Via DCSOB
In the on going push to name just about anything they can after him, Ronald Reagan’s supporters now want to found Ronald Reagan University.
On the silver screen, he was a college football hero and a cheerleader. He played cadets at two different military academies. He appeared as a zoology professor in the Hollywood classic “Bedtime for Bonzo.” But now America’s only movie-star-turned-president may have another dramatic role in higher education: as the namesake and inspiration for Ronald Reagan University.
Backers of the ambitious plan to build a private university outside Denver that would focus on the former president’s economic and diplomatic principles asked the Colorado legislature this week to endorse the idea. With a 200-acre campus site donated by a prominent Colorado Republican, the plans call for construction to begin next year and a student body of 10,000 to be in classes before the end of the decade.
If they change the name of National Airport back, I say OK by me.
The potential jokes here are endless. I have just one. Why not let R.R.U. be the first place where you can get your education without paying for it? Instead of charging you tuition, the university will just send the bill to your children.
Would there be Hogwart’s-style classes in astrology? “Choosing a spouse who looks good in public to make up for your own idiocy” would definately be a 101 course. And most importantly, will the students start forgetting what they have learned during the sophomore year?