Tuesday, September 19, 2006

P.S. Send money

I see in the papers that a businessman has donated over TEN MILLION DOLLARS to the writing center at Miami University, and I wonder: how can our writing center get hold of money like that? In this case the donor noticed that a large number of job applicants suffered from very poor writing skills, so he decided to improve the quality of his applicant pool by donating money to Miami U's writing center. This suggests that if we want someone to make a big donation--and it need not be $10 million; we'd settle for one-tenth of that--what we need to do is foist upon the public a plethora of graduates whose writing skills would make a human resource manager run screaming from the room. Eventually, someone is bound to notice and donate some big bucks.

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