Some Woman's Journal: Congratulations! Now give me your money.

I get to sort of graduate tomorrow. Sort-of meaning I won't see a piece of paper for another year. And then I'll either see two or zero pieces of paper. We're rooting for two over here.

The commencement speaker is Walter Mondale, which is interesting. I didn't even know that he graduated from this place of edumacating until last year, because Kofi Annan is the in alumnus around here.

Anyway, apparently the college wants to make sure that its graduates leave pleased with their college experience (happy alumni=$$$$). I've never known another college to go all out like this. There was a river boat cruise on Tuesday, a country club reception on Friday, a breakfast and picnic today, and tomorrow there will be a brunch prior to graduation and a reception afterwards. I'm assuming that they did some calculations to figure out that they will bring in more money in donations than they are spending.

Is it possible that there could be too much free food? I'll perform a study and report back to you on that one.

hmmm

[dalassa]

Would this be Macalaster?

Re:hmmm

[Some Woman]

Yes. Yes it would.

alumni == massive amounts of money

[dthable]

I found I didn't even need to get a sheet of paper to get hit up for money. After 2 1/2 years, I decided to transfer to a different university. About 2 months after leaving the first, I started to get phone calls about donating to the alumni foundation. Didn't matter that I was still only working part time....they wanted my money now! It's been a couple years and I still get stuff in the mail. You will never escape........

What?

[SexyAlexie]

You want me to give you money? I would if it wasn't for the fact I'm unemployed.

I told them where they could stick the request.

[TechnoLust]

The year after I graduated, since I was still in the area I was very active in the fraternity. I made it to some of the meetings, participated in the rituals, and tried to help the younger brothers avoid some of the mistakes I made. We were also trying to boost membership. One day there was an emergency meeting, and the fraternity president told us that the college was condeming the house. Granted, the house wasn't in great shape, but it wasn't dangerous. And we had about 20 outstanding workorders that

Re:I told them where they could stick the request.

[Some Woman]

We couldn't figure out if they wouldn't let him in, or if his girl in college dumped him for a Sig Ep or what.

Or maybe he lived next door to the SigEp house and they played basketball until 2 am with hoards of skanky women and yelled obscenities to passers by and told the greek advisor to "suck my cock" and were just generally people with whom he never wished to have social relations.

But I only hold these offenses against the UMN chapter.

Re:I told them where they could stick the request.

[TechnoLust]

Regardless of the cause, I don't think it is acceptable to judge an entire group by the actions of a few. Agreed?

Re:I told them where they could stick the request.

[Some Woman]

Yes.