Abe fires zippy zingers at Akron

Retired BJ writing coach and political columnist Abe Zaidan, who usually aims his acidic word-howitzers at Republicans and other conservatives, turns his attention to the University of Akron, where the administrators get richer, the students get dumber and the part-timer faculty qualifies for food stamps.

Abe Zaidan

Abe, a graduate of tiny Ramsay High School in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania 64 years ago, rails at “poor student graduation rates, huge debt, falling enrollment and a growing phalanx of six-figure management operatives (including some double-dippers) on (Akron’s) campus.”

Another zinger: Akron “has erected a $62 million football stadium with the unfortunate consequence that the scenery doesn’t score touchddowns.” The Zips won one game in 2012, matching its 2011 unsuccess in InfoCision Stadium.

Abe quotes BJ columnist Bob Dyer, who described the poor graduation rate as “pathetic. Almost criminal.”

To read Grumpy Abe’s entire zippy Zoloft-promoting zymogenic zingers, click on

http://www.plunderbund.com/2013/08/21/a-bad-month-for-the-university-of-akron/