<p>Oh. Good point.It does appear that my cart has outrun my horse. Dadofsam, what if we got celebrity endorsements? If we issued a few hideously left wing press releases we are virtually assured of Sarandon, Robbins, and Ed Asner. Or probably less palatable-we could get Mel but I hear he’s pretty busy working on a sequel to Passion of The Christ denying the holocaust.</p>
<p>Dadofsam,</p>
<p>I like that approach too. “If you’ll come, we will build it.”</p>
<p>I think we could get more freshmen to sign up for on-campus housing if we refer to the yurts as “felt tents” in our college housing info. My son would be the first one in line at the housing office, right behind his girlfriend, Inga, who happens to be a massage therapist. :D</p>
<p>Curmudge: do you mean Mel of AIR or some other Mel? </p>
<p>Bassdad: I don’t think that we are nasty enough to take applications just so that we can reject them and dash some poor kid’s dreams of yet another acceptance. At least I don’t think that I’m nasty enough (possible exception of a few student posters who seem to go out of their way to be arrogant)</p>
<p>All in favor of “Inga” as a health services employee say aye. An immediate search will begin for an equivalent “Gunnar”.</p>
<p>dadofsam, I was going for “Passion of the Christ” Mel as in Gibson. (I have edited the previous post for clarity. Sorry.)</p>
<p>I don’t think we have to do it in a nasty way. We are simply providing a service to those who have been accepted at every other school to which they have applied. How can they truly know the joy of victory if they have never tasted defeat? Consider it a lesson in humility for those who may need it most.</p>
<p>I vill donate the hair I collect daily from the floor of my son’s bathroom to make rope and felt for the yurts.</p>
<p>Curmudge: I think that your cart is ahead of your horse again. If we issued fake hideously left-wing press releases in order to get celebrity endorsements we would not only be staining our integrity (before it’s even established) but would be seriously affecting our diversity standards as they relate to conservative-minded students and parents. Besides, as president you would have to issue those releases and stand behind them in public, along with Mel.</p>
<p>Let’s think of something else. Maybe we need TheDad’s selling expertise here. How about him for head of the Development Department?
Sluggbug, is your S going to be our second Legacy applicant.</p>
<p>BassDad, I love it and have as a pre-liminary overture already e-mailed it to Wash U"s Director of USNWR Studies, after first filing for a patent on the process in the name of Confidentialia or her successors and assigns. I would propose that we allow Wash U. to pass one additional college in the rankings for every $10,000,000 paid in cash (no notes) to Confidentalia College. Of course all this presupposes that we can find a way to do this with the utmost class ,kindness, and dignity.</p>
<p>Let me get this straight -
We won’t get a high ranking from the various ranking entities, unless we turn down a large number of 1600(36, let’s not forget the ACT)/4.0s.
But…,
We won’t get a large number of 1600(36, let’s not forget the ACT)/4.0 applications, unless we have a high ranking.
Ohmigod, we are stuck in a Catch 22 circle…</p>
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I’m beginning to get fairly comfortable like this. I’d notify the board post haste.</p>
<p>Dadofsam, if shedding hair for yurt construction can be considered an ec and a hook, he will happily apply! </p>
<p>Oh, and “aye” for Inga, Mr. El-Presidento. Are we hiring for the dining hall, yet? Inga’s brother, Lars, has experience making nonfat yogurt from goat’s milk. He has a small herd of goats, but they would be very picturesque grazing around the yurts on our CC home page.</p>
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Are you applying for the position of Director of Long-Range and Strategic Planning? It seems to me you may have read the required text.</p>
<p>And because of my total lack of organizational skills, I have very recently (as in now) delegated all actual job duties of the Pres except for the placing of the cart forward of said horse. So as to dining hall personnel,Slugbugg, I don’t have the foggiest idea. If we had a Director of Communications I would direct you to them to uh…communicate with on …stuff.</p>
<p>I once posted in another thread that I re-read Catch 22 every summer.
I have even watched the movie.</p>
<p>How do I change my screen name (or whatever it’s called) to DLRSP?</p>
<p>I dunno, there are more animals than students here at Confidentalia College. Slugs, bugs, cows, sheep and now horses in front or behind carts…</p>
<p>marite ,you left out snakes and elite adcoms. (Insert your own joke here______________________________. Mine was pretty funny- while remaining entirely respectful to the elite adcoms, if we fail to get our own Spruce Goose off the ground.)</p>
<p>O Pres, remember that you don’t have to delegate that much because somewhere back on this thread we implicitly agreed to self-nominate.</p>
<p>As Pres, you don’t necessarily have to have organizational skills, as long as you can arrange for duties to be delegated to someone who’s competent. So you should have good skills in selecting people who are enthusiastic about taking on important jobs and competent to handle them. However, as President, you still will have to portray the image of CC.</p>
<p>Also, don’t forget that the patent application must correctly name the inventor(s) of whatever it covers.</p>
<p>Sluggbug, remember that an essay will be required along with ECs. Is your S a returning or older student? That could qualify as his hook.</p>
<p>I think we need to give some major political and social figures (Jesse Jackson, the Hilton sisters, Tom DeLay) honorary degrees to raise visibility.</p>
<p>Got your luoluo before said horse, eh, Curmudgeony-One? Because of my total lack of giving-a-rat’s-a88 for all things administrative, let’s just have a barbeque and call it a week! :)</p>