I Support the Mahz and Bloo
I received a call from a solicitor trying to convince me to renew my expired membership to the Michigan Alumni Association. About a year ago, I decided not to renew my membership since I was already giving directly to the university and didn't think it was worth having an alumni association membership when only a portion of my membership dues is used to benefit the school.
The person on the phone was really talking up how great the University of Michigan is. He wasn't going to get an argument from me. I totally agree that Michigan is awesome! He asked if I read US News & World Report. When I said no, he mentioned that their latest rankings listed Michigan as the #3 public university in the country. I decided not to point out that we were the #2 public school when I was a student.
The guy on the phone then said how some of my alumni association dues would be used to fund scholarship. I neglected to ask how much since I was not going to badger someone trying to solicit funds for the awesome University of Michigan.
However, the guy finally broke me when he asked me to show my support for the mahz and blue by renewing my membership. Um, excuse me? Mahz and blue? What's mahz? If this is your job, surely someone should have trained you how to pronounce "maize". After all, it's almost as bad as referring to our colors as yellow and blue, or worse yet, blue and gold. At this point, I laughed and corrected him. Then I politely declined the request and hung up the phone. He'd hate his job soon enough if no one pointed out that mistake.
Seriously, wtf is 'mahz'?
The person on the phone was really talking up how great the University of Michigan is. He wasn't going to get an argument from me. I totally agree that Michigan is awesome! He asked if I read US News & World Report. When I said no, he mentioned that their latest rankings listed Michigan as the #3 public university in the country. I decided not to point out that we were the #2 public school when I was a student.
The guy on the phone then said how some of my alumni association dues would be used to fund scholarship. I neglected to ask how much since I was not going to badger someone trying to solicit funds for the awesome University of Michigan.
However, the guy finally broke me when he asked me to show my support for the mahz and blue by renewing my membership. Um, excuse me? Mahz and blue? What's mahz? If this is your job, surely someone should have trained you how to pronounce "maize". After all, it's almost as bad as referring to our colors as yellow and blue, or worse yet, blue and gold. At this point, I laughed and corrected him. Then I politely declined the request and hung up the phone. He'd hate his job soon enough if no one pointed out that mistake.
Seriously, wtf is 'mahz'?
posted by GaryGinew at 8:40 PM
2 Comments:
ahem, tied for second is what I always thought it was (I guess Virginia somehow gained a 0.001 on Michigan, huh).
Was the dude not an alum himself? I remember being roped into participating in the Hillel phone-a-thons for ASB money, and aren't there still poor college students who would like to earn upwards of $10/hour? Maybe the Alumni Assn should stop spending its hard-earned cash on professional phoners.
As for a membership in the AA, I dropped that after our "recent grad" fees skyrocketed (from $25 to $35, I think) since I didn't get any benefit from the membership and, as you said, Gnu, there were more direct ways to channel my money.
in the words of some dumbass beeeeyatch from OSU, I believe "mahz" is "french". for corn.
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