Neither of these activities has anything to do with going to football games.
U Mass drinkers long ago abandoned the middle man, if you will, and went directly at the alcohol poisoning.
It’s logical. Drinking in a stadium is expensive. Your team will probably lose, and alcohol is already a depressant. Stadiums have no cars to tip.
So why did anyone think U Mass students would haul ass across the state and attend their school’s football games?
Many U Mass alumni (who live closer to the stadium) have exactly the same profile as the students they used to be. Why would they go?
Here are two articles rehearsing these well-known facts and wondering why the taxpayers of Massachusetts let the people who run U Mass do such stupid, stupid things.
But what’s wonderful about these articles is that they make the connection between the new U Mass law school and the stadium fiasco.
UMass spending millions on an unprofitable and pricey venture is nothing new. The launch of the UMass law school a couple of years ago harkens [SOS alert: Harkens is awkward. Actually, it’s wrong. Harken is a verb meaning pay attention. Perhaps the writer had the idiom “harks back to” in mind – the law school puts one in mind of the football fiasco. I’d simply say demonstrates.] the same fiscal irresponsibility. With an overabundance of lawyer[s] graduating law school facing a historically anemic job market for attorneys, the idea was a waste of resources.
(The writer doesn’t even mention that the first president of the new law school was fired for credit card misuse.)
It’s important to grasp the synergy here, as these writers do. Taxachusetts indeed.
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UD thanks Andre.
August 1st, 2015 at 8:41AM
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