Putting the Cunt in Country Club

[thewalrus]

http://jezebel.com/5888032/alum-tells-s ... ting-poors

To the Editor,

I am the president of the Smith Club of Westchester County. I enjoy reading the Sophian online because it helps me stay abreast of developments at the school.

I read your article about [President] Carol [Christ]'s resignation and it had some interesting statistics. It mentioned the percentage increase in the population of women of color and foreign students. The gist of the article was that one of Carol's objectives coming into the position was to increase diversity and the article gave statistics that showed that she did.

As someone who has followed admissions for many years, I can tell you how the school is viewed by students in Westchester and Fairfield Counties. First, these counties are some of the wealthiest in the country. The children have parents who are highly educated and accomplished and have high household incomes. The children are programmed from day one to get into Ivy League schools.

To this demographic, Smith is a safety school. Also, very few of these students want to go to a single sex school. With the exception of Wellesley, it is not hard to get into the Seven Sisters any more. The reason why Wellesley is more selective is because it is smaller than Smith and in a better geographic location – Boston beats Northampton.

The people who are attending Smith these days are A) lesbians or B) international students who get financial aid or C) low-income women of color who are the first generation in their family to go to college and will go to any school that gives them enough money. Carol emphasizes that this is one of her goals, and so that's why the school needs more money for scholarships or D) white heterosexual girls who can't get into Ivy League schools.

Smith no longer looks at SATs because if it did, it would have to report them to U.S. News & World Report. Low-income black and Hispanic students generally have lower SATs than whites or Asians of any income bracket. This is an acknowledged fact because they don't have access to expensive prep classes or private tutors.

To accomplish [President Christ's] mission of diversity, the school is underweighting SAT scores. This phenomenon has been widely discussed in the New York Times Education section. If you reduce your standards for grades and scores, you drop in the rankings, although you have accomplished a noble social objective. Smith has one of the highest diversity rates in the country.

I can tell you that the days of white, wealthy, upper-class students from prep schools in cashmere coats and pearls who marry Amherst men are over. This is unfortunate because it is this demographic that puts their name on buildings, donates great art and subsidizes scholarships.

-Anne Spurzem '84

Dear Place I Spent My Youth,

Things are not as good as they were when I was young, because my youth was the Best Time Ever.

I would like the world to reward me for my circumstances, despite the fact that I had nothing to do with them. They are still mine and I demand validation for them. Life is a game I won it, can't you see that? Everyone loves me, or is intimidated by me, which means that everything is the way it should be.

The fact that you have shown approval to people who do not look like me, act like me, and are clearly not Life Winners like me hurts my feelings. Make them go away and restore my sense of superiority.

If you carry on including people based on their ability to thrive in an academic environment instead of their upper-class status, I will no longer be able to lord my credentials over other people. This will not stand.

Keep putting the cunt in country club,
Selfish Racist Homophobic Narcissist

[deselby]

Ha, good one.

It hasn't been safe to express that kind of privileged whine for 50 years, but every once in awhile someone who lives in a bubble will pop out of it and give it a shot.

The other Anne Spurzem, the one who is a state legislator in Rhineland-Pfalz, will be chagrined by this next time she checks her name on Google.

[LechoZX]

The fact that you have shown approval to people who do not look like me, act like me, and are clearly not Life Winners like me hurts my feelings. Make them go away and restore my sense of superiority.

If you carry on including people based on their ability to thrive in an academic environment instead of their upper-class status, I will no longer be able to lord my credentials over other people. This will not stand.

That is exactly it.

[JITW]

No one said life was easy if you are white and rich - I place this right up there with too many lights from a reliable power gird


~JITW

[friendlyskies]

Pathetic. What a useless, whining, waste of carbon. People always complain that these folks get murdered during revolutions, like that's a bad thing. "Ooh, Che Guevara was a murderer why do you have him on your shirt waaah."

But it cleans up the gene pool! People like this are too stupid to waste resources on, am I right? This letter is reason enough to take out her whole line, idiots like this don't breed scientists or artists, just more poncy bastards for the neptocracy. Marry an Amherst guy and sit in some posh little room with your posh little dogs and write fucking retarded complainy shit to people who actually accomplish things and work hard? Nice life, dumbass. These are the people that stole our space program so they could buy more shoes and frankly, if the revolution comes and I see her head on a spike somewhere, I'll remember this little letter and not feel a bit bad.

[LechoZX]

No one said life was easy if you are white and rich - I place this right up there with too many lights from a reliable power gird

http://www.hulu.com/watch/317011/saturd ... e-problems

[Bobby Sands]

You guys are pissed because someone wrote their alma mater's newspaper to complain about the drop in prestige of old-line, New England, single-sex schools that ignore SAT scores so they can fill admissions spots with low-income minority women who tend to score poorly on the SAT?

Shit, the only thing wrong with the letter was that the author didn't point out that this school can pull the "we don't look at SAT scores" shit because the Federal Gov't has been going nuts with the Federally guaranteed student loans and thereby allowing dinosaur schools to continue on with their single-sex liberal arts nonsense that only benefits the insulated, pampered faculty. If any of you gave shit-one about minority women who get suckered into taking out $100-200k in student loans, you'd be pissed at Smith as well... pimping minority women with promises of the good life, and then indoctrinating them with years of Victims Study programs, and leaving them with a massive student loan debt load that cannot be repaid with a Starbucks salary. And, you know, you cannot discharge student loans with a bankruptcy filing.

[LechoZX]

You guys are pissed because someone wrote their alma mater's newspaper to complain about the drop in prestige of old-line, New England, single-sex schools that ignore SAT scores so they can fill admissions spots with low-income minority women who tend to score poorly on the SAT?

Shit, the only thing wrong with the letter was that the author didn't point out that this school can pull the "we don't look at SAT scores" shit because the Federal Gov't has been going nuts with the Federally guaranteed student loans and thereby allowing dinosaur schools to continue on with their single-sex liberal arts nonsense that only benefits the insulated, pampered faculty. If any of you gave shit-one about minority women who get suckered into taking out $100-200k in student loans, you'd be pissed at Smith as well... pimping minority women with promises of the good life, and then indoctrinating them with years of Victims Study programs, and leaving them with a massive student loan debt load that cannot be repaid with a Starbucks salary. And, you know, you cannot discharge student loans with a bankruptcy filing.

Not pissed, just laughing about the attitude of the author, but way to infer something that's not there so you can claim misdirected moral righteousness.

[Bobby Sands]

You guys are pissed because someone wrote their alma mater's newspaper to complain about the drop in prestige of old-line, New England, single-sex schools that ignore SAT scores so they can fill admissions spots with low-income minority women who tend to score poorly on the SAT?

Shit, the only thing wrong with the letter was that the author didn't point out that this school can pull the "we don't look at SAT scores" shit because the Federal Gov't has been going nuts with the Federally guaranteed student loans and thereby allowing dinosaur schools to continue on with their single-sex liberal arts nonsense that only benefits the insulated, pampered faculty. If any of you gave shit-one about minority women who get suckered into taking out $100-200k in student loans, you'd be pissed at Smith as well... pimping minority women with promises of the good life, and then indoctrinating them with years of Victims Study programs, and leaving them with a massive student loan debt load that cannot be repaid with a Starbucks salary. And, you know, you cannot discharge student loans with a bankruptcy filing.

Not pissed, just laughing about the attitude of the author, but way to infer something that's not there so you can claim misdirected moral righteousness.

Oh, OK, so you didn't like her tone but you're OK with the content?

Yeah, as for me, I do read between the lines. She is pointing out that (a) a lot of these old-guard, New England, single-sex liberal arts colleges have lost their core constituency (WASP women going to college so that they make suitable mates for Ivy League WASPs who need a cultured wife for social status), and that (b) these single-sex liberal arts colleges have filled the empty seats with lesbos and minorities, and that (c) in order to accept the numbers of minorities they need, they have reduced or eliminated standards like the SAT, and that (d) the school gets less donations because old, stodgy white people are still the big spenders when it comes to paying for libraries n' shit.

I extrapolated on her points by pointing out that the black women getting suckered into taking out $150k in student loan debt to pay for the WASP pedigree of Smith are getting screwed because (a) they are getting a non-functional education in terms of earning opportunities after college, and (b) they can get a degree from Smith, but no one is going to mistake them for a WASP even after they learn which fork to use for the salad course and which spoon is for the soup.

[LechoZX]

Not pissed, just laughing about the attitude of the author, but way to infer something that's not there so you can claim misdirected moral righteousness.

Oh, OK, so you didn't like her tone but you're OK with the content?

Yeah, as for me, I do read between the lines. She is pointing out that (a) a lot of these old-guard, New England, single-sex liberal arts colleges have lost their core constituency (WASP women going to college so that they make suitable mates for Ivy League WASPs who need a cultured wife for social status), and that (b) these single-sex liberal arts colleges have filled the empty seats with lesbos and minorities, and that (c) in order to accept the numbers of minorities they need, they have reduced or eliminated standards like the SAT, and that (d) the school gets less donations because old, stodgy white people are still the big spenders when it comes to paying for libraries n' shit.

I extrapolated on her points by pointing out that the black women getting suckered into taking out $150k in student loan debt to pay for the WASP pedigree of Smith are getting screwed because (a) they are getting a non-functional education in terms of earning opportunities after college, and (b) they can get a degree from Smith, but no one is going to mistake them for a WASP even after they learn which fork to use for the salad course and which spoon is for the soup.

Actually I agree with you about colleges suckering people into taking on dept with promises of being able to pay it back easily because their job opportunities will be so great. I think I posted something about that on another thread, but that is not the point of the letter. She is upset because the evolving demographic of the school is making HER look bad. That is why we were enjoying it. That is all.

[kilroy]

she does come off as a bit of a snarky bitch, but if you read what she's actually saying she has a point. from my reading i didn't get that she was saying that the school needs to get back to the good ol days or that the goal of diversification was bad. in fact (unless she was just being sarcastic and i missed it) she said what carol christ was trying to do was a noble goal. she was just pointing out that that actions schools take to increase diversity (underweighting SAT scores, etc) tend to lower their rankings/prestige level among the wealthy elite that provide these schools with the vast majority of they money they get to sustain themselves, and so that wealthy elite goes elsewhere. and that if this happens the school starts failing and sucking. once that happens, you get things like people putting pressure on the president of the school to resign. so it seemed to me she was just lamenting an unfortunate state of affairs, while being an ironic dick at the same time.

[vagabond]

she was just lamenting an unfortunate state of affairs, while being an ironic dick at the same time.

A candidate for the BFC then

[Kurt]

Che didn't execute the rich and snobby, he let them buy their freedom and then used that money to bribe the garrison of a city (forget which one now) to leave. It was a smart move for someone with zero military skills but after that was when he exectuted people and proclaimed trials to be pointless.

I'll take Wanda The WASP and her opinionated tad-bit-racist letters to the editor anyday to Che and his rejection of due process after taking a city with no more defenders.

[Jefe]

Snarky Bitch. LMAO. Sounds like swearing at the former days of the school would sound like.

I didn't mind her letter so much.

Snarky, just snarky...

I am thinking about doing TESOL work in my old age and I could have a field day with it. A whole crop of youngsters growing up saying "just busting you chops you snarky old bitch!" Sleeper agents, unwittingly armed with language to offend without them even knowing its offensive.

Kind of like the Manchurian Candidates onlly at the TESOL level.

Maybe even a movie....

[thewalrus]

It's greatly amusing to provide a basic understanding of English slang (like: What is a "Reacharound"?) to ESL students.