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A Venn Diagram for Higher Education Marketers

Another cogent observation by xkcd:

Things on the home page of university websites

And yes, this has been noticed by others: in my experience people aren’t really too interested in your fund-raising efforts or the awesome things your outstanding and brilliant Center in Toenail Studies is doing in fungus-stricken New Jersey (though they should be with the latter).

They do, however, really want to know what the local weather is, or perhaps, if you have an art history program.

Alltop don’t take to no book learning.

Controversy on Campus

Goat under a monkeyChauncey Migswith-Pigerton thought that everyone was making too much out of the whole goat-monkey thing. Whether you had a fondness for cute white ungulates or you had a preference for our hairy, poo-flinging relatives, Chauncey didn’t see why everyone on campus had to make such a big deal about it.

His seminar in Post-Euclidian Psychodynamic Self-Gratification had been completely ruined by it, mostly because his teaching assistant, the lovely, but carpal-tunnel challenged Belinda, kept gushing about “how adorable” it was.

At least it was better than the previous semester, when chain-gun wielding demons from the fifth circle of Hell had been riding around on syphilitic T-Rexes.

Boy, they really had to Bell the grades up that term!

Alltop is into ungulate gratification. Originally published May 2007.