Getting educated at CU

Titus is right. The 4/20 pot smoke fest at CU Boulder makes for hysterical self-parody. It also gives CU students the oppotunity to showcase the many valuable skills and virtues they are acquiring in consideration of their diligence and tuition payments, such as:

Delayed gratification: "Oh forget it," one student said, aborting the countdown to 4:20 p.m. and lighting his pipe early.

Eloquence: "Sweet."

Leadership: "You guys need to go stand on those stairs,” one girl shouted to her friends, who were seated in a circle on the quadrangle grass. “You don’t even understand."

Civic-mindedness: CU freshman Emily Benson, 19, of Kansas City, said she thinks the decriminalization of marijuana will become a hot topic in the upcoming political season and said she felt part of something bigger than just a smoke-out on Sunday.

Altruism: “We’re at the starting point of a movement,” she said. “This is a big part of the reason I applied here — for the weed atmosphere.”

Humility: “I just like being generous and doing nice things,” he said. “I’m like a good Samaritan.”

Reason and rhetoric: CU senior Tyler Molvig, 24, said that rather than condemning the smoke-out, CU and the city should embrace it as a money-making opportunity. “I mean, it’s gonna happen regardless,” he said.

Enterprise: Entrepreneur Barrett Betz, 20, conceived of the potential financial benefit 4/20 holds earlier this year, and sold peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, Hostess snack cakes and bottled water for a $1.

Forget Harvard. I want my daughter to get an education at Colorado University.