Alumni Association President a Wildcat?

[shoxlax]

http://www.kansas.com/news/local/education/article4292005.html

Always thought the Alumni Assc President was a graduate of that institution. Guess Im naive. Resume sounds impressive. Hope she makes an updated website a priority

[Kung Wu]

Whoa. I'm naive too.

[SHOCKvalue]

Seems like being an alumnus of the school would be a foregone conclusion for holding the position of that school's alumni association. This needs to be rectified.

WSU wants to move away from the commuter school rep, but seems tone deaf in certain respects on obvious issues. For example, WSU is the only school that comes to mind that gives zero consideration to graduate status when quantifying season ticket seating priority. I bet it would hard to find another school with a heavily fan-supported athletic department who gives no care in their "SASO" system (or whatever the equivalent is called) to alumni versus non-alumni.

[1979Shocker]

Seems like being an alumnus of the school would be a foregone conclusion for holding the position of that school's alumni association. This needs to be rectified.

That would be like saying that a person would have had to work at that company before they could become CEO of that company.

As long as they're doing their job.

[SHOCKvalue]

That would be like saying that a person would have had to work at that company before they could become CEO of that company.

As long as they're doing their job.

^Example of tone-deafness, and kind of a ridiculous analogy.

[Shocker-maniac]

I don't know about it being required to be a WSU alum, because there is something to be gained by getting someone that has experience and success in similar positions at other schools. OTOH, it just doesn't seem right to have a KSU alum in the position.

[ripemupshocks]

WTH






REQUIREMENTS FOR THE NEW (OUTSIDER) WSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT:

1. SHE MUST IMMEDIATELY BURN ANY AND ALL PURPLE COLORED PERSONAL POSSESSIONS!

2. SHE MUST IMMEDIATELY, COVERING HER BELLY BUTTON, GET A WUSHOCK TATTOO WITH THE WORD "LOVE" ABOVE WUSHOCK, AND THE WORD "FOREVER" BELOW WUSHOCK!

3. SHE MUST IMMEDIATELY RENOUNCE ALL THINGS MILDCAT AND CUT TIES TO ALL THINGS MILDCAT AND NEVER EVER MENTION THEM AGAIN, EXCEPT FOR THE PURPOSE OF TELLING JOKES ABOUT THEM!

4. LAST BUT NOT LEAST; SHE MUST IMMEDIATELY PURCHASE BILLBOARD SPACE IN WICHITA, MANHATTEN AND LAWRENCE, DEPICTING HERSELF STANDING ON THE NECK OF A CRIMSON AND BLUE RUBBER CHICKEN WHILE BEATING WILLIE THE WILDCAT OVER THE HEAD WITH A BLACK AND YELLOW BASEBALL BAT, AND PROCLAIMING "THE WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY" TO BE THE GREATEST UNIVERSITY OF ALL TIME AND SPACE!

THEN, SHE MAY BE ALLOWED TO STAY. :highly_amused:

[DUShock]

Speechless.

[1979Shocker]

^Example of tone-deafness, and kind of a ridiculous analogy.

I don't know. It's a good thing Coach Marshall didn't have to be a student at WSU in order to be the coach here.

[im4wsu]

To be a member of the Alumni Association does not require that one be a graduate of WSU or any wschool, nor does it require ever having been enrolled in any class at WSU. It does not really require even having ever set foot on the campus. So why should the president be required to be an alum?

[ShockerDropOut]

To be a member of the Alumni Association does not require that one be a graduate of WSU or any wschool, nor does it require ever having been enrolled in any class at WSU. It does not really require even having ever set foot on the campus. So why should the president be required to be an alum?

You mean even I could be a member of the "ALUMNI" Association? That just doesn't make sense to my feeble mind.

[ShauXTyme]

Hey, as long as you've got the cash, they'll let you into anything.

[WSUwatcher]

That would be like saying that a person would have had to work at that company before they could become CEO of that company.

As long as they're doing their job.

Come on now, 1979. It's an ALUMNI association, not a booster club. I don't understand how you can even join the alumni association unless you went to WSU (although I've heard ads indicating that's possible, too), much less run it. I've donated thousands of dollars over the years to SASO and the old Baseball Battery club, so I'm certainly a supporter -- but I never attended WSU, so it would never occur to me even to consider joining the alumni association.

Why don't they just change the name?

[WstateU]

Maybe she'll take a page from the playbook of former 'Tiger' Debbie Kennedy. :)

"Kennedy earned her bachelor's degree in nursing from Fort Hays State in 1984."

http://webs.wichita.edu/dt/insidewsu/show/article.asp?460

[BenWSU]

Don't think it matters that much since most university presidents never attended or graduated from the university they preside over.