Secrets of the City

Although CHEEBA received $2,300 from the student government, it was for an event “designed around the legal activity of advocating for marijuana legalization, not the illegal activity of smoking marijuana,” he said.

Evidently, that expensive Mac education doesn’t include a course on how to recognize bullshit when you are stoned.

The student organizers, members of the official campus club CHEEBA (Creating a Harmless Environment to Enjoy Buds Appropriately), were unavailable for comment.

They were probably to busy down at the “official” clubhouse piercing each others ears or working on their skateboards. I wonder if they have thought about the Harmless Environment that they have already Created for people in Latin and South America due thier Inappropriate Enjoyment of Buds (HECIEB). They’ve already done so much for social justice, i just can’t see how they can do much more.

I blame Stone and Hoppe, who obviously have a chip on their shoulder resulting from their last names.

Hey, way to wait until the last possible moment to nip it in the….no, I won’t. I won’t, I won’t, I won’t say it.

In the Bud Jr.?

Now that the party was shut down, I hope that those kids go spend their parents’ money at Galactic.

But I was gonna play harmonica with my friend’s jam band at that thing tonight! I’m no jam band fan, but I’m a playing harmonica with friends fan!

They were probably to busy down at the “official” clubhouse piercing each others ears or working on their skateboards.

Does the public (or just Harry) really think that this is what people who smoke pot do/look like? Doesn’t anybody watch Showtime?

I don’t mind the self-righteous Mac students getting their buzz on and, you know, solving the worlds problems, but could we please for the love of god stop the jam bands and their damn potchuli stank!

Think of the children!

Not when there’s late night Skinemax on.

wonder what those little Macalester brats would do if the boys involved in the upper end of the supply chain and busness development showed up at their little playground

If you guys reschedule your show, I’ll come see it. *slap*

Man, all that time spent making brownies for the bake sale…

But come on people, given that I’d bet a good percentage of folks on this site are white professionals making decent money, bitching about Mac students seems kind of petty. Can’t we reserve our bile for a group that deserves it? Like people that go to Chino Latino and Drink regularly?

It’s not “you guys,” it is “those guys” – but definitely check them out. I’ve been friends with their bassist for years and he stops by my band’s shows and sits in now and again and has so graciously extended the same invitation to me and my harps.

And I wonder if pot were legal whether the guys higher up the supply chain would perhaps be out of business…or working for ATF in enforcement.

I’ll take the most patchouli-stinking hacky-sacking Built to Spill bearded Macalester postcolonial anti-industrial cultural studies major over the most dirty golf hatted weightlifting Buzz Aldrin St. Thomas business major any and every day of the week.

I’d rather bitch about the people shooting at each other’s cars downtown.

hhhhmmm i’ll bet there’s a connection (6 degress of separation or less?) between the downtown shootings and the little baggie that some Mac student has stuffed in his backpack

I like everything about the hippie scene except for the jam bands.

Ev’ry rose does have its thorn…

I like how the hippie girls dance: all wavvy armed. The hippy girl dance hasn’t evolved in over 30 years. It’s as classic as the foxtrot.

And as hot!

I don’t even know if I meant that sarcastically.

For those of us who havent lived in the Twin Cities all our lives can someone provide a stereotype primer. I am picking a lot of it up here in bits but it would be helpfull all at once so I can refer back. Someone can start with a description of the student bodies at each college. In the perfect stereotype world how does a “Mac” student differ from a St. Olaf, Carleton, U of M, Hamline, Augsburg, Concordia, or St. Thomas student (did I miss some)? Maybe after colleges we can get to highschools, neighborhoods, religions, political parties, and races.

having played eons ago in a jam band I can tell you with authority that “dank bud” and “that post-shower fresh feeling” should never go into the same sentence. See what I mean?

I’d rather bitch about how I couldn’t even get to macalester if I wanted to because no one will build a train down University Ave.

or maybe the shooting cars thing, too. That’s pretty local to me.

Ooo, tbartel and I compete in MIAC stereotypes as sport.

St. Olaf – Holy….during the week. Freshly scrubbed.
Carleton – Frustrated they didn’t get into the Ivy Leagues (booyah! take that Matt!)
Hamline – City school in a little city.
U of M – “There are other colleges in Minnesota?”
Augsburg – City school. Sports. Nurses.
Concordia – Not Moorehead.
St. Thomas – “You may hate me, but I own you.”

Here’s a start:

Mac – Priviledged hippie, self-righteous and better than you. In my way when I’m driving down Grand Ave.
St. Thomas – MBA wannabe or blond airhead. Always getting in my way on Summit, bastards.
St. Olaf – big boned with the feeling of insecurity
Carleton – like Mac, but -5% rastification and +10% of the priviledge
U of M – um, Asian? I dunno.
Hameline – hard to clasify although according to the press racial oblivious
Concordia – isn’t that kind of like Central High but costs money. heh.
Augsburg – they have a tennis court next to hwy 94.

Please, feel free to add and expand.

4:20 dude!

By the way, anybody know who is serving up Summit Scandia? It’s supposed to be out today.

Co-worker had KQRS on and we were listening to Bob Dylan’s Rainy Day Women #12 & 35.

I’ll be at the Summit Scandia release party tonight at the brewery. Not sure how complicated it’d be to get in without a ticket, but I’m sure they’ll have it there, and probably a lot of it. I can’t imagine it’d be too hard if you were there with your camera and wanted to “promote it” on some random local vlog.

St. Olaf – nerdy but pleasant achievers who went to third-ring suburban high schools; wanted to get “away” but not too far away. Still close enough to come home on weekends so mom will do the laundry.
Preferred major: anthropology.

Carleton – politically liberal but conservatively dressed navel gazers who have the financial means to do so without having to do work-study.
Preferred major: political science.

Macalester – The urban Carlton, just not as well-dressed. Carleton students’ parents are just as left as the students themselves; Macalester students are rebelling against their parents’ conservatism.
Preferred major: self-directed liberal studies.

Hamline – Never made varsity anything in high school but had good enough grades to get in. Think the “fraternities” there are a pretty wild place to “party.”
Preferred major: econ.

Augsburg – Same as Olaf, except they migrate in to the city from small towns and drink a lot more.
Preferred major: accounting.

Concordia – Perfect attendance at Sunday school throughout their youth.
Preferred major: divinity.

St. Thomas – Football and cheerleading captains all intending to major in “business,” though if you ask them what they want to be when they graduate they won’t have any idea. Will end up inheriting dad’s car dealership.
Preferred major: I already toldja.

U of M – everyone else. And lots and lots of furriners.
Preferred major: survival.

My Alma Mater, U of M: Eligability requirement to enroll? A pulse.

I like to tell people I went to the same school as Bullwinkle. Whatsamatta U.

Andrew:

St. Olaf: Frustrated they didn’t get into Carleton. Um ya ya.

I’m afraid to see what people would come up with for Dunwoody/Century/MCTC/Brown.

I’m just afraid people will start singing the National American University theme again.

The U *does* have some requirements. It’s the state schools that barely require a pulse, especially St. Cloud. Nobody’s mentioned St. Catherine — but it’s nice to see everyone else has St. Thomas pegged.

In the words of NOFX… don’t call me white. Shit, I’m not even professional. Literally.

Oh shucks and golly, Tom. We Oles didn’t even try for Carleton. They don’t have a choir. Or Jesus.

But they DID have good pot.

Isn’t that what this thread was about?

Good god, DaveM has it nailed perfectly. He must be an insider somehow with that kind of insight. And don’t forget St. Kates. Nice catholic girls who are too shy to attend a mixed gender school. Highest virgin-to-student ratio of all the city schools.

Oh, and for Carleton, did I mention “hairy”? Nearly Chewbacca.

(BTW, Google corrected me when I typed Chewbakka. “Did you mean Chewbacca?” Well, yes I did, Mr. Google. Apparently you went to Carleton.)

Stop me now! I’m on a roll! Yeah, baby!

Chewbacca? The Jewish Festival of Lights?

If Chewie is Jewish, then …

Han Solo – Agnostic/Capitalist (man, that was easy…)
Luke – Lutheran – too close to his parents
C3PO – Catholic – Overly concerned with his state of being and rituals
R2D2 – Unitarian – Couldn’t give a rat’s ass for the spiritual. Give me a damn corkscrew and a set of coasters, and we’ll bust the f’er up!
The Princess – UCC – She’s ornery.
Darth – The Church of Rumsfeld

There. 14 years on the Internet and I just made my first Star Wars post.

F me.

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Love seeing the Twin City populace’s irrational stereotyping/dislike of the colleges and college students whose presence (in many direct and indirect ways) improves the overall quality of life in the TC region. Educated people are good to have around, economically and culturally. Alot of these graduates stick around and do all kinds of great things for the area.

But I suppose this is all in good fun so I don’t really wanna ruin everyones good times…though some of you should definitely remove the sticks lodged up your rears.

macalester class of 2007

Seriously, I hate St. Thomas. Those are always the guys with the baseball cap + polo shirt + sandals look going on.

hey Will –

St. Olaf alum here…poking fun.

and a bunch of Carls too on this board

Man do you guys have good pot.

go with it, my man. all in good jest. we love you people. you college people with your brains and brawn and unblemished psyches. we need you. without you we turn into sarcastic quasi-journalists who sit at home at night with a vodka/coffee/Bailey’s martini while our kids watch Chronicles of Narnia (didn’t I take an interim C.S. Lewis class? Chronic-WHAT-cles of Nar-nia) and post with reckless abandon to a web site that will surely prevent any of us from running for president.

Did I say that out loud?

Your comments werent the ones i was really responding to. in fact I found them rather entertaining.

However, Paul, Harry and Larry…whose comments really speak for themselves, should relax a little bit. They would be hard pressed to find any American college/university that didn’t have its fair share of kids experimenting with drugs, many of them alot more harmful to the general socioeconomic health of South American countries than Marijuana, most of which (at least the stuff being sold here) is grown either right here in Minnesota or Canada.

Augsburg/UofM here…I guess that makes me the Michael Chang of local college graduates.

The guess the good thing about Augsburg is that nobody knows anyone who went there well enough to form a stereotype.

Hah, I have a couple of friends going back to high school that went to Augsburg. One of them actually graduated, and plenty of his friends went there, too — but “tennis courts along I94″ is as good as anything else that comes to mind when I think about Augsburg.

And I’m trying to restrain myself from making a coherent snark on St. Thomas…

Some Carleton kids once stole a 1 ton rock from Mac’s campus that had “Macalester” engraved on it and mailed it back COD from Illinois. That pretty much sums up Carleton’s character.

It’s funny because my brother made a comment not too long ago that was very hilarious, but kind of true when describing certain students and the school they go to.

“You can always tell what students come from what school around here without ever really knowing, Mac students are always scruffy, hippie or hipster like and look very studious. St.Thomas boys always have the prep look with a baseball hat tapped off to the side while the all the girls look like they are dressed to go to a club everyday, even if it’s just for class.St.Kate’s girls are chicks who looked like they just rolled out of bed, don’t care about how they look and have attitude about the littlest things or try to hard to look good and instead hoochie up. Finally, U of M students, all school spirit gear all the time.”

I went to St. Thomas and I’d just like to say that the stereotypes are true. It’s no wonder I hated college and spent as much time off campus as possible. And I’m proud to say that I never attended one football game, not even against the Johnnies. Which reminds me, what are the St. John’s stereotypes?

(My parents aren’t even rich. Or Catholic. What was I even doing at St.. Thomas? Gah!)

How many people posted on this thread stoned?

ROFL.

It could have been the guys at the FDA. They were so stoned, they forgot to go to science class.

and the FDA’s spokewoman’s name is “Bro.” That’s too priceless. “Whaddup, Bro! Where’s the confiscated shit?”

And the Mac spokesperson’s name is “Stone.” My God. Did Scorcese write this script!?!

Oh lord, do I hate St. Thomas! Does any other college even come close on the contempt scale? Even that bible college downtown is less objectionable.

And I actually like the MCTC kids, who get on my bus and look like an earnest lot trying to do well for themselves.

Whoops! There goes your Medical Marijuana!

FDA Release

MCTC-Not everyone can get into Aveda

At least we’ve still got Tony Danza.

this is funny because i need to decide on a college and i just went to a college fair tonight. also, aeklund has any olaf student i know dead on. ha. major in chem, minor in music, great hash recipes and church on sundays.