A college club of roughly ten members spent an entire year fundraising to bring Neil de Grasse Tyson to campus for a single day. The total cost reached nearly 85,000 dollars after the 50,000-dollar speaking fee plus airfare, hotel, catering, venue and staff expenses.
Tyson reportedly spent the airport ride repeatedly mocking the humanities and soft-science majors of the organizers, attempting to demonstrate that logic itself was stupid. At dinner he criticized one student's fork-holding technique and delivered smug advice to physics students. The main lecture consisted largely of fart jokes, self-promotion for an upcoming television series and a long reading from Carl Sagan's work.
A second member recalled Tyson equating a philosophy degree with mental masturbation, stating the group now owed him a favor and pausing the private physics-club session to spend fifteen minutes perfecting a tweet. Both accounts concluded the celebrity was an asshole and not worth the effort or expense.
A college club of roughly ten members spent an entire year fundraising to bring Neil de Grasse Tyson to campus for a single day. The total cost reached nearly 85,000 dollars after the 50,000-dollar speaking fee plus airfare, hotel, catering, venue and staff expenses.
Tyson reportedly spent the airport ride repeatedly mocking the humanities and soft-science majors of the organizers, attempting to demonstrate that logic itself was stupid. At dinner he criticized one student's fork-holding technique and delivered smug advice to physics students. The main lecture consisted largely of fart jokes, self-promotion for an upcoming television series and a long reading from Carl Sagan's work.
A second member recalled Tyson equating a philosophy degree with mental masturbation, stating the group now owed him a favor and pausing the private physics-club session to spend fifteen minutes perfecting a tweet. Both accounts concluded the celebrity was an asshole and not worth the effort or expense.
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