everybody's a critic

[rivendellrose]

On the subject of the (extremely unpopular and, I admit, rather unattractive) Husky statue that my year's Senior Gift Committee raised money for and commissioned, I have only one thing to say:

I'd like to see everybody out there who's whining about this thing try to come up with something that the whole frigging university would like.

That's not me being glib or snarky. Honestly. Trying to make the whole committee agree on something was hard enough, let alone coming up with something for the whole school and everybody who'll ever go through it. Seriously.


One major complaint that's been put forward is that the money could have gone to a scholarship. Yup - that's true. That's what most senior gift committees do. We considered it for a very long time (yes, people - we thought about this. It wasn't just something we all came up with on a boring afternoon. We spent months on this sucker, thanks, and most of that time was spent trying to pick the gift), and we decided that we wanted something the whole university community could appreciate, not just one person per year.

Everybody who's bitching about how ugly the statue is? I've met the artist and her parents. She's a sweet girl, and she graduated with us. That was part of why we picked her - we didn't want some anonymous artist who didn't have a connection to the class. We wanted the statue to come from the Class of 2006 in every conceivable way. So y'know, honestly? The design isn't exactly what I'd had in mind when we chose this idea, but I don't care.

In short, people? Chill. You want to do better? Put together a frigging committee and do it. I don't feel like hearing about what a shit job my group did, because we did the best we could.

Comments

[jfrog78.livejournal.com]

I found the pictures on the uw lj linky and I liked it. Also I love the comments where people ask about the "cinder blocks" Those are not cinder blocks those are part of the statue. Since they can't identify cinder blocks that makes their comments invalid.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I'm reserving judgment until I get to see it in person, which'll probably wait til this weekend. But honestly? More than anything I think people just feel an insane compulsion to bitch.

If we'd paid for a scholarship, people'd be complaining that only one person benefits from it, and they'd be angry about whatever qualifications we'd put on it, because somebody would by necessity be left out. :P

[jfrog78.livejournal.com]

I always wanted to make a scholarship for people who played the accordion. The process would be a concert to pick who is best. The reason? Because its hard to learn. I have a teach yourself book which is just frustrating. So if you can learn the accordion I know my money is well spent for a scholarship.