16. September 2004 • Brian Kerr
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Human beings across campus have just received what appears to be an early draft of an e-mail announcing President Coleman’s address next week:
President Mary Sue Coleman will present her first university-wide address on Monday, September 20, in Rackham Auditorium, from 3:15-4:00 PM. All students, faculty, staff, and other friends of the University are invited to attend.
She will discuss her priorities and aspirations for the University, current initiatives underway, and the future opportunities and challenges facing the University of Michigan.
A reception in the lobby of the Rackham Building will follow her address.
This event is co-sponsored by the Faculty Senate and the Office of the President.
One initiative not currently underway—English 125. For the morbid, the text of this message appears to be a mangled expansion of the Record’s event announcement (which itself contains at least one extra instance of that long-suffering word, ‘at’).
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I remember Coleman and Granholm both coming to Michigan at the same time, and all the lefties were dancing in the streets.
Not what you all expected, eh?
Brian White was the best guy for the job. Duderstadt was the best guy then too. Maybe the next one will be good too, and hopefully that will come sooner than later.
—T.J. Sep. 16 '04 - 02:56AM #
* http://arborupdate.com/article/224/#c000966
—Brian Sep. 16 '04 - 08:17AM #
—Ben Sep. 16 '04 - 10:33AM #
Grow up, dude.
—T.J. Sep. 16 '04 - 12:41PM #
Regardless, the post was hardly grounds for suggesting that a handful of grammatical errors makes Coleman unqualified for the job, let alone an excuse for what I presume T.J. intended to be an scathingly insightful conservative riposte about liberals and lefties.
—Andrew Sep. 16 '04 - 12:57PM #
Just that Coleman went from being a champion of the liberal cause and hero to the liberal masses to a constant target for ridicule.
She’s done a bad job, and after the way the lefties celebrated when she was hired, I think we have the right to rub your noses in it when it turns out you were wrong.
Take your lumps.
—T.J. Sep. 16 '04 - 01:07PM #
I’ll take that as a compliment. :)
While I suppose it’s (ostensibly) good to have redundant event notices shotgun-blasted into e-mail inboxes across campus, and while it is certainly notable that this one is actually short enough to scan, read, and retain, I don’t understand why it wasn’t proofread before sent. If it looks half-assed, it’ll leave a half-assed impression—or at least that’s how it works for this recipient.
Pick, pick, pick!
—Brian Sep. 16 '04 - 01:34PM #
—Mark Sep. 16 '04 - 01:36PM #
You – meaning you.
Liberals – meaning liberals.
It’s not rocket surgery, Einstein.
—T.J. Sep. 17 '04 - 01:50AM #
—Eric Sep. 17 '04 - 12:57PM #
—T.J. Sep. 17 '04 - 01:10PM #
I didn’t see the point; the original post was about the grammatical errors, and the first response you had was “This was the woman all you liberals so badly wanted.”
I gotta say, whoever you are, you are doing a pretty good job of impersonating T.J. You have the poor memory and spittle-spewing frustration nearly perfected! two thumbs up
—Eric Sep. 17 '04 - 01:13PM #
fighting hurrican ivan,
ari p.
—Ari P. Sep. 17 '04 - 02:00PM #
My atheistic quasi-prayers be with you. And also with you. And also with you.
—Eric Sep. 17 '04 - 04:23PM #