a big supporter of public funding to state universities... but if there were ever an argument for defunding... this would be it.
I hold no ill will to Snooki, as a matter of fact I'm happy for anyone who can make a good living. However this is just one more example of the "dumbification" of America. I really can't see a bright future for the country when the most important things on student's minds are X-box, Snooki or who preformed well on American Idol. When ever I visit a university I can't believe how immature the students really are.
This is the end result of well to do families having the ability to send their moronic and mentally lazy children to college en masse while poor and middle class families lack resources to send their intelligent and eager to learn children to college... idocracy may be more future fact than science fiction after all.
Rutgers: An inspiration to students--something to aspire to. Someday, you can be like that--if you're a Rutgers-arian.
Rutgers: Flash! Snooki has donated a dollar to endow a program to promote reality show quality! It's a waste of money.
H.L. Mencken, the Baltimore humorist (worthless in New Jersey): "Nobody ever went broke by underestimating the taste of the American people." Snooki and Rutgers, joint-venturing, proved it once again." Grotesque.
There is speculation Snooki is forming an exploratory committee to determine where she is at the present moment. In the meantime, she has a safe house at Rutgers.
Would it be disrespectful if Snooki became the Rutgers mascot?
On Snooki's abbreviated application to Ruters, they asked: "What was your elementary school major?"
When asked how she would spend the money, she said: "One". When asked for clarification, she said: "Yeah. One. One tank truck of beer, backed up to the house, with multiple IVs running out the side so no one wastes time with preliminaries like tapping a keg, and digestion."
They should have paid a college student that $32,000 to sit in the same room with her for 5 minutes. Ten minutes would be cruel and unusual punishment.
Rutgers: "That 32 K? Aw, it was just a prank. No laws were broken (other than fiduciary duty and common sense).
Who is doing the thinking over there--or is that presumptuous?
How could this brainless buffoon offer anything to the students of Rutgers? It's hard to believe that Jersey Shore is one of the number one programs on television! But then again, Teen Mom is another one. Values? Right down the chiter!
Looks the the IQ at Rutgers has dropped significantly. What a disgrace.
What did Rutgers ever do with: Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, both 18, have been charged with illegally taping another student having sex and posting the images on the Internet.
Remember this, the boy who was taped took a flying leap to his death.
Who is the tuition for a year at this school?
Parents is your money being well spent?
Great point! Here is a University that is dealing with National attention and the death of a student due to immature, irresponsible behavior on the part of two of its students... and they choose to bring in Snookie as a paid speaker?
It doesn't take a Masters in Mathematics from Rutgers to do that math.
The dumb down of America is intrepid!
Absolutely disgusting. How did we get to this place? Why on earth would this worthless, mean-spirited, know-nothing person get that much money from a respected university to talk about hair-styling?
32K is probably a better investment for Rutgers.
on the bright side she will be dead from either melanoma or liver failure soon, so there is that to look forward to. The way America is going, I am sure the flag will fly at half mast for a month
This officially marks the end of civilization. Did Rutgers give her an honorary Phd as well?
If I were Toni Morrison (who is so damn brilliant!) I'd refuse to speak now for under $40,000. Just on principle. I'd give the extra $10,000 to a charity that is trying to increase education levels in American youth, or decrease drinking and stupidity levels.
i was thinking something very similar.
Start a petition please, I'll sign it.
Rutgers students must be thrilled they're putting themselves in to a decade of debt to help fund this.
Whew. Our daughter was considering attending Rutgers but recently chose a different school. Sometimes you just get lucky. We just avoided a measure of social embarrassment. Any chance Rutgers is embarrassed?
Not just that but you aren't throwing money away for "mandatory" Snooki.
They could probably have bought her some liquor and gotten the same advice for free! What morons!
she'd have settled for $100. Rutger, educated morons.
I agree that the IQ at Rutgers has dropped to hire her as a speaker. That money could have been used in other ways. I still have a hard time understanding why anyone even watches her on tv. No class, no style of dress, loud mouth, appears that people have too much time on their hands to watch these reality tv shows.
You forgot "drunk." ;)
I agree with you.
Does she even know how to read? This university just lowered their standards. Pretty sad.
That money could have been used on a scholoarship to help a deserving, underpriviledged child. Instead it was wasted on a whiney twit whose 15 minutes should have run out a long time ago. Instead of investing it in our future, it is invested in our sad national decline.
I would be pissed if my student fees went to this trash. Way to go, Rutgers, way to go.
New Jersey attitude, Jersey values, Jersey students making the decision, and this is what you get
Hilarious. What a great motivational speaker for these kids (Party everyday and sleep around and make $32,000 for a hours work). That doesn’t say too much about the intellect at Rutgers (or should I say the student association).
I would hope that Morrison continues to speak at the current payment they agreed on, how better to teach your graduates about value. The highest paid people aren't necessarily the best informed or most informative.
Hookers are always expensive.
Is this an April Fool's joke?????
sadly, no.
Uh duh people---this has to be an April Fool's joke! No way Rutgers would pay $1 to hear that trash speak. Good one, though. =)
Hey, it's APRIL FOOLS DAY, people :)
Say what! I would certainly like to hear from the person or persons that made this decision and get some kind of an explanation. I can't imagine what would justify paying her $32k. I can't even imagine why they would allow her to speak even if it was for free. At the very least it might be humerous to hear what kind of spin they would try to put on this stupidity.
Hey it's APRIL FOOLS DAY people :)
Which Rutgers? There's three. Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick. Anyway, I immediately thought of Rutgers when I saw this.
Will add this to my list, "What is wrong in this world."