Pax Arcana
The journalism school at Western Kentucky University is about to get its own bagel shop, and some people aren’t too pleased about it. This marks the first time any organization associated with the profession of journalism has tried to put distance between itself and low-cost food.
Why?
Because bagels, by their very nature, will have a deleterious effect on the future of Western Kentucky’s journalism program. Or something. I don’t know. Here’s some cheesed off prof trying to make sense of the anti-bagel position:
“This building is for journalism and broadcasting, not bagels and coffee,” said assistant broadcasting professor James LeTourneau.
Um. Okay. That didn’t really make sense. Anyone else care to give it a shot?
“I plan to boycott Einstein simply because now we have no space to use for traditions anymore,” Johnson said. “It diminishes the integrity of the school as an academic unit and as instructional technology.”
Other professors and students worry that bagel shop patrons will damage expensive equipment and leave trash all over the place. They may have a point, because this is all going down in Kentucky, where the “cameras” they use are shoe boxes with keg cups stapled on them, and the “microphones” are toilet brushes taped to extension cords.
We keed! We keed!
Not really.
Bagel shop causes concerns for some journalism faculty [College Heights Herald]
7 Comments
February 19, 2008 at 2:23 pm
There is no way I could have successfully completed my stint at BU’s journo school without the nearby bagel joint–and its delicious espresso double-shots. What are these idiots thinking? God save us all from Kentucky.
February 19, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I notice they said Einsteins. These people obviously have never tasted a breakfast sangwidge from there before. It is divine.
February 19, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Weird to say, but I think Einstein’s and Finagle both produce pretty quality bagels. Not like Zabar’s or anything, but still pretty damn tasty.
And I could not have made it through BU without Nud Pob. I still dream about that place.
February 19, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I’ve never heard of Einstein’s as a bagel place…I thought they were just boycotting prominent physicists as some cross-departmental revenge. I lead a confusing life.
February 19, 2008 at 2:55 pm
A confusing and sheltered life, apparently.
Aah, the crispy pad thai at Nud Pob. Those were the days, my friend. Days of mustaches, Julius Echter hefe weizen, darts and crispy pad thai. Those were the days.
February 19, 2008 at 3:05 pm
I grew up in Maine.
February 19, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Not sure where Einstein’s are based, but they had them in Colorado when I lived out there. Maybe they’re a midwestern thing? I’ll check….
…looks like they’ve got shops at BU, Bentley, and in Lowell. There are only five locations in Eastern Mass.