An Ode to Maggie O'Brien

Miss u sometimes Maggie O.  Miss ur chill ~nonexistant~ vibes.  Kinda miss those days when seeing the President was a rare event that few got to experience.  Now any bro can chill with the Prez at his open hours, or do something dumb like invite Leslie and he over for dinner in their townhouse.

Missu wine producing prez.  Miss ur wine that apparently was not very good and given out to underage students on the reg.  Most of all, miss u RPG (EDIT: Apparently "it's a large flashlight with a scope made from spare plumbing equipment you dolt" [SUPER-EDIT: It's definitely something military related]) holding prez (see below).

Where is the wine and guns Urgo???  Can we really trust a President that doesn't have wine and guns???  Isn't the liberal arts education/Faulkner all about wine and guns???

Wonder what she is up to now?  I think she is chillin over in Oxford via heading the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.  I remember this annoyed some facultybros, not sure what the current situation is though.

Apparently everyone was into her for the first half of her being here (via honeymoon syndrome).  Also she really changed the ~vibes~ of the school into being more srs and academic (apparently) which is cool I guess.  Also she was a really good fundraiser, which is probs why she was never around.

I think ultimately, (13) thirteen years is too long for any prez to be around.  Maybe there should be a limit of like a decade or so.  People get burnt out, stop caring as much, etc.  But I dunno.

missu bb.

President Margaret O'Brien Stepping Down

You are hopefully aware at this point that yesterday Maggie announced she would be stepping down from her position of Presidency at SMCM, in favor of working in jolly ol' England doing some exciting sounding work.

I'm not really sure how I feel about this because I only saw Maggie two or three times, and never during the school year. I don't think she was around very often, but it's pretty clear that she did a lot for the school. SMCM's atmosphere has really changed from the Playboy Top Rated Party school of the 80s and early 90s, to a more academically rigorous institution when she ascended the throne in 1996. I don't know if this is completely good or bad, but I'm certain that she did a lot, especially in the area of studying abroad. I think studying abroad gave her a huge boner.

She had a very nice voice and referring to the President as "Maggie" was always fun. So I think I will miss her.