Category Archives: education
Graduation: Hyles Style
A couple of things struck me about this video. One was that the “special music” style they’re using here is the same one that HAC used to bash PCC for about a decade ago.
The second was the thought that we’ll no doubt see some of the faces of these graduates again in a few years when they pose for their first mugshots. Lord, have mercy.
PR Blunders
As found on page 51 of the BJU 2012-2013 Student Handbook:
Darrell’s Rule of University Media Relations: If you have to threaten to punish your students to keep them from speaking ill about you to the press, you’ve already lost the PR battle.
Unintentional Self-Parodies
Keys to starting a successful Bible Institute:
1) Choose a name that symbolizes pain, grief, and exhaustion.
2) Make sure everybody in your advertising has at least one honorary doctorate.
3) When you hire a professor of Homiletics make sure he’s a a guy who does stuff like this and this and all of this.
4) Make sure the picture of your college President makes him look more than a little disturbed. That way the crazies who sign up will know they’re among friends.
When I see things like this it makes me wonder if there’s really any point writing parody of fundamentalists. It seems they’ve taken up the task of self-mockery with a vigor that I’m unlikely to be able to rival.
Post-Graduation Reality
