Did anyone go to this thang?
Give us a report!
There's another event (at Irvine Valley College) tonight. It's just the sort of thing that annoys some of President Roquemore's academic-minded detractors. Here's the announcement:
You're invited! We're going to be celebrating in style. On Friday evening, June 4, 2010, the PAC will be transformed into a glitzy New York City theatre off Times Square. At 6 PM you will walk up a red carpet into a glamorous lobby filled with twinkling lights and glittering stars, where you will be greeted with glasses of cold champagne and hot and cold appetizers served by professional waitstaff from Hyatt Regency Catering. You will wander through the lobby and adjacent tent sipping wine and signature "Laser" martinis from one of our three full service bars, eating gourmet small plates from our Little Italy pasta and California greens stations, schmoozing and listening to members of the IVC Jazz Ensemble playing some of their favorite musical selections.
There will be a variety of live and silent auction items to bid on, including fine art, wine and some fantastic travel opportunities. Then, at 8 PM, we will all move into the theatre for a fast-moving, razzle-dazzle salute to the hottest shows on Broadway, produced and directed by Professor Ron Manuel-Ellison and featuring IVC’s very own student performers, with a little help from some surprise alumni guests.
After the show, we will all move back to the tent and lobby area to sample gourmet Starbucks dessert coffees and teas and warm jumbo homestyle cookies at the Hyatt’s Afterglow Coffee Bar. Members of the Jazz Ensemble will again provide music and you will have a chance to have your photo snapped by a professional photographer with members of the “Broadway Stars” cast. Then, collect your auction items and call it a night or stay for the post-performance after-party.
Please save the date! This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity.
Sometimes, you'd swear this college is run by Republican fundraisers.
22 comments:
Laser martinis?
Warm jumbo homestyle cookies?
What chutzpah. The clown finally gets fired and he shamelessly throws himself a celebration! Incredible. Ugly flyer. Ugly career.
Now, now, 10:40. Likely, Mathur didn't throw the party. Rather, he ordered his underlings to throw it. Also, he wasn't fired. He was asked to participate in negotiations resulting in his comfortable and "fiscally responsible" exit. Further, it borders on racism to use the term "chutzpah" to describe the excesses of a Hindu, and I do believe that Chancellor Mathur is a Hindu. Not sure. But he ain't Jewish. Pretty sure about that.
I agree with the academic-minded critics. The event here described seems inappropriate for a college. It seems like something a business might throw--or maybe, as you say, the Republican Party. Having read this blog over the last few months, it seems to me that your college leadership is in no sense attuned to academia and its values. They seem to go out of their way NOT to celebrate intellectual or artistic achievement (especially in the case of Dissent writers) but they can always be counted on to support the kind of kitschy schlock that the abysmal Mr. Ellison produces--or the vacuous, anti-intellectual blather promoted by that troubled speech instructor whom the board gives a medal to at a rate of once every month. What kind of President and Vice President do you have at that college? No doubt, their degrees are not in the liberal arts. Education degrees? Business management? Underwater basketweaving? Military? The entertainment industry? The escort industry?
Your college sounds like the college from hell.
“Sometimes, you'd swear this college is run by Republican fundraisers.”
So let me get this straight. The Democrats don’t do this sort of stuff at their fundraisers? I don’t think this party characterizes either political persuasion, isn’t it just a fundraiser for the Foundation?
Either way, one can safely make the conjecture that Democrat fundraisers look different; people with excessive tattoos, body piercings, dyed hair, etc…, demanding their rights!
What a clever remark, 3:46. Of course you're correct.
At Republican fundraisers, there are lots of bouffant hairdos and poodle skirts, men with hair shirts and a pungent smell of gin, and puppies on spits on the barbeque.
Well whoever runs this college, they aren't educators. That's obvious.
Long time listener, first time caller.
I understand that the anniversary event may rub some folks the wrong way. I assume that it's the over-the-top entertainment style that irks, and trust me, I am not about to defend the theme of this one.
But just to be clear. Even the most ivory of said tower academicians understand that fundraising has a long history in academia, and these days it's a mandate. I mean, no one is exactly rolling in dough in public education these days, and these events are happening on every college campus in America.
Except maybe the diploma mills like Argosy - Ha!
So to those who want to bash the THEME of the event, I say let 'er rip. But if you are condemning a fundraising event as some how not approriate for an institution of higher education, time to come down from the tower for a dose of reality in today's economic climate.
Thank you for letting me play, I really enjoy this site.
Yes, fundraising is a part of academia - and maybe I'd feel different if, say, this sleazy showbiz strategy (used OVER AND OVER AGAIN) was actually successful.
But it is NOT.
The take at the gate is abysmally low - is it not those of you in the know?
Consider how much more $$$ could be raised if they produced an event that say faculty and staff would actually want to attend?
The irony I see here is that this 25th anniversary marks not the opening of the college but the upheaval that separated the campus from its greedy sister, marked out a new curriculum, and raised the flag of quality education, faculty responsibility, and fiscal commonsense. Laser martinis, my ass.
Laser martinis? I thought we were going to get a NEW mascot.
By the way way, there are some people on this campus I really don't want to see drinking, especially in public. I've seen it before and it ain't pretty.
I am so sorry that you are not among the 4 dozen people attending the shindig tonight Roy - I was looking forward to your witty red carpet coverage...can you do it anyway? Will Rebel Girl be amongt eh few faculty in attendance? (I think s can count the faculty RSVPs on two hands...and some of them only bought tickets and will be no- shows...)
3:46, I referred to Republican fundraisers in part because our district is in some ways an annex of the local GOP. Each of the seven trustees is a Republican; several are quite active in the local party; further, over the last dozen or so years, we have been visited by various important persons who almost invariably are Republicans.
Further still, historically, Republicans have often been stunningly unashamed of ostentation and conspicuous consumption.
Finally, the guy who runs the foundation (and his wife) for years have worked with and for Republicans and the party.
We're a red district.
4:33, I should clarify. The "academic-minded" detractors are not opposed to the Foundation or to fundraisers. Essentially, the complaint concerns the themes and the sort of thinking that would not detect any tension between an academic setting and certain themes and activities. We are not tea-totalers. Neither are we prudes. But the kitschy Broadway crap and the inevitable unconscious (though often subtle) celebration of the unreflective life--they just won't do.
What have you got against mildly inebriated paunchy middle-aged guys in business suits posing with scantily clad long-legged showgirl types?
Wasn't their last one a Vegas-them?
I attended the event. I enjoyed the time I spent there. In case everyone has forgotten the money raised is given out as scholarships to students. The Broadway musical was spectacular. The grilled lamb chops were tasty.
I did see that there were many classified staff which far outweighed the measly 4 or 5 faculty members that attended. Shame on the IVC faculty for being so lame. And do not tell me that the faculty at IVC can not afford a hundred dollar ticket. You spend that much on your monthly cell phone bills.
Someone earlier wrote, "Consider how much more $$$ could be raised if they produced an event that say faculty and staff would actually want to attend"?
It does not matter the faculty at IVC does not support anything except that own egos.
p.s. Republicans have always been known to raise more money for charities that democrats. heheehe
mmm, Bambi chops. Glad you had a good time.
Point of information: this faculty member just writes a check to thr foundation you don't have to wine and dine me to get my ego's money.
So - how many attended?
I heard the outlay was more than the intake might be. (They had to PAY for those lamb chops, baby.)
Beg to differ - it was ALL doanted: the liquor, the lamb chops, the cookies, the labor, the talent. That's what makes events liek these SO wonderful. The spirit of giving!
From what I heard, over three-hundred tix sold. About 10 grand was donated from generous donors just for giving. The "live" auction and "silent" auctions brought in some big bucks too. Made a sizeable profit from that night. Saw one tall classified employee in a suit for the first time.
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