Just sayin’! Not sayin’ Rule By Females would necessarily be better. But when you run a blog about universities and it’s all about undergraduates like Richie Incognito and trustees like Steven Cohen and coaches like Mike Rice you do wonder about Rule By Males.
When you see – frequently – headlines like this
WHY REPLACE A STADIUM THAT’S
ONLY HALF-FULL ON GAME DAYS?
it has to go through your head to consider whether men are led through life by anything other than dicks and wallets. I mean, why are Colorado State University and the University of Nevada Las Vegas (scroll down) going to build massive expensive empty new stadiums? CSU Athletic Director Jack Graham’s “dream of playing with the big boys,” says one local critic, really shouldn’t result in a university spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a slightly better located, slightly expanded, void.
Various fans explain to the newspaper that they go to the games, they get excited when they go to the games, and they get excited by the thought of competing with other schools on the basis of the magnificence of their stadiums …
November 16th, 2013 at 10:57AM
Well, this makes sense if most simple men can be classified as either fighters (wallets) or lovers (dicks). This leaves out the third kind of simple man, of course, which is nurturers.
November 16th, 2013 at 11:13AM
As for the wallets, seems to me that the the decision to build a stadium should be based on finances and revenue so you can’t blame guys for the wallets part. Seems to me you are making the opposite point– that it’s not a good financial decision, so they should be governed by their wallets. As for finances and men, that involves math, so you know the rest.
As for the intimate organs part, the stadiums I’ve seen are more feminine in shape than masculine.
November 16th, 2013 at 1:39PM
Hey UD, why the excess verbiage of “led by their dick or their wallets?” Just combine the appendages into one term that means the same thing, they’re led by Wall Street.
And it’s a hella lot more accurate. The seeming idiocy of spending billions on football stadiums to showcase horrible teams isn’t so when you follow the money. All that public financing is going to be administered by Wall Street institutions, either if creating the debt or buying the bonds. Given the fact that so few private investments exist, they turn to public institutions in order to get the money for their bonuses. And administrators at schools such as CSU and UNLV are in the back pocket of the monied interests, so they flack for this bullshit, which will be borne by the taxpayers and students. But who cares if the libraries haven’t been improved in years, or most courses are taught by itinerant adjunct profs, who goes to college to read or gain an education anyway?
November 16th, 2013 at 5:10PM
I’m glad you’re not saying that rule by females would be better. I’m not playing the Margaret Thatcher card – I’m just remembering that 6 out the 7 Provosts I’ve worked with were female – and none of them were particularly clear-cut forces for good. I was lucky that my general biases about what was good for us as an institution coincided with the longest serving female Provost and Dean of Faculty (though I chaired a committee to review one of her signature policies and came out thinking she was wrong, wrong, wrong).
We are one of those an Division III institutions with ONE Division I team. Men’s Lacrosse here. I find them and the campus reaction to them interesting.