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After Jackson’s nose in the Stereo decided to leave, the much awaited Asher Roth showed up! HoOoRay! He was terrible. I know this because I watched his whole show and then conducted an unrecorded survey of sample size n=? and enough of the n agreed that he was terrible.

Check out Slope Day = Nope Day …(?) for the scathing review…

This might not be a good thing–in every possible way, from lyrics, to delivery, to backing music, and beats, he’s just the latest breed of commercial rap-crap, lacking any musicality or passion. If a word had to describe him, it would be apathy. And, no relation to the underground hip-hop artist Apathy who delivers his own apocalyptic lines with a messianic fervor. Asher Roth’s apathy is the stuff of a loser who dropped out of college to smoke weed in his basement.

Decide for yourself, but here’s a small sample of his lyrics. They’re guaranteed to drop the functioning level of your brain down through the abstraction of sentience into free-associating drug-ridden male-fantasy:

• “chumps can’t fuck with the punk kids / Ash Roth be the king of the blumpkins”
• “But Em was in it way before I commited / And his lyrics were the shit, so I really gotta come with it / But each critic be picking apart my writing / if it isn’t up to par”
• “Yeah I’m fresh, super fresh / I would do me in a sec”
• “When it comes to condoms put two on (Trust me)”

You can check out more about Asher Roth at www.thedailykush.com/ where he maintains his homepage.

The main appeal is that he is offering a 25:1 maximum leverage on your donation. If you donate $1, Martin Tang will donate $25 to your alma mater:

If you make a gift now at www.giving.cornell.edu/give, I will give $25 to support the Annual Fund for undergraduate scholarships.

To maximize this, simply go and donate $1 recurring for 1 year, and realize a $52 donation for Cornell. If all of the class of 2006 (3238 students) donate $2, Cornell would get the whopping sum of $168,376, thanks to the power of trustee leverage!

The decline follows a broad sell-off in equity markets, and tracks well with similar declines at Harvard (25%), Yale (25%), and Columbia (22%). Dartmouth appears to have missed the bullet, posting a market-beating 6% loss. CU President Skorton, in an interview with Bloomberg, outlines cost-cutting measures designed to help Cornell through this financial crisis:

We’re throttling back our expenditures. We’re going to need a 10 percent correction in our budget in the next three to five years.

This does not include potential future losses from “hard to value” assets in “real estate and private equity” which account for a third of the fund. See also Meta Ezra and the Cornell alumni magazine for more endowment reporting.

What are these so called ‘Top universities’ made up of?

For name sake these are among the top lined up universities!!
The teaching there -Nil
Marking- exteremely difficult which puts down the average GPA of a student. Students who are A graders in the schools and other colleges score a C- !!
If there is some teaching its tolerable
Just subjecting stuents to immnese stress and marking hard does not make them Good universities U . Toronto, Cornell Univerisity, Harward etc
They contribute nothing to the betterment of the student
Its the students who bring up the univerisity and not the staff or the teachers!!

To me it sounds like someone’s kid didn’t get accepted into any Universities, and now the parental units are disappointed. Of course to them, their kid is perfect, so clearly all “top universities” must be somehow defective. Or perhaps the kid was an existing student who got expelled–who knows.

The point of this email–that Universities are all worthless–is worth refuting. Good schools, even mediocre ones, install valuable training and lessons. Education is priceless. If you must request a quantitative measure of that, simply correlate salaries with educational experience and you will see that the real world values learning.

You can check out the Cornell University page, which I’ve taken a snapshot of:

The service is essentially a competitor to Wikipedia (Cornell); we’ll see how it fares over time. Right now Wikipedia has better concrete information, but Unigo wins on the social side, with ratings, videos, and photos.

A recent NY Times article, The Tell-All Campus Tour, explains more about the service:

Said Adam Freelander, a Unigo managing editor: “Even the best guidebooks kind of make it seem like every college in the country is an awesome place to be, no matter who you are. And that’s not true.”

“For so long, the colleges have been able to have this stranglehold on the P.R. image of their school,” Goldman said recently in his office, decorated boy-workaholic-style with nothing but an open box of Frosted Flakes and a toy robotic dinosaur. “It’s just harder to look at them as the main source of information. If you’re a college student, you are as much of an expert on being a student at that college as anyone.”

I’m adding a link to my sidebar for this site, and hope it continues to develop and grow.

Name: Jakub Jan Janecka
Age: 33
Email: jjj3@cornell.edu
Hometown: The Hideout, Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania

Appendix

Here are all the relevant resources I could find about this story:

• Body of Cornell Alum Recovered From Collegetown Gorge
• Jakub J. Janecka’s Obituary
• No signs of foul play in gorge death
• The Strange Case of Jakub Jan Janecka

“…it’s impossible to ignore the nasty, ignorant, and bitter members of the minority community who constantly whine about the brutal oppression they suffer at the hands of whitey. Apparently, part of this oppression involves their admittance to an Ivy League institution, likely as a recipient of affirmative action and scholarships.”

Sample 1 of racist speech

“These reapers of racial rage seclude themselves inside their ethnic ghettos (be it [program houses] Ujamaa, Latino Living Center, or Akwe;kon.”

Sample 2 of racist speech

This would be just another matter of one group of students annoyed with another group of student if not for statements from the Cornell University administration, such as this juicy one from Dean of Students Kent Hubble:

“The Review’s journalism, if one dignifies it with that term, creates a climate of intimidation and alienation among the groups that it targets. Must we tolerate this behavior in order to uphold our commitment to free speech and freedom of expression? I would hope not.”

Don’t think that Cornell won’t ask them to change their name–after all, this blog received a cease and desist for including Cornell in its name after publishing unpopular, but well-reasoned (I’d like to think) articles. Unfortunately, whether you agree with it or not, the article in the Cornell Review is protected free speech. And, its use of the Cornell name is clearly within fair-use.