Snooki's $32K Rutgers speech

Apr 01, 2011 8:03 PM by Meagan Morris

Posted in Entertainment / Celebrity Gossip

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New Jersey’s Rutgers University is getting a lot of flak for booking pint-sized Jersey Shore star Snooki for an appearance this week.

The controversy centers on her fee. Rutgers paid $32K to bring Snooki in to talk, but they're paying only $30,000 for renowned author Toni Morrison as a graduation speaker.

Snooki paid 32K to speak at Rutgers University

"Everyone wants to see Snooki!" the Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA) tweeted before the event.

"The show was promoted as a comedy act, not an academic program," a Rutgers University spokesman said in a statement. "As with any comedy show, the value of the content is subjective, and students choose to attend based on their interests."

We're a little shocked that Rutgers would spend student fees on someone who was thrown in the Seaside Heights, New Jersey, drunk tank last summer. We'd rather see the money go toward upping GPAs than learning about GTL.

Snooks isn't the only reality celeb to rake in the personal appearance cash, however:

Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian -- along with sisters Khloe and Kourtney -- command as high as $50,000 for appearances at nightclubs and other opening events, according to Investopedia.

Bristol Palin

The Dancing With the Stars finalist nets anywhere from $15,000 to $30,000 for speaking engagements at pro-life and abstinence events.

Pauly D

One of Snooki's Jersey Shore housemates, DJ Pauly D, commands a hefty paycheck -- in the neighborhood of $50K -- for spinning gigs, and it's going up all the time.

Almost makes us want to audition for a reality show. Almost.

Do you think Snooki deserves $32,000 for speaking to Rutgers students?

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Comments on "Snooki's $32K Rutgers speech"

I'm proud of you Rutgers. Way to drop the bar and give the population what they want, and not what they need. Oh and thanks for helping "trim the fat" on which grad school I will attend.

It's a sad time that we would pay to have a drunken pig speak at what was once a prominent university. A university that my family gave money to! No more! We have the power to strike back at what is wrong with society and it troubles me that Rutgers condones the behavior of this loser. Think twice before registering for this low class asylum!

This no longer surprises me. Look at the list of "celebrities" mentioned here: Snookie, The Kardashian Sisters, Bristol Palin and Pauly D. We live in a country and time where we support, reap praise, idolize, and lift up pure garbage under the guise of entertainment. I blame whoever was responsible for the final okaying of the booking of this strain of fecal matter! It is truly that idiots fault. What does it say about RU and their students as a whole? Maybe it's time for these reprehensible "celebrites" get the "Gathering of the Juggalos" treatment EVERYWHERE they go. Maybe that will make them go away...forever.

Dude, read the article and you'd figure it out. Don't comment on something before you know the whole story.

Did I read this wrong, or does it really say "The controversy? Rutgers is paid $32K to bring Snooki in to talk" Does this really mean "Rutgers is paid?" Either the editing is weak, or some cosmic radiation (or April Fools) has scrambled the message. Is Rutgers paid, or is Snooki? Heck, she's at least as morally and academically reputable as most star athletes. If she (or her reps) are PAYING $32k to speak, let her blab away! There's nothing like a good negative example....

yea even as a person who watches the show ill be pretty pissed off if they paid her that much to show up at my grad night she not even funny thats the thing pay some one that money that does comedy if your hole purpose is to make people laugh you seen how bad mike was on the trumps roast

This is as close as the Snok is ever going to get to a university. They should have given her a one free year of tuition instead. Wait! She can't count that high!

I'm glad my tuition dollars payed for that. Ridiculous, if you ask me. Rutgers praises scholars yet they get someone like her to speak about what hair styles??? I'm disappointed in RU.

April Fools??? Otherwise Rutgers, I don't even... Son I am so disappoint.

Even though I personally wouldn't waste a moment of my life watching or listening to this person and her show, this is America and she has the right to charge whatever the market will bear for her personal appearances. She doesn't have to please everyone. She only needs to please enough people to satisfy the organizers of the event. Universal approval is not needed to extract millions and billions of dollars from various segments of society.

Wow. How low of a stoop for Rutgers and society as a whole.

Wow. This is sad stuff.

That's what's wrong with our society stupid people like snookie getting paid 32000 dollars for speaking she shouldn't even be on tv and that money could have been scholarships for unfortunate students who can't but deserve to go to colledge

It's a sad commentary of our society. Placing such value on having this reprehensible person visit an establishment of higher learning is completely absurd. Perhaps it is time for us to experience some extinction level event and simply start over...

$32,000 for a no talent tramp who is an embarrassment to the Italian community!! Wonder how many homeless and hungry that would have fed!!