October 31, 2008
'Give to Us, Blah, Blah' Appeal Falls Flat
It turns out that jokes about the economic crisis and the increased financial needs of students just aren't funny when they appear in a fund-raising letter from your alma mater.
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert may make satirizing the news look easy, but Framingham State College learned a painful lesson in misguided humor when it attempted to make light of the tanking economy and credit crunch in a recent appeal for donations to 6,000 younger alumni who had not previously given to the
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