Snooki Paid More Than Toni Morrison to Appear at Rutgers

By Jen Doll Fri., Apr. 1 2011 at 9:48 AM

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Not a joke: New York Times bestselling author Snooki will be paid $32,000 by the Rutgers University Programming Association for appearing at two "student-produced comedy Q&A sessions" yesterday. This has generated great controversy, as that's $2,000 more than the amount Toni Morrison, who, you know, won a Pulitzer, will be paid to deliver the school's commencement address in May. Shocking!

And yet, is it? After all, Snooki gets $30,000 an episode to be on the Jersey Shore, a show on which Toni Morrison has never even been asked to appear! We choose our celebrities, you know -- they don't choose us. All we can do is live to regret it.

Then again, with advice like, "Study hard, but party harder" (that's Snooki, not Morrison), what is there to regret?

Snooki of 'Jersey Shore' versus Toni Morrison: Tale of the Tape [NJ.com]
Snooki of 'Jersey Shore' gets $2K more than author Toni Morrison to appear at Rutgers [NJ.com]

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