Monday, September 26, 2016

Editorial: GW Must Atone for Its Contribution to Alec Baldwin


The GW administration has stood idly by for too long. They simply must address the elephant in the room; the university willed the host of ABC’s Match Game into being, and as a community, we must atone for our sins.

We must daily coax ourselves into forgetting that within these hallowed halls in which we study once sat the narrator of the Royal Tenenbaums, the man who once told a deposition in Malice that he did not have a God complex but was, indeed, God, despite that very statement indicating “yes, you do have a God complex.”

The university and its administrators must comment on this ballooning issue, as we will lose just a little bit more of our accreditation if the star of two separate films about Howard Hughes (The Aviator and Rules Don’t Apply) continues to diminish our academic character.

Who knows if it was actually the fault of one of our many lacking arts programs that led Tom Cruise’s boss in the latest Mission: Impossible film to first foray into an acting career? George Washington University would never be able to live this down if it were so.

Will Kogan Plaza ever have its usual laughing schoolchildren and students at play knowing that it was probably routinely visited by the man who recently played the scumbag husband to two consecutive Best Actress Academy Award Winners (in Blue Jasmine and Still Alice)? I shiver at the thought.

He also did that MSNBC show which we were big fans of, no problems there whatsoever. We especially like the way he treated paparazzos on the street during that time.