VTF?

If you're anything like me, you keep a running list of schools you will not pay for your daughters to go to and institutions that are just completely off limits from any consideration. My list used to look like this.

1. Spelman

That was a simple enough list to maintain. I moved to Detroit in 2001 and had to adjust that list slightly. The revised list looked pretty much like this:

1. Spelman
2. Detroit Public Schools

Now that I live in Ann Arbor, not only did I have to tweak that list yet again but I also needed to add explanations for each item. That wound up looking like this when it was all said and done.

1. Spelman- As if.
2. Detroit Public Schools- Detroit schools frequently serve as polls on election day. I used to vote at Murray-Wright High, which the students lovingly referred to as Murder-Whites. One day as I was walking into the school to vote on amongst other issues Prop E, which was asking voters whether or not to allow then-Mayor Kwame Killpatrick to take over control of the city's public school system. This was like asking me if I wanted a give millions of tax dollars to a crackhead to do something about all those unsightly crackhouses in the neighborhood. As I was entering the building I saw that the doors and windows were covered with flyers. Not political flyers mind you, because that's illegal. No, these flyers were inviting the students to participate in a "Shake What Yo Mama Gave Ya" contest after school. There was a prize involved, but I've blocked the rest of that memory out. I do recall voting no for what it's worth.
3. The Ohio State University- I actually don't have anything against the school, but the more I live in Michigan the less I like Ohio. The turnpike is nice. The State Troopers are dicks. But the real issue is that I just don't like the people. They have no lives and nothing to live for outside of OSU football and LeBron. As much as people love to diss Detroit, can you honestly tell me you'd rather go anywhere in Ohio? Cleveland? Cincinnati? Dayton? Columbus? At least in the D you get better clubs, bars and women who are ready to get down without a bunch of jibber-jabber.
4. Harvard University- I can't afford that shit.

That was the list until today, when I made the following changes.

1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
   
2. Spelman
3. Ohio State University
4. Detroit Public Schools
5. Harvard

If you have to ask why Virginia Tech made the list at #1, then you clearly haven't seen the reports coming out of Blacksburg about the latest tragedy to hit campus. This is crazy for a few reasons. The biggest one is that 20 months after 32 students were killed in a crazed shooting spree another student is killed in a way that ups the ante on crazy on-campus murders. Now I am in no way making light of the fact that a young woman lost her life, but seriously? Getting stabbed to death is bad enough, but to then be decapitated all while sitting in Au Bon Pain in plain sight of witnesses? Over coffee and without any apparent provocation?

At this rate, Blacksburg might as well be Camp Crystal Lake. How could any parent feel good about sending their kid there given the recent history? First the Vick Brothers and now not one but two homicidal maniacs were enrolled at this school? Who's the Dean of Admissions, O.J.? It's as mind boggling as it is sad. It's the sort of thing that make you just shake your head and say WTF?

Sadder still is that this student and her family back in China probably won't get the same degree of public sympathy as the shooting victims because it was just her and we're a long way from football season. So effective immediately, in memory of Xin Yang and in honor of the shitty campus security at VT, the phrase WTF? here at 0K+3$ will officially be changed to VTF? until further notice. And as for Gumball and Lunchbox, well they'lll just have to be satisfied with UVA.

Just Kidding. That school's on the list too.