COLUMN: Miss Jones-Dec. 2
Dear Miss Jones,
I’m the youngest of six children, and all of my siblings, along with my parents, went to BYU. With the Aggie basketball team playing BYU this week, I’m extremely conflicted. As far back as I can remember, I’ve been a BYU fan. I was 5 when my oldest brother graduated from there, and I still remember thinking how badly I wanted to go there. My favorite color is blue, and I named my first pet Cosmo. I always figured I would go there, but when my application letter came back all I saw was, “Dear Mr. Smith, The Admissions Committee for Brigham Young University regrets to inform you that placement in the entering class of 2013 cannot be offered to you.” I cried, reapplied, got rejected again and cried some more. I literally didn’t go to school for four days. I didn’t really have a backup plan but knew a few people who were coming up here to Logan so I applied and got accepted.
Don’t get me wrong, I like USU but I still feel like I’m a Cougar. Who should I cheer for in Wednesday’s game, and how do I rationalize the decision I’ve made?
Sincerely Cougar or Aggie Blue
Dear Cougar or Aggie Blue,
I don’t know how to put what I’m about to say in appropriate language for a woman of my age and dignity: You don’t deserve to be an Aggie; you make me sick; now drag your sorry self back to Provo.
There are only a few things that push my buttons more than college kids who proudly wear another school’s colors. None of which I can mention here. Normally in my column, I try to be positive and supportive because I know all the questions I receive are from the heart and the questioners mean well, but for this question I’m going to be blunt and cut straight to the chase.
In my day, there was none of this “I wanted to go to this school, but didn’t get in” crap. If we wanted to get into a certain college, we worked as hard as it took. If you truly were this die-hard BYPOO fan then you should have worked harder in high school and maybe you wouldn’t have been rejected. But, because I know so many BYU rejects at USU, I guess none of you figured out that attending college isn’t a right. It’s a privilege. You have to earn your way in.
Just because your five older siblings, mother, father, grandpa and all 12 of his wives went to BYU doesn’t give you an automatic bid. This isn’t the BCS.
This is what I think you should do for Wednesday night’s game: pack your bags, dress up in your nicest BYU fan regalia, paint your body in its “holy” blue and cheer for BYU. And after that, hop on the bus with the dejected team and head back to Provo because we only want true blue Aggie fans here.
Good luck to your team. They’re going to need it and remember: “With as many times as Miss Jones has been around the block, her directions must be good.”
E-mail your questions, to be answered next semester by Miss Jones, to statesman.miss.jones@gmail.com.