Thursday, June 25, 2009

Because carving your initials into a mountain isn't ever enough

There was a huge uproar a couple of years ago when not-a-Dr. Jerry Falwell carved a big ugly LU into his mountain.


That LU got the best of Jerry. He died of cardiac arrest the day after hiking his fat ass up to the observation gazebo atop the LU (that little white speck above the L).

Just look at what the Falwells are up to now.


It's a ski slope.

I caught myself grumbling about LU's ski slope the other day. "They must be so desperate for students!" I thought, quite smugly.


Then I remembered that my alma mater had a ski slope too.

3 comments:

Jen said...

I am sure the saw the clear cuts on the hills around here when you visited. Just as ugly....but somehow what the Falwells are doing seems worse.

KathSW said...

I just have no idea what to say about this.... seems like LU is toying with the old Jim and Tammy theme park/adventure land sort of thing.... implies that God isn't enough, right??

Look at it this way, if it's successful, maybe the whole community of East Jesus will benefit economically..... and maybe you can add skiing to your workout regimen. ;)

Trop said...

There was a time when I skied. I don't have the knees for it now.

I guess this is the kind of outlet a school needs when its students may not cuss, drink, or have sex.