Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 14, 2012

Heads up, Luann…Daddy can act, too. Maybe he attended William Shattner’s “Ham Academy.”

Luann clearly knows NOTHING about Times Square.

Hey, we now know where Luann’s drama queen-ness came from!

I am sorry if your situation is harsh, and I certainly did not mean to imply that you would let babies cry, just that it seemed the same kind of philosophy that, I regret to say, I once had some direct acquaintance with.What situation? If you’re referring to my boys, I am sure I am like most parents – tell them in no way in he** they could go to Juilliard unless they rob a bank or get a scholarship or a grant. That was what Nancy told Luann – “let’s look into other possibilities” and that Juilliard is not what they can afford.Ohhhh YOU were harshly told your dream was not possible and were made to cry? My boys did not cry – they knew we are not in the tax bracket where we could afford to send them to more prestigious colleges. I guess our small house in a middle class neighborhood is a dead giveaway.

Heheh, funny.

White shirt, black tie, black slacks….wonder where Frank works? Very 1950’s corporate America.

Looks like Frank is reliving his community theatre days! Luann has so much to learn, on so many topics and so many levels, it’s hard to know where to begin.

Smartest thing to do: go to a community college, take a few classes until you are sure what you want to do, take the rest of your classes in a community college with the plan to transfer to another college (most community colleges have MAP programs that get you immediate acceptance into a college if you complete the list of transferable classes) and save, what, $250 a credit? High priced education is like designer jeans: they look nice at first glance, but deep down they will last as long as an ordinary pair I could buy at Walmart for $20 (TEN BUCKS if there is a sale). :P

Ha, maybe Dad should go to Julliard.

There are closet-sized rooms near Lincoln Center that I think are marketed to students, but I wouldn’t call them adorable.

These days one is told to aim high when applying to college because we are told that the rich private universities will pick up the check for worthy applicants if they get accepted and can’t pay.

that’s right!without a prestigious diploma, you will not be taken seriously by the people who comment on comic strips!

She doesn’t have to make a decision right this minute. There is nothing wrong with wandering off into fantasy.

Luann Honey, HELP-YOURSELF!

Talk to Ms. Phelps and apply for money that Alumni and others, make available to graduates.You know, the Money that MOST Students DON’T Find about until Graduation Day, when They Learn that the Other Student GOT it.

Surely there has Just GOTTA be some Flute-O-Phone Scholarship Money FLOATING around….,

Good luck getting into Juilliard. The price of tuition aside, you have to audition to get in, and they only accept 20 freshmen each time. That’s out of the thousands of applicants.

It’s an awful lot of time and money and possible heartbreak for what seems like the whim of a teenage girl…

Community colleges must be different than the ones we have in Canada, which deliver technical and vocational training. All courses are related to your field of study – no general interest or humanities courses here.

@LeviticusExcuse me, but James Thadeus Kirk will never receive an Academy Award or an Oscar.

It’s James Tiberius Kirk.

Yes, Shatner is and has always been a ham, but it worked for Denny Crane.

“Go into the arts.I’m not kidding.The arts are not a way to make a living.They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”by Kurt Vonnegut

“We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and ‘success,’ defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.”Chris Hedges (Pulitzer Prize winning journalist & author)

The Vonnegut and Hedges quotes appeared on Facebook today.

The residential college experience is something apart from any classroom education, and community colleges can’t replicate it. EVERY top college will see to it that, if you can get in, you can afford to go. It may be with loans you’ll have to pay back later, so you’d better be sure that what you’re doing will make you a living, which isn’t easy in this economy… but if you have the talent and the dedication, then you have the money, because that talent and dedication are both what’s going to get you admitted to the school and what’s going to, later, get you the job to pay back your loans. Your parents will be expected to pay what they reasonably can but no more, whatever their economic situation may be.

Leviticus, you have been commenting on this strip since the last century, but where did you come up with this “dear friend” cr*p?

BikeNBoatN, we’ve never seen where Frank works, and probably never will. I’ve always guessed he’s independently wealthy, in a Jane Austin’s Mr. Bennet sort of way, grumbling about forking over the money and hiding in his study, because he’s home in every strip he appears in.

And yeah, no worry about Luann getting into any college, or move out, or do anything because she is never, eve, ever going to graduate high school. My kids are reading the same gags I did when I was their ages, and my grandkids will doubtless see vapid Luann and brainy Delta and noble Bernice still kicking how-dare-that-airhead-try-to-succeed Tiffany around.

At first I thought Frank threw his back out! Now I see it’s just his wallet. Chiropractors will tell you that an oversized wallet is one of the primary causes of back problems. Looks like Frank won’t have that problem. :-)

Even if Luann’s family could afford tuition at Julliard, there’s more to it than that. Their admissions criteria is pretty stringent. Mere pedestrian, America’s Got Talent-type capability doesn’t cut it with them.

She might find an adorable loft in DUMBO, but I doubt it — and Daddy still couldn’t afford it.

Sure kid have at it, you just have to pay for it yourself. Oh, hello reality.

“If I were in Human Resources and interviewing applicants for the next opening, and there were two people applying, one from the Ivy League and the other from State U, State U is at a disadvantage from the start”

The reason Ivy League colleges have their reputation is not because the education is so much better, but because they are highly selective. Hiring managers look at applicant’s diploma in tiers. The top tier is the ‘name brand’ university that has a high reputation. The middle tier consists of all of the other standard colleges (both public and private), and the bottom tier consists of community colleges and training programs (DeVry, anyone?). In some fields, there are some state universities and technical schools in that top tier.

Taking courses at the bottom tier does not impact the name on the diploma, so it is a perfectly good way to reduce costs. The quality of education is often superior at local colleges. Many ‘elite’ colleges have their courses taught by graduate students, because the professors are too busy with research to actually teach an undergraduate course. Technical schools are even better, because their teachers typically have real-world experience.

I can tell you that Kevin Spacey dropped after his second year – he had a lot of conflicts with the instructors, he felt they hated him because he knew more than they did. He realized later that the teachers who rode him the hardest were the ones who believed in his talent the most. And the ones who though he was lazy and demanded more of him were right, that he hadn’t given it 100%. .He thought he could do better on his own but ended up as an office assistant with the New York Shakespeare Festival. Joseph Papp saw him in an off-off-off B’way production and told him to get out of the office and go back to acting. Jack Lemmon later became a mentor, but if he hadn’t been lucky enough in these aspect, someone else could’ve been playing Kayser Soze.

Name three. Of course, if your PhD is in cultural anthropology, you better be working at WalMart. .Kidding aside, if you’re going to get your doctorate in an esoteric or overemployed area and are unaware that you’ve literally trained yourself to be useless, and haven’t acquired any other marketable skills so that you can at last get a job in a peripheral field, that’s another issue.

If you want the most brutal example, at a professional conference decades ago an interviewer was overheard telling his assistant to “pull out the resumes from Harvard, Yale and Princeton and throw the rest away.”

We don’t list credentials here—including Mensa membership (!)—because we think that rational considerations should prevail. Sort of like blind auditions at musical performing groups.

I suppose now’s the time when I point out that the CIA doesn’t have a domestic charter and that even if it did, Frank’s attire would actually call attention to itself and be a liability. Since Greg himself hasn’t held an actual “office” job in decades, no wonder he’s channeling the Kennedy years!.If Frank weren’t so clueless about computers….

Actually, TJ is Frank’s controller.

At this point it is clear Luann is playing with the concept rather than having her entire future depending on going to Julliard and living in Times Square. Let us not forget that earlier she acted like she had just learned of the existence of the place..Play is good, obsession is bad — unless it is with perfedting the Dyson vacuum cleaner.

" Letts sea won to them harvared dudes top that!!".And the win goes to Leviticus

Since I’ve never been handed an LDS pamphlet at Best Buy, I’d say the former. Geek chic, baby.

“I was never into Star Trek”.I loved Star Trek. Loved it again when I finally saw it in color. Kirk was crazy but fun. He always put himself in harm’s way and left the safety of the ship in the hands of others. Poor leader..Uhuru had very nice legs..Chekov was funny about always wanting Russia to be recognized for its accomplishments..Scotty was wonderful with his love of his machinery above all else..Bones kept talking about just being an old country doctor while using medical equipment unheard of at the time and still not QUITE there today..The PRIME DIRECTIVE was cited and broken in nearly every opisode..The show also assumed a future for humanity which was in grave doubt in the sixties with enough nuclear weapons to sterilize the surface of the planet a few times over. It had the idea of adventure, peaceful exploration, hope.-Good stuff, especially for its time.

" “Let me introduce you to Ms. X. Ms X has just joined us out of Harvard.”Or they could say, “Let me introduce to Mr. Y. My Y has just joined us from State U.”Which one empresses the most?".And the imaginary response comes to mind:“You came HERE from Harvard?? Man, what did you do WRONG??”.Versus:“You came HERE from STATE U?? Man, you must be GOOD??”.It all depends on the situation.

If she gets a pell grant, she can get the cost down to $38,500 per year. My GOSH that would be cheap. Then she could do street theatre for a year, a small piece in a musical in Iowa City, then settle down have kids, and wonder how she’s going to pay off $154,000 school loan.

“Are you a Destroyer fan?- – - After Shapir died and Murphy left the writing of the book to others, it went down hill fast.”.Yep, and yep. I enjoyed a foreword by Chiun explaining the errors in the previous book (including Remo eating a hamburger) were caused by and incompetent scribe who had since been dispatched..An interesting character was Doctor Smith who we were told lacked any imagination for the first fifty books or so when it was obvious that what he had set up was imaginative. It was all mild science fiction and I enjoy Science Fiction. Got my latest Analog and Asimov’s just now..One of my favorites involved the Doomsday Device, Cassandra in which Chiun added the Roman Numeral II to the name, implying there was at least one other in the world and might be many more when in fact it was the only one..The writers were worried too many thought such an organization was a good idea when they personally didn’t.

For sale: What looks like used Daisy Dukes, only shorter and more used. For ONLY $275.00..(yup, I didn’t believe it either. Just google: WOMENS JOEY C/O SUPER T SHORT – EQL)..Yikes, people actually spend money on this tripe?

Ho, you wish – emperors who get rid of empresses usually find it gives their subjects ideas that their imperial status is also impermanent, and therefore can be challenged and overthrown. .I bet they were both are deposed. And during most depressions or recessions, the wife is usually the one who can find employment, while her husband can’t.

Oh, that’s who those guys are. I see them all the time.

Isles is hotter than Rizzoli".Than Jane Clementine Rizzoli? How is that possible?.Tthere’s enough heat to go around, not that it matters to me much anymore. I’m getting to the point where I think, “Such cute little girls.” (Okay, not quite there yet, but getting there.) .Oh if only I could have ignored the distractions back in school…..

Lots of sturm und drang above. Our daughter tried out for Curtis but didn’t make it. Went to Univ. of Miami campus to audition for Peabody – was accepted, but we couldn’t afford it. She didn’t storm and rage – she knew we couldn‘t afford it. She went ahead and applied for Univ. of Miami, but we couldn’t afford that either – it was a private school. So she was resigned to going to Florida State University (my alma mater), which was a state college with a good music program. (Her English teacher was aghast that we wouldn’t go into debt to send her to Peabody – I told her if he wanted to pay for it, fine with us.) We visited FSU one weekend. An hour after we returned home, we got a call from U of M that she was offered a full scholarship (with State support because of good SAT’s) for her horn playing. Callooh, callay, we chortled in our joy. But she WAS prepared to attend FSU without whining.

“So what if she’s never in the New York Philharmonic, she will have the experiance of a lifetime regardless.”Thanks, . . (May I call you “.”?) She’s not in a Philharmonic, but plays in a community band and puts Midis online so that other horn players will have accompaniment.

“So what if she’s never in the New York Philharmonic, she will have the experiance of a lifetime regardless.”Thanks, . . (May I call you “.”?) She’s not in a Philharmonic, but plays in a community band and puts Midis online so that she and other horn players worldwide can have accompaniment when they practice. Also helps with arrangements for the band.