Snooki Gets $32,000 To Speak At A College, Nobel Winner Toni Morrison Gets $30,000

by Jon Bershad | 11:20 am, April 1st, 2011

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This is hurting me to type, it really is. Writing a post that, in any way, seems negative about Rutgers University just goes against every fiber in my being. However, this truly depressing “sign of the times” type story is too painful to pass up. Just this past week, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi spoke at my beloved alma mater. In a couple months, Nobel-winning, Beloved author Toni Morrison will be giving the commencement address. Guess who’s getting paid more…

Yeah, The Scoop has the sad, sad details:

“Money for Snooki’s appearance came from the mandatory student activity fee.
Interesting to note, the reality TV star’s $32,000 fee is $2,000 more than Rutgers’ commencement speaker, Nobel-winning novelist Toni Morrison, will get when she addresses graduates this spring.
Snooki’s parting advice to students: ‘Study hard, but party harder.’
I’m thinking Morrison might have a different message come May.”

Look, I know we Rutgers students are sometimes susceptible to going to see terrible, terrible crap (while there, I once starred in a production of Hair that sold out a couple nights), but come on! Giving $32,000 to a reality TV star just to talk about “hair styling” tips is the kind of action that leads other reality TV stars to think $134,000 is an untenable salary. We need to stop encouraging these people! If not, they’ll just keep “writing” novels, “singing” on albums, and “entertaining” at reunion specials.

Of course, maybe I’m just irritated that her lesson was “party harder.” Those was totally my parting words to Rutgers. Seriously, you can read all about it in the last editorial I wrote for the good ol’ Rutgers Review.*

*If you actually go to that link (which I wouldn’t advise), please know that the extreme douchiness of that article was on purpose and did not represent what I was actually like at the time. Although, I was douchey enough to accompany it with a drawing of me flipping off the reader. Ah, college…

Snooki, Toni Morrison

writer

You get what you pay for.
Thelonious Funk

Ah yes, market forces.
writer

Charo was booked up.
BadGenome

That’s absurd. One is a talentless hack, and the other can be seen for free on TV. Why either of them can command any sort of fee is beyond me.
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

Why does this not surprise me? The Jersey TV slut/pig getting paid more than the famous (although boring and pedantic) author? Well, at the moment, that is what the market dictates. Sad, but true.

Welcome to America – the TV Network version! Substance and intelligent discourse totally optional.
WCinWI

Why does Mediaite always tend to gravitate towards bad pics of females? C’mon Mediaite, you can find better photos!
WCinWI

Keeva said:
Why does this not surprise me? The Jersey TV slut/pig getting paid more than the famous (although boring and pedantic) author? Well, at the moment, that is what the market dictates. Sad, but true.

Welcome to America – the TV Network version! Substance and intelligent discourse totally optional.

HAHAHAHAHAHA oh my that was a hoot to read.

Pot meet kettle.
BadGenome

WCinWI said:
Why does Mediaite always tend to gravitate towards bad pics of females? C’mon Mediaite, you can find better photos!

Snooki criticized Obama once because of the tanning tax. Maybe the liberal media has decided she must be destroyed.

Or maybe it’s just impossible to find a good picture of that overfed oompaloompa.
Hunk

Wow, talk about putting lipstick on a pig…
writer

South Park’s version of her actually looked better.
http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

Toni Morrison is an INFAMOUS LEFTY who WRITES THINGS (Zzzzzzzzzzz!!!11) and SNOOKI is a MCCAIN supporter who sees through the Obamessiah’s CRAP!!!!!111 Of COURSE she deserves more money!!!!!!!!!!1111
LibertySister

You know snookie and Obama have so much in common… There fan base are the exact same people.
Maybe they should do a college tour together and put out tour t-shirts.

But I think Snooki might not like this because Obama has a hard time filling up seats at his last college speech and they had to fill them by grabbing people off the street and paying them.
Gasket

Sign of the times.
The Tea Weasel®

LibertySister said:
You know snookie and Obama have so much in common… There fan base are the exact same people.
Maybe they should do a college tour together and put out tour t-shirts.

But I think Snooki might not like this because Obama has a hard time filling up seats at his last college speech and they had to fill them by grabbing people off the street and paying them.

I always look forward to this posters comments. They confirm that taking LSD is a bad idea.
Severian

but … but … Toni Morrison is black!?! Of course she’s worth less. I know this because liberal deeds of racism speak louder than liberal words of equality.
notsofast

Morrison should have been brought up on charges for that awful “Beloved” movie based on her book.
ProObamaAgenda

BadGenome said:
That’s absurd. One is a talentless hack, and the other can be seen for free on TV. Why either of them can command any sort of fee is beyond me.

dammit i try my best not to believe what obermann said about this site being a safe place for morons but then i read your posts……keith was right…..you sir are a moron
Kat

WCinWI said:
Why does Mediaite always tend to gravitate towards bad pics of females? C’mon Mediaite, you can find better photos!

I’m sure she’s very proud of that picture.
Harry Flashman

Wasn’t there a wave of outrage a while back when a California college sheduled bristol Palin to speak about unwed motherhood (for much less money) and the college was forced to cancel her speaking engagement?

Liberal outrage about this one to begin in 3….2…1….

Wait. Let’s try again.

Liberal outrage that Snookie (!) is getting $32,000 to speak about, um, something, and Toni Morrison is getting less to begin….NOW.

I said….NOW. Liberal outrage to begin….

someone shut those crickets up. I can’t hear the liberal outrage.
Kathleen McKinley

Can someone please tell me what Snookie spoke about? Binge drinking? Sluttiness? How to make money off people making fun of you? What? I’m really curious.
OxyCon

She should have gone to Rutgers as the Valtrex spokeswomen!
Nobodys_Stooge

On this scale Glenn Beck would get a gigabazillion.
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

Hunk said:
Wow, talk about putting lipstick on a pig…

Unfair to pigs.

notsofast said:
Morrison should have been brought up on charges for that awful “Beloved” movie based on her book.

Indeed. That movie was a criminal offense against pretty ,much everyome. Then again, Jersey Shore is also a criminal offense against pretty much everyone and Snookie is just offensive.
Nachi

The Murcuhn intellectual acumen – on the march!
Vegoia

First I have to ask, was she booed? I dont know many who like her, she isnt from Jersey either, thankfully. She isnt one drop Italian, more thankfully, she is just a puta sucia from Chile, who is height deprived, overweight and orange. College kids sure have sunk to the the lowest common denominator, her paycheck is more than they’ll get in a year with this current job market.
Vegoia

Indeed. That movie was a criminal offense against pretty ,much everyome. Then again, Jersey Shore is also a criminal offense against pretty much everyone and Snookie is just offensive.

The book is nothing like the movie, I have heard Morrison speak a few times at colleges, Rutgers and Seton Hall.
m_mayhem

BadGenome said:
That’s absurd. One is a talentless hack, and the other can be seen for free on TV. Why either of them can command any sort of fee is beyond me.

Karl Spensen said:
Toni Morrison is an INFAMOUS LEFTY who WRITES THINGS (Zzzzzzzzzzz!!!11) and SNOOKI is a MCCAIN supporter who sees through the Obamessiah’s CRAP!!!!!111 Of COURSE she deserves more money!!!!!!!!!!1111

LibertySister said:
You know snookie and Obama have so much in common… There fan base are the exact same people.Maybe they should do a college tour together and put out tour t-shirts. But I think Snooki might not like this because Obama has a hard time filling up seats at his last college speech and they had to fill them by grabbing people off the street and paying them.

notsofast said:
Morrison should have been brought up on charges for that awful “Beloved” movie based on her book.

You have the choice between a Nobel and Pulitzer winner and a uneducated drunk slut and the teabagging conservatives here side with the drunk slut. That pretty much explains why Faux news is so popular here.
erin

And to think that there are millions of well-qualified people out of work. This piece of trash should just fade away into obliviion. Of course, the way she parties she may not make it to the age of 30.
andthehorseyourodeinon

Boy Rutgers just went way down in my estimation.
MrTPar_taY

Bitch, piss, moan, whine-grow up ‘Crupts-life ain’t fair-LMFAO!!!!!!!!
MrTPar_taY

Snooki is a reality star-Demo’Crupts live in this special little faraway place called “MadeupLand”. Your heroes are all creepy and your ideas smell. LMFAO!!!!!!!!
greg454

Toni Morrison is a stupid Oprah-loving progressive, I’d rather listen to Snooki. Oh, and as for her Nobel prize, guess what? Since Obama won a Peace prize that Nobel prize means nothing.

LEFT BLAMES TERRY JONES FOR MUSLIM TERROR.
http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/04/mediaite-blames-quran-burning-pastor.html
redleaf

MrTPar_taY said:
Snooki is a reality star-Demo’Crupts live in this special little faraway place called “MadeupLand”. Your heroes are all creepy and your ideas smell. LMFAO!!!!!!!!

“Your heroes are all creepy and your ideas smell.”

I’ve never been witness to such an intelligent comment. Sign back on after puberty and maybe you’ll have something insightful to say.
MrTPar_taY

redleaf said:
“Your heroes are all creepy and your ideas smell.”

I’ve never been witness to such an intelligent comment. Sign back on after puberty and maybe you’ll have something insightful to say.

Pipe down Hall Monitor-I’m just having fun jakin’ your chain-zzzzzzz-hooked another! LMFAO!!!!!
illusive man

m_mayhem said:
You have the choice between a Nobel and Pulitzer winner and a uneducated drunk slut and the teabagging conservatives here side with the drunk slut. That pretty much explains why Faux news is so popular here.

What the hell are you talking about?
the left is responsible for snooki’s “celebrity” status.
You will never see a self respecting Libertarian or conservative watch MTV
Snooki is your ilk’s fault.
MrTPar_taY

illusive man said:
What the hell are you talking about?
the left is responsible for snooki’s “celebrity” status.
You will never see a self respecting Libertarian or conservative watch MTV
Snooki is your ilk’s fault.

Whenever I think of this country’s current ruling party I get very “ilk”.
Paleoconservatarian

Who even has the temerity to raise their hand in an academic environment and openly, in front of everyone, suggest “Snooki?”
MrTPar_taY

Paleoconservatarian said:
Who even has the temerity to raise their hand in an academic environment and openly, in front of everyone, suggest “Snooki?”

Can this country go down the tubes any further?
timcajun

m_mayhem says:
You have the choice between a Nobel and Pulitzer winner and a uneducated drunk slut and the teabagging conservatives here side with the drunk slut. That pretty much explains why Faux news is so popular here.
…………………….
You should be “shamed” for speaking of Bristol Palin in such a manner! How dare you!
MrTPar_taY

timcajun said:
m_mayhem says:
You have the choice between a Nobel and Pulitzer winner and a uneducated drunk slut and the teabagging conservatives here side with the drunk slut. That pretty much explains why Faux news is so popular here.
…………………….
You should be “shamed” for speaking of Bristol Palin in such a manner! How dare you!

Did you just mess yourself?
TrinityTA

no idea whether or not this is an April Fool’s joke, BUT you’ve got a factual error in your post. it’s not 134k that dear Scott can’t live on, but $174k.
TrinityTA

of course, i meant, Sean, not Scott (sigh).
am_underground

HO’s before Prose, got to love our college campuses today. A “Snooki” is what they want to here, God help this country.
Nationman

BadGenome said:
That’s absurd. One is a talentless hack, and the other can be seen for free on TV. Why either of them can command any sort of fee is beyond me.

it’s the free market bro, encouraging intelligence. That’s how you got where you’re at right?
Snidely

Hey, Snooki is really cute, and Toni Morison is really old. Lots more market value in really cute than in really old.