Editing 2968: University Age

{{comic
| number    = 2968
| date      = August 5, 2024
| title     = University Age
| image     = university_age_2x.png
| imagesize = 317x388px
| noexpand  = true
| titletext = This only makes it more urgent that we adopt my roadmap for the next 10 years, which should put us solidly in the lead.
}}

==Explanation==
[[Cueball]] has been the leader of a university for the last five years. In a speech, he declares that his goal during those five years has been to make his university overtake the age of the oldest university of his state, which was then two years older than his own (215 years vs 213 years old). He declares that he has funded an intensive program to make his university five years older, making it three years older than the other university was when he took the role. Due to the laws of time, this would have happened anyway, whatever he had done, or if he'd done nothing at all (barring his leadership being so catastrophic that the university ceased operating).

The final line of Cueball's speech, "Unfortunately, I have terrible news," presumably precedes the announcement that the rival university has also aged 5 years and is therefore just as far ahead as they were before (as it will always be, unless Cueball manages to have the rival university shut down).

In the title text, the "roadmap for the next 10 years" implies more of the same ineffective efforts, or perhaps strategies to undermine the rival.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball is standing behind a lectern on a stage. He has raised a finger in the air while addressing an unseen audience.]
:Cueball: When I took the helm five years ago, our university was 213 years old – the second oldest in the state, just behind our 215 year old rival.
:Cueball: Under my leadership, we've funded an intensive program to increase our age to 218, overtaking our rival by 3.
:Cueball: Unfortunately, I have terrible news.

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