… about the new president’s salary at the University of Minnesota. But remember: This is the man who will go up before all the peoples of Minnesota and plead for alcohol sales at the university’s new football stadium! On his shoulders alone falls the responsibility of explaining to the politicians of the state the indispensability of beer and wine sales to the health of the state’s flagship. How much does the head lobbyist for the National Beer Wholesalers get? That’s what you’ve got to go by.
November 19th, 2010 at 1:23PM
does four loko come with the diploma?
will he then go to Texas and then come to UC system?
what does this mean for the Napa and Sonoma wine country?
November 20th, 2010 at 8:30AM
The tone-deafness of these guys is remarkable.
November 20th, 2010 at 9:26AM
I think they should just party-school it all the way, tp. The world – and certainly the legislature – is ready for it. Use humor. Wink wink and nod nod. We’re all adults here, etc.
November 21st, 2010 at 8:03PM
Question: What is the difference between President Robert Bruininks and the head lobbyist for the head lobbyist at the National Beer Wholesalers?
Answer: President Bruininks only wants to sell alcohol to SOME of those of legal age.
As in most other things, the current U of M administration comes directly out of Jimmy Breslin – The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.
We used to play football in the Metrodome. There alcohol was sold to all of legal age. Then we spent a lot of money to build a new football stadium, The House That Bob Built, on campus.
The Gang had the bright idea to sell swill only to the swells. This would make the gigabuck suites ever so attractive and the rich folks would pay through the nose to tank up.
The state legislature through a monkey wrench in these plans by insisting that if alcohol was to be sold in the new stadium it had to be sold everywhere. The peons were also entitled to get pissed!
But our president decided that he had to save the children. We just couldn’t serve alcohol to the undergrads, could we?
So now he is claiming that loss of the right to sell alcohol in the suites is costing the gophers millions of dollars.
Sad, right?
Now while all this is going on, one can step across the street, literally, to the Alumni Center, where, voila, alcohol is sold to all of legal age! How can this be? Well, you see the alumni center building is NOT owned by the university – so everything is OK, right?
And please don’t anyone point out the fact that the Gophers have only won two games this year. This may also be contributing to, ah, loss of revenue. Of course we’ve paid out over four million dollars to two different football coaches and a basketball coach in the last couple of years.
But don’t worry, according to our administration, the U of M will be one of the top three public research universities in the world by 2014. As Hook said to Smee, do I hear a clock ticking?