Dumbing Down Pays Well

[Old Moparz]

In some ways this is similar to when an athlete gets paid millions, but it falls short in that at least with an athlete, the athlete is being compensated for skills & physical abilities. Not sure which is worse for the extinction of the human race, natural disasters & radioactivity, or this.....

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/snooki-gets-32k-to-talk-gtl-on-rutgers-campus/59639?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Snooki Gets $32K to Talk 'GTL' on Rutgers Campus

PISCATAWAY, N.J. - The pouf is mightier than the pen when it comes to speaking fees at New Jersey's largest university.

The Rutgers University Programming Association paid Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi of the reality TV show "Jersey Shore" $32,000 Thursday to dish on her hairstyle, fist pumps, as well as the GTL — gym, tanning, laundry — lifestyle.

That's $2,000 more than the $30,000 the university is paying Nobel-winning novelist Toni Morrison to deliver Rutgers' commencement address in May.

Money for Polizzi's appearance came from the mandatory student activity fee.

Freshman Adham Abdel-Raouf told The Star-Ledger of Newark he thought the price was a bargain given Snooki's popularity. Another freshman, Dan Oliveto, said it was a waste of money.

Snooki's advice to students: "Study hard, but party harder."

[Vainglory, Esq.]

Meh.  It's Rutgers.

[71ChallengeHer]

Well, Penn State York campus paid her 30,000 . And only made 7000. They had her here for Women's History month. What a joke. 

[HITMAN 149]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!  THIS is whats WRONG with our society!!!! $32K for some std smooshing bimbo to speak at our state college about GTL!?!?!?!? friggin amazing!!! but we have VETERANS that are disabled & hungry living on the streets!!!! WOW!!!!!!! 

[Old Moparz]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!  THIS is whats WRONG with our society!!!! $32K for some std smooshing bimbo to speak at our state college about GTL!?!?!?!? friggin amazing!!! but we have VETERANS that are disabled & hungry living on the streets!!!! WOW!!!!!!! 

Good point, & why this story really annoys me. It's not that some dimwit can earn a good living being a dimwit, it's that a college thinks it's worthwhile spending that kind of money paying her to enlighten their students with her "wisdom". For $32K, here has to be at least a dozen people that could give students a good lecture & still have enough cash leftover to get them all a cake with a much better looking stripper to pop out.

[Mike DC]

 
It's not so much that dumbing down pays.  Not directly. 

It's that being a celebrity pays.  When you're trying to to be famous it's not really a liability to be dumb.

[HITMAN 149]

man if i was paying ALL that $$$$$$ for my kid to go to rutgers.... I'D BE FRIGGGGIN PISSSSSSSSSSSED!!!! 

[69CoronetRT]

If your kids college career was anything like mine, it will last longer than her being 'famous'.
She on minute 12 or 13 of her 15.

[resq302]

Oh, I can't wait to tell my sister in law who goes to Rutgers this if she isn't aware of it already.