Every so often I get mail from U. of North Texas, most of which I ignore because if I respond to any of them, they’ll just hit me with requests for money (like most unasked-for emails from organizations do).
Not that I’d give them a red cent, the chiseling Mean Green Leftist assholes.
But this one made me chuckle.
I hasten to add that this has nothing to do with the famous RCOB©, known and beloved of my Longtime Readers, although in the context of the above, a “teaching innovation” would be an angry roar of: “If you little assholes don’t stop looking at your phones during my lectures, I’m going to fail the entire fucking class this semester!!!”
Or something like that.
For new or forgetful Readers, RCOB stands for “red curtain of blood”, that which descends over one’s eyes when one observes yet another massive example of governmental / institutional / Leftist / academic / Green / sociopathic fuckery (tremendous overlap).
My current RCOB:
* Peanut the squirrel and Fred the raccoon.
My sincerest deepest condolences to the Longo family and their animal sanctuary.
just remember, more effort from the government went into the theft of these two animals and their execution than has gone into securing our borders over the past four years
I always ignore the emails from HS and various Colleges I attended. The first college I attended starting nagging me for donations right after I graduated and before I had a job. I told the poor beggar on the phone that I had just finished spending $80k there, didn’t have a job yet and they had a lot of nerve asking me for yet more money.
When I taught engineering I wasn’t worried about students cutting class or being quietly inattentive. I pointed out that the course was required for graduation and that there would be three tests and a final covering the very material I’d be discussing. Students smart enough to pass the math and science course prerequisites for upper level engineering courses could connect the dots and decide whether to show up and pay attention.
On the topic of colleges hounding grads for donations…… My two schools were astounding in their ability to find me after a move. It was as though they had installed a subcutaneous tracking device as part of the graduation ceremony. You have moved a few times recently. How long did it take NTSU to start using your new address?
Having spent 4 years working in the Alumni Office of the 3 letter school on the river here in Cambridge, I can provide some insight into how a school with a $25 BILLION dollar endowment does it’s fund raising. The one thing they don’t do is send mass mailings with generic pleas for money. It’s a waste of resources for little return.
The data collected on past alumni is extensive. When the “resource development officer” personally contacts an Alum they are armed with more insight into the wealth and “giving history” of the Classmate than most of the family members of that Alum — right down to the names of the prep schools that their grandchildren are applying for.
…. of course the class sizes are considerably smaller than the big 10 graduating classes and the % of wealthy Alumni is much higher. So it’s shooting fish in a barrel with the same predictable results.