Requests for a handout from your alumni ass.-Dud or DUD??

Euclid based his most elegant and beautiful propositions on the shortest and simplest of postulates. Like Euclid's The Elements, St. John's College rests on a beautiful proposition: namely the study and discussion of the Great Books. And as in Euclid, the quality of the St. John's proposition is based on a simple postulate: that alumni will support the Program through gifts to the Annual Fund.

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I urge you to contribute to the quality of the simple and beautiful propistion of a St. John's education by making your gift by June 30."

So far they've given me nothing, so I think we are at a stand-off.

as the head of a prominent state-run institution, you are in effect a political mover and shaker w/n the state of new jersey. as such, you should be moving and shaking governor mcgreevey and the state legislature to give rutgers more money. in light of the foregoing, i humbly suggest that if you cannot persuade our governor and our legislature to give rutgers more money then you are miserable failures. in any event, you should not be banging yer tin cup on the doors of alumni about whom you never gave a flying fuck when they still were attending your institutions or who were looking vainly for jobs immediately after they left (with no assistance from you or your staff).

sincerely,

Eisbar, Esq.

p.s.: if yer really so strapped for cash, then you really might not want to have any more 100+ page glossy prospectuses that read like something written by the north korean propaganda agency printed up and mailed to alumni who are just going to throw them in the garbage anyway. or, at best, use the pages with yer pictures on them as toilet paper.

Man, they never stop trying. I wonder if they make work-study students do the calling.

I'm definitely never giving to my school unless I become quite wealthy and at that point I'd only give to a very specific earmarked purpose

this shit really pisses me off. i started getting them almost immediately after graduation. they don't have the resources to check up on grads, see if there's any career counseling they could use or what have you, etc. they'll probably keep mailing me them after i'm dead.

What the fuck right does my overcharging, state-funded, corrupt-as-fuck university have to ask me for a donation?

My grad school bought my name off of a list obtained Pinnacle Video when I registered some crap-ass s'ware with an email address containing "pinnaclesys", and they've been spamming me since.

1. Pinnacle = whores.
2. Buy from a ho and that makes you a john.

I did the alumni telethon for work-study freshman year of college and did not pull a single donation the entire first semester.

Thing is, I would consider giving them a few bucks if it weren't for the fact that I made a huge mistake in choice of college.

I give them money even if the calls annoy me - principle can eat a dick, I turned out OK & I suspect I owe a bit of that to shit I picked up at school, so here's my two bits

Yeah, but do the phone calls etc. stop after that?

i did these calls one summer when i was too lazy to find a better job, lots of hostility from alums but i did ok, maybe 2-3 donations/night. long time ago, and weirdly i never get the calls myself

It's like you're in the old boys' network you thought the education itself would provide.

Yeah, but do the phone calls etc. stop after that?

No. They ask you for twice as much as you gave last time, every time. Then you say "naw dude you're nuts, I got [x amount]. You want [x amount]? I got that."

I'm not sure I understand this really. You all pay - massively, too - for your university education. Why do the universities need more money?

(if that is a naive/silly question feel free to explain why; I know schools need money but donations always seem so wtf)

So they can buy bigger and shinier cigar clippers, yachts, electric dog polishers, hookers'n'blow, and uncirculated sets of state quarters, is my guess.

Trayce, I get these from the Uni of Adelaide. Letters, not calls, but still.

i'd donate to my broke-ass undergrad university sooner than i'd donate to the large wealthy private school where i did my master's. but i'm in no rush to help out either one.

i am wondering whether i should donate to my large wealthy private school, since they gave me ~ $30k in graduate fellowships and forgivable loans. part of me is like, why didn't you just give me $29k and pocket the change?

i don't know if i'm under any "obligation" to donate because my LWPS gave me a hefty scholarship -- to me that's like sleeping with someone because they paid for dinner.

Now if Ned Raggett called and told me to donate to UCI, things might be different.

"Listen ho, you will donate one of yo benjamins to the Oochie now or I slay thee. ;-)"

Verbatim.

ha this is my job while im in school

it's a pretty good job as far as minimum wage jobs when you're in college go and pretty easy if you're a good conversationalist

the funny thing is, people see the school's @ on caller ID so they let it ring through 18 times and on the 19th the pick up and go "WHY DO YOU ALWAYS CALL STOP CALLING" and its like "if you would've just picked up the first time you wouldn't have had to worry about it"

most ppl are nice though-- i guess they accept it as a fact of life