Some university administrators like to leave a legacy before they drop everything and head for a bigger school and higher pay. Watch out, Penn State: Your president may be on the move, because he's giving you music when all he gave Nebraska students is more grass.
Not fondly known as "Grammy Spammy" while chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Graham Spanier decided to build his legacy by replacing perfectly good parking with a grass field students couldn't use for about a year while the tender green blades took root. Connoisseurs of irony may appreciate his legacy more; after he left, a student union expansion project replaced a good quarter of "Grammy's Greenspace" with spankin'-new concrete.
Why, oh why, could he not have given us music? Spanier's inked a deal to provide Napster music service to all Penn State students, paying a discounted rate out of their student fees.
Maybe if there had been free legal music after Spanier left, we Huskers could have been spared the next chancellor's legacy: the unsingable, fingers-on-a-chalkboard "Alma Mater" co-written by the Unholy Trinity of (thankfully former) Chancellor James Moeser, inexplicably popular synthesizer king Chip Davis and historian Robert Knoll (whom I'd have no reason to dislike, if not for the Alma Mater).
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