Snooki picked up a cool $32,000 for doing a speaking engagement at New Jersey’s Rutgers University this week, and of course people are freaking out about it and trying to deny the woman the money she earned. The hubbub is over two things: 1) Snooki got paid two grand more than Toni Morrison will when she speaks to a packed stadium at the school’s commencement in May, 2) Rutgers University is technically a state school, so people are trying to angle this like the school spent state money on this appearance.
The school’s official statement about Snooki’s speech and the appearance fee was released yesterday. The Rutgers programming association says they “made the decision to invite Snooki and her comedy act to the campus based on input from students. No state funds or tuition money are used for these events. The university does not censor the speakers students choose to invite to campus.”
I’m of the opinion that the most offensive part of this story is that they called Snooki’s speech a “comedy act,” not that she’s making that much money for meeting the demands of people who want to see her live. It’s so great how we do this to the people we make famous, guys. We pay them tons of attention and then say, “What are you doing, acting famous? All we did is make you one of the biggest TV stars out there and put you on the cover of magazines and buy your book. Why would you think you can actually, like, make money for this stuff?”
We made Snooki happen. We’re all a part of this. Let’s not go after Rutgers or the Snookster because we’re unhappy with the state of our cultural climate.
No. Just no. It doesn’t matter who created the star, there is no reason this woman should be making more money than Toni Morrison! Toni Morrison has won both a Pulitzer and a Noble Prize. Her writing has profoundly impacted American literature and her work is studied in universities across the nation, not to mention she is one of the most influential African Americans that is still living! To have her be paid less than Snooki, whose claim to fame is basically being a drunken whore who resembles an oompa loompa on some crappy show on MTV, is just disturbing. If I were Toni Morrison, I would be highly offended.
FUCK! RUN! It’s blowing all it’s cooties over here!
Who the hell cares? It’s the choice of the school, as long as tuition isn’t rising because of the said appearance everyone should just shut the hell up and move on. My school is having Bruno Mars perform and I don’t think that ass wipe deserves the $100,000 he’s receiving for it but am I going to start a goddamn riot over it? no.
The state is not providing the money, nor is it coming from tuition fees paid by the students. It would be nice to know where the money is coming from though. But, if the state isn’t paying and the fees aren’t coming from tuition, I’d just tell the haters to piss off.
this so bad look at her i mean this is happened again this so bad because the streets are not so bad with all that trafic and stuff why are people doing this again huh all i want to say is PLEASE STOP!!!!!!!!!!! OK please we why why why this is so bad
Hey guys-look it up. Snooks is Not Italian. She is a Native American from Chile(Santiago to be exact) who was adopted by an Italian Family when she was 6 mo. Ask her mom and Dad, they were there.
Good for her. If they will pay that idiot Sarah Palin to speak, then this chick should be paid more. Besides she has huge hooters and that is worth the fee just to see them. I’ll bet she is great in bed too.
Snooki is silly