First of all, let’s raise a little more money for Four Directions in Arizona:
Then, please help me come up with a name for Bari Weiss’s new “university” in Austin. So far I’ve got Glenn State and William and Bari. Other ideas?
by DougJ| 82 Comments
This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Political Fundraising 2021-22
First of all, let’s raise a little more money for Four Directions in Arizona:
Then, please help me come up with a name for Bari Weiss’s new “university” in Austin. So far I’ve got Glenn State and William and Bari. Other ideas?
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Steeplejack
The Sorebonne.
Xavier
Intellectual Dark University
Soprano2
Who do they think will attend their seminars? Because that’s what they’re doing, holding seminars. What idiots.
Call it Snowflake U.
jeffreyw
Whatsamatter U
CaseyL
Miskatoxic U
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@jeffreyw: yes!
Mike in NC
My only time in the Lone Star State was three weeks at Ft. Hood (hopefully to be renamed next year) in 2005, where I got stuck with the midnight shift on a joint forces exercise. The nearby town of Killeen was basically OK. I was able to get off a day and visit the Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg.
Tom Levenson
Midvale School for the Gifted
Tom Levenson
@Tom Levenson: Thiel Community College.
Hunter Gathers
Trump University
Ignoramus University
The University of Caucasian Fragility
Motivated Seller
UT Bari
(H/T Scott Lemieux)
West of the Rockies
@Tom Levenson:
Whatever the name, they should be called The Fighting A-holes.
NYCMT
University of Austin Allegro.
Tom Levenson
@West of the Rockies: The Lyrebirds.
jeffreyw
@Tom Levenson: pule to enter
Beemer
Nutter Dame
Shana
@Tom Levenson: You win.
DougJ
@Beemer:
I like this one.
BigJimSlade
The “school” name: Con U.
dnfree
@Tom Levenson: Now that’s hilarious! A tribute to Far Side is always in order.
bbleh
Scamford
dnfree
Can the University of Texas at Austin sue for confusion?
There are certainly a lot of people associated with this who already are affiliated with other universities. Is that kosher?
Yutsano
@jeffreyw: Y u hate Bullwinkle? :P
@DougJ: For this earworm, I shan’t forgive thee.
Shakti
The Pyramidion University at Ponzi
prostratedragon
Good ones. I’d go with Sorebun myself, but my favorite so far is definitely Nutter Dame.
HumboldtBlue
Whatevee the school name I vote for the nickname to be The Cancelled.
They can have a mascot dressed as Qaaron Rodgers.
evap
@Yutsano: Really? It’s one of my favorite Doobie Bros songs. It could be a lot worse….
NotMax
Obnoxford.
RaflW
Bari’ly College
Melville
The University of Austin -Texas. umm…ok. I guess their mascot will be the LongCons. The chant of course would be “Fook ’em”. The hand gesture.. well you can figure that one for yourself.
prostratedragon
According to Campos at LGM the chancellor of WVU has already found it necessary to try to explain to his campus community why he is advising someone who thinks the American university is a broken institution.
West of the Cascades
mascot: UATX Brandons
ian
Ain’tcreddited College
Suzanne
ITT Wreck.
RaflW
Nothingham University
HumboldtBlue
@RaflW:
Hah!
Jerzy Russian
@DougJ: If this was a Little League game we would stop it right here.
RaflW
@HumboldtBlue: Ham Rove will be the first provost. Oh, wait, he’s dead.
prostratedragon
@Melville: It’s always bugged me how nakedly these guys tend to announce their intentions, as if with a lurid wink. Remember the Macondo oil prospect in the Gulf? Nixon’s Committe to Re-Elect the President? The Antonin Scalia School? Maybe they just can’t help displaying what they are.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@RaflW: nice!
Omnes Omnibus
I don’t know about the rest, but it has to have a Dunning-Kruger Business School. Or would that be the J School?
mvr
Will their recruitment lit and website promise that their students only fail upward?
Given the faculty it would be credible.
scav
How bout a Latin motto to polish their credentials?
a falsis principiis proficisci
Kalakal
Foxbridge
Kalakal
Idleberg
Dur!ham
Dr Professor College Phd
NotMax
Galtimore U.?
scav
UAreToXic
Poe Larity
I don’t want to speak ill of local tradition, but was thinking Eeyore U.
NotMax
School mascot: Grifty McGriftface.
steve g
What’s up, Doc. Just call it Weiss University.
piratedan
Sanctimonious U
mvr
@mvr: I gather that I was wrong to think that list is all faculty. I guess it is the board of advisors I was mostly reacting to.
eclare
@Tom Levenson: “Midvale School for the Gifted”, perfect!
WaterGirl
@eclare: That guys is good. Maybe he should take up writing for a living!
Dan B
@RaflW: And would the cheer for their football team (all hired, of course) be, “A Ham in no one’s pot!” Maybe they should go with the Lucy version, “A Ham in every pot!” Snatches it out of pot.
eclare
@WaterGirl: I hear that he is being recognized more and more…
Poe Larity
Oh, I didn’t even know who Weiss was. Given it’s Texas, how about Storm University? Maybe a Jewish Laser Physics dept? A Trump School of Medicine? A merged Veterinary and Virology dept, or has A&M already done that? A QAnon School of Journalism?
RSA
Controverting the article a bit, the UATX Web site does promise for 2024…
They’re delusional. I notice that of the high-profile names associated with UATX, only a couple have any experience in undergraduate teaching. They want to get a high-quality program off the ground, from scratch, in three years? Against real liberal arts colleges that have been producing for centuries? I don’t think so.
Oh, right, the name. I think it should actually be Austin Texas University, or Attacks U., for short.
Jay
Failed State.
Yutsano
@evap: Weird. I answered you awhile ago.
The song is great! “China Grove” is part of my childhood spinning Dad’s records while he was out to sea. The song itself, however, is going to be stuck in my head. All. Night.
ChrsitianPinko
@eclare: Shouldn’t that be “Midvale School for the Grifted”?
Dan B
@ChrsitianPinko: So Wrong! They’d be teaching how to give money to the poors!! To the poors!!!?
Oh the humanity!!!!!
RepubAnon
Pygmalion University?
Narcissist is Us?
Dan B
@ChrsitianPinko: Inoted of sucking money out of the poors they’d be blowing beautiful greenbacks and NFT’s at them. After all the Econ Dept would be backwards, I tell you! Because you can’t spell grifted without gifted!!
jamey
Jale
eclare
@ChrsitianPinko: That’s good!
scav
Pale.
Misterpuff
University of Weiss Con Some
vhh
Andrew Sullivan is afflicted by the disease of Conservative Tendentiousness, in which an author tosses out some half considered hipshot on something he knows little about. When said zinger turns out to be partially to mostly wrong or outright offensive, the writer issues a series of modifications, caveats, or excuses (often weak) or if all else fails, says , aw shucks, he/she did not really mean it, no hard feelings, just a joke, you liberals have no sense of humor.. You see the same behavior regularly in National Review Fox, and other wingnut outlets.
One of the most hilarious of the poseurs is Dinesh D’Souza, who managed to descend from the wingnut welfare circuit (where he wrote books about things like how American liberals were responsible for 9/11s the rage of Obama, and a conspiracy theory movie about Hillary Clinton ) to getting fired (for adultery) from the Presidency of the über-Christian, morallistic The King’s College (name nicked from Columbia the original King’s College) to a prison sentence for illegal campaign contributions. At one point he was making ads for Christmas tree accessories.
Andrew made his first pile on his blog (which was notable for his simultaneous support of the death-to-gays GOP even as he wrote tomes arguing for gay marriage. The blog was occasionally interesting, when he talked of things like living with HIV, the joys of dogs and getting married. But Andrew and his readers seemed to lose interest in each other, and he retreated to Provincetown and Substack, where only paying readers get access and there are no editors to contend with.
Andrew has been fired by a series of major press outlets. I guess he needs money, so he has started this Trump U for Pseudo Intellectual Poseurs with Bari Weiss. I wonder how many students this venture will sink into Federal Student Loan debt…..but hey, it’s Texas, home of Louie Gohmert and Ted Cruz, who are competing in issuing whack job statements.
Downpuppy
Plano II : Electric Boogaloo
rmjohnston
Keep Digging U.
Trump U. II
Green Lump of Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning U.
Snowflake U.
Screaming Silence U.
RevRick
UCON
O. Felix Culpa
From a commenter at LGM (can’t find the citation right now):
Intellectual Horse Paste University
lowtechcyclist
The Sorebone.
@ChrsitianPinko:
This is my favorite! Adding that one little letter to the Far Side reference makes it perfect.
Honorable mentions (IMHO, of course):
jonas
@Tom Levenson:
I see what you did there.
MuckJagger
Given some of the egos involved, “Austin Me” would be better than “Austin U.”
Brant
HardFart
Miss Bianca
@RSA: Wait, they’re planning to teach *liberal* arts?
Kenneth Fair
@Miss Bianca: The first part of teaching “liberal arts” will be to name it “conservative arts.”
Kenneth Fair
Since Texas already has both “The University of Texas at Austin” and “Stephen F. Austin University,” naming it “Austin University” sure seems problematic to me. But I guess the consumer confusion is a feature, not a bug.
Someone should convince them that their mascot should be “Bucky the Beaver.” That would start the school off with a bang.
MuckJagger
Fake Forest
Puke University
Fartmouth College
Steeplejack (phone)
@Tom Levenson:
Twitter delivers for Levenson.