Conn. Budget Deal Includes Plan to Consolidate Governing Boards

April 26, 2011, 11:49 am

After months of legislative wrangling, Connecticut lawmakers have struck a deal to create a single governing board for the four Connecticut State University institutions, Charter Oak State College, and the state’s 12 community colleges. The Associated Press reports that the measure, proposed by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, will save about $4-million a year.

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akafka

I can already picture the movie adaptation, Gina. Or maybe a miniseries on HBO? :-)
rhiannon17

This is definitely an homage to Fay Weldon and her own unique genre… I’m sure she’ll be honored! : )
pkballhaus

I know that high literature favors threesomes (3: the holy trinity, etc) but if Malcolm Lowry brought in a fourth in UNDER THE VOLCANO, I think you can take the risk too. This story is missing a JEW FROM NEW YORK. Why does the Italian get to have all the fun? Since you’ve used X,Y and Z–I would suggest avoiding “J” for this new addition–it might be taken wrong. How about W? Daughter of Communist leaning schoolteachers, raised on the upper, upper west side (in a rent controlled apartment which is the only way teachers can now afford to live on the now posh UWS)her family views their daughter’s Harvard scholarship with public shame, but private glee. Maybe she’ll earn enough money to underwrite their political activities! But maybe, just maybe, she’ll go over to the ‘other’ side? How does her relationship with waspy wealth affect her? Did she ever realize how similar Italians and Jews could be? Will she become (gasp) a corporate lawyer and severe all family ties–or become an underpaid left-wing journalist for newspapers and journals who love, more than anything else, the fact that she went to Harvard?
Her upbringing in the bowels of political Manhattan quarters was so provincial and protected, it’s possible she was never allowed to see “LOVE STORY” and at first will not even understand the joking references to “Ali McGraw.”
We’ll talk about casting later….
bookgirl

Adventure #2 starts out with a dark mystery man from the past that connects all of the women. By dark I mean a creepy Stephen King character…
elementalblue

There should be an object, given supernatural or sentimental powers, obtained by struggle or passed down to someone who feels she doesn’t deserve it… maybe the inherited summer house itself, with its worn cornices and garden niches? Even better, it would be something that could be held, imbued with the Every-Girl emotions of any collection of letter-characters.
goxewu

I’m going to be the grinch here. In order to satirize something (the object here seems to be a novel that’s a combination “The Group” and “The Harrad Experiment” that’s been made into a Lifetime TV movie) you have to, well, satirize it by witty example, e.g., 500 words from the parody novel itself, not just the ingredients of a pitch letter. (A parody of a pitch letter itself might be funny, but not merely a laundry list for one.)

What comes through most here is Prof. Barreca’s conflict: She’d like to write a bestseller like this, get the fame and the bucks, but doesn’t want to risk the time, effort, and the possibility of being thought of as “an author without shame” if the thing’s going to tank. So she pretends to be above this sort of thing by making fun of it, a not uncommon manifestation of academic envy-cum-insecurity.
mr_molesworth

Dr. Q
X was the first to encounter what the three came to call “folderols” when she returned to college after the first semester of her freshman year only to find that the lock on her room had been changed. When she complained the locksmith showed her a form with her signature authorizing the change. Shortly after her marriage, Y’s husband receives a bouquet of roses with a note reading: “I hope you can satisfy her as much as I did the day before your wedding.” Z finds her prized goldfish dead, from poison it turns out, when she returns to her house that shows no signs of a forced entry.
The unnamed culprit is a WASP from the wrong side of the tracks in a New Hampshire mill town who applied to Harvard in 198X and was accepted but could not attend since he, unlike X Y & Z, did not receive a scholarship. He feels that these three women deprived him of the academic opportunity he so richly deserved. Dr. Q, as he calls himself, continues to haunt the three culprits gradually escalating the frequency and the intensity of the “folderols.” When X, Y, and Z obtain their Facebook accounts, Dr. Q manages to be friends, using a different name and Facebook account for each of them, with all of them. Using the information about their personal lives that the three foolishly post on their accounts, allows Dr. Q to plot and successfully carry out the murder of X leaving numerous clues that point to Zack as the culprit.
Detective Lincoln, who is assigned to the case, works closely with his old friend Dr.Abraham, the medical examiner, best known for using his bloodhound to follow scent trails but, alas, there are no such clues to be found.
lddluxe

Bestseller !! Just ask Atwood. All you need is for X to seduce Z’s husband. It’s their torrid affair that drives him into the arms of Brad Pitt. Then if you can manage it, X can also lock Y in a hole or throw her off of a bridge, until she cries :)
copesan

Thank you Gina! this got my day off to a great start. Think the years between the apartment and the marriages are rife with possibility.
dpn33

Wait, you forgot the ethnic minority sidekick. You know, the bright and skeptical African American from Chicago, or the daughter of undocumented immigrants from Texas, or the international student from Japan. You missing a whole range of possibilities here, including geographic diversity. Not everyone at Harvard is from the east coast. Or white.
pittsburghtec

I think it has great satirical possibilities. I also think that it needs the “dark character” to come in just when everything seems to be resolved. Only, instead of something supernatural, it needs to be “the man” who introduced each of them – unbeknownst to each other – to the mysteries of love and life. He should be the one that each kept from the other as a delicious little secret throughout their college years. Then, horror of horrors, just when life turns out to be rosy, the delicious little secret becomes besmirched when they find out that they unwittingly shared what they thought was personal and intimate. So, the glorious memory of youth becomes tainted. Will their friendship survive? Stay tuned.
corelliansmuggler

At first, I wanted to be Z, but now I’m all about X. Ultimately, I decided that a cute carpenter with a boat and nice dog doesn’t outweigh three sections of composition a semester. And I’m telling myself that the children’s book I’ll write will have clever between-the-lines innuendo that kids will miss and adults will find hysterical. Jon Stewart will invite me on The Daily Show to discuss such matters. Perhaps my self-esteem is on the rise after all.
milesmann

Make half of these women vampires and the other half werewolves and you’ve got a bestseller and a three picture deal. Call it Guylight.
literarytype

GUYLIGHT is funny.
klb33

A best seller. Cue the Faith Hill song now (for the film adaptation of course). I’m rooting for Z.
greeneyeshade

From one who has been part of a higher ed merger:

On second thought, words fail. I can’t describe it.

All the best.
get_real

Concept is good and it should save $, helping CT balance its books. However, management throughout CT higher education is in over its heads,oblivious to best practices, and unwilling to raise the bar on its own performance.