Lula: Tuition or Vuitton?
Karolina Lula, op-ed columnist
Issue date: 4/3/06 Section: Opinion
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What is the point of carrying a faux Louis? That sophomore in Calculus I who looks like she just walked off the cover of Vogue seems to be carrying an authentic LV bag. Maybe she had a coupon. Better yet, maybe she had financial aid.
It is just not realistic to believe that a college student in a state-subsidized university can carry a real Louis Vuitton bag.
The colorful Petite Noe retails for $1,430 while the tiny Lodge PM goes for a whopping $1,200. Suddenly, a classic LV wallet at almost $500 seems quite reasonable.
Students protest the upcoming tuition increase at a university where the tuition is already subsidized. The annual in-state tuition bill of a Rutgers student is $9,221, (which is still less than the $24,477 Seton Hall students pay, but quite a sum nevertheless).
Yet Rutgers students have the money for an authentic Louis Vuitton bag?
That is as believable as Victoria Secret model Adriana Lima actually waiting until marriage to have sex, as she told GQ. That is why she once graced the VS catalogue in a thong that spelled out Lenny Kravitz's name, her boyfriend at the time. Instead of a promise ring, he gets his name worn on his girlfriend?s buns. But I digress.
For a middle class female college student, the only way to obtain the money to purchase such a bag would be to donate her eggs. That is a very marketable idea: "College women! We need YOU to make a couple happy and spread your genes." Compensation is a Louis Vuitton product of your choice.
The purchase of a fake bag is at least understandable and easier to accept than the idea of a college student owning the real thing. But remember ladies, it is in bad form to talk about your faux handbag. The first rule of the Faux Louis Vuitton is that you do not talk about the Faux Louis Vuitton. The second rule of the Faux Louis Vuitton is that you do not talk about the Faux Louis Vuitton.
Columnist Karolina Lula is an NCAS political science and economics double major.
It is just not realistic to believe that a college student in a state-subsidized university can carry a real Louis Vuitton bag.
The colorful Petite Noe retails for $1,430 while the tiny Lodge PM goes for a whopping $1,200. Suddenly, a classic LV wallet at almost $500 seems quite reasonable.
Students protest the upcoming tuition increase at a university where the tuition is already subsidized. The annual in-state tuition bill of a Rutgers student is $9,221, (which is still less than the $24,477 Seton Hall students pay, but quite a sum nevertheless).
Yet Rutgers students have the money for an authentic Louis Vuitton bag?
That is as believable as Victoria Secret model Adriana Lima actually waiting until marriage to have sex, as she told GQ. That is why she once graced the VS catalogue in a thong that spelled out Lenny Kravitz's name, her boyfriend at the time. Instead of a promise ring, he gets his name worn on his girlfriend?s buns. But I digress.
For a middle class female college student, the only way to obtain the money to purchase such a bag would be to donate her eggs. That is a very marketable idea: "College women! We need YOU to make a couple happy and spread your genes." Compensation is a Louis Vuitton product of your choice.
The purchase of a fake bag is at least understandable and easier to accept than the idea of a college student owning the real thing. But remember ladies, it is in bad form to talk about your faux handbag. The first rule of the Faux Louis Vuitton is that you do not talk about the Faux Louis Vuitton. The second rule of the Faux Louis Vuitton is that you do not talk about the Faux Louis Vuitton.
Columnist Karolina Lula is an NCAS political science and economics double major.