Yes. Yes you can.
Finals Week
Finals Week at LMU means:
- Den is open, packed 24/7
- Library is open, packed 24/7
- The weather is beautiful
- Everyone is done.
Congrats Scott!
Courtesy of Scott Gairdner brilliance, I get to appear alongside him and his girlfriend Erin today on the front page of the NY Times Arts section, print edition.
Scott wins life.
I’m not sure if you saw this morning’s Times, but Scott Gairdner (LMU alum) IS ON THE FUCKING FRONT PAGE OF THE ARTS SECTION. FEEL INSIGNIFICANT. GO TEAM SCOTT.
Fuck This Greenness
Hey LMU. Let’s get one thing straight. You are not green. You are not sustainable. Any claim as such, any student initiative to will it to do be or any made up statistic is bullshit. Two things.
One (1). I am graduating soon. With two degrees. That means fancy-pants me gets to wear two hoods. My parents are allowed to be prouder than all of the other hungover, asshole parents at “commencement.”
See, I don’t want to get fisted by the $60 price tag on the cap and gown for something I’ll use once in my life. Sure, I spent more on beer last night but that’s beside the point. I got my cap, gown and hood as a hand-me-down. I still needed a second hood for my second degree.
Book store to the rescue, right? Wrong. Apparently, the book store will not sell individual hoods because “the gown and cap colors change from year to year” and that I needed to “buy the two hoods, cap, gown and tassle in the package.” Total: $85. It doesn’t take a scientist to know that that is Grade A bullshit. Then they claimed it was an issue with Herff Jones. A quick call to Herff Jones corporate made it clear this was also not the issue. Caught in a pool of their own lies, the bookstore employee admitted that it was a mandate by the school. Now that I am in on the secret, I could buy one individually.
Talk about frustrating. LMU profits on selling caps and gowns that are readily available from anyone in the greater LA area who is jobless. They try to further fuck over the few that go above and beyond the call of academic duty by telling them to go fist themselves. Just about every cap and gown probably ends up in the landfill within the year. LMU does not only mandate that a few thousand pounds of nylon wind up in the local land fill every year, but they are profiting from it. And that, friends, makes you not green.
Two (2). The sprinklers were on campus-wide last night while it was raining. Just thought you’d like to know!
