What's next? I don't know, do you? Who am I? I am someone who makes films. What do I do? I look through viewfinders. And how do I live? I live by the skin of my teeth.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Admission Applications Must Contain Donation Checks

A place in the incoming freshman class at the elite universities are up for sale to those with the deepest pockets.

There was story about how Ralph Lauren's kids got wined & dined by a university stringpuller named Joel Fleischman at Duke University, and eventually Lauren pledged a six figure sum to Duke and Stringpuller Fleischman got a seat on Lauren's board of directors!!!!

They have these things called "development admits" -- students who have poor academic marks, but a high propensity for a financial donation from the family -- these muthafuckas get up in to schools pretty much no questions asked, just as long as a blank check was written.

The elite have unprecendented access to the avenues to the power centers in this country (doesn't matter if it's Hollywood, the Beltway, Wall Street or Madision Avenue) it's the same select group for people who continue to run shit, shape shit, design shit and choose who gets ignored...

And yet we CLAIM to live in a country where the "power of the people" means something. That line of propaganda has to be broadcast high and wide, 'cause the Average Joe would be rioting in the streets more often, and demanding peoples heads on stakes the way they did during the French Revolution...

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