And this year’s Texas Ivory Tower Award goes to…
A tip to the hat to Bryan Preston for catching this comment and also to Will Franklin for bringing it to my attention. In case you didn’t hear Texas’ very own Democrat State Senator Judith Zaffirini recently made the most elitist comment of the year. I personally don’t think this comment can be beat. In fact, I believe we should go ahead and shut down voting and give her the coveted Texas Ivory Tower Award. She really deserves it and I bet she would like to thank her PhD in Communications for helping her earn this prestigious award. You can view her comments below:
QUESTION: Perry graduated from A&M, which initially embraced the “reforms” (although A&M Systems Chancellor Mike McKinney faced a firestorm and resigned last week). Does Perry have something against UT?
ZAFFIRINI: Rick Perry doesn’t understand higher education. He doesn’t have a graduate degree, and he graduated a long time ago with a major in something like agriculture. I have a PhD, so I understand the value of research and teaching. He just doesn’t understand it. In the legislature, we’re used to dealing with regents who love their universities, who bleed orange or red or whatever their colors. These new regents appointed by Perry don’t seem to have any school spirit. They seem suspicious and cynical. They haven’t taken time to understand what the status quo is; they just want to change it.
Well done senator and congratulations!
So does my (soon-to-be) phd in Political Science qualify me to know more about government than the State Senator?
And for the record, I think communications and education are ridiculously easy fields to get PhDs, but what do I know?
1@Michael,
Peggy is right. You don’t have your PhD yet so you don’t know anything. You can start sharing your ideas and thoughts once you walk across the stage and are anointed by thy most high professors.
2Michael, obviously, you know nothing if you don’t have a PhD.
Matt, I am still laughing about the award. I second your nomination and do recommend we close the nomination process. We have a winner here.
We are mere taxpayers, footing the bills for education — how dare we suggest een reforms to make universities more affordabble and more accessible.
3@Peggy Venable,
I’m glad you like the award and I accept your second to officially declare her this years winner.
4Would it be elitist for a medical doctor to say that she understand medicine better than Rick Perry?
Matt, when you’ve served as senator for several decades and work tirelessly on behalf of higher education and a whole bunch of other issues, perhaps then you can say that you know more about government than Senator Zaffirini.
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