Driving down to Manhattan on Friday we made the obligatory stops in Hartford (Rein’s NY-Style Deli at Exit 65 on I-84 and the Wadsworth Atheneum art museum) and picked up the local newspaper. One of the lead local stories.. “Students Protest On Yale Campus–Object To Silence By President Levin”:
“More than 100 Yale graduate student teachers marched to the university president’s office Thursday to protest the university’s treatment of women and minorities.
“Even after the graduate students were told that President Richard Levin was not in his office, they remained in the building and speakers took the floor to air their grievances.
“The march, … was prompted, they said, by Levin’s failure to join other university leaders who have denounced remarks made by Harvard University President Lawrence Summers at a conference last month.”
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job where one’s most important responsibility was to throw rocks at someone in an unrelated organization in another state? Or a job where you got to spend all afternoon hanging out with friends complaining about the top manager of your organization not spending enough of his time complaining? Thanks to the magic of generous donors, a tuition price-fixing cartel among the Ivies, and the IRS not taxing the $billions in wealth accumulated by the Ivies, all of this is indeed possible!
Didn’t Mao Tse Tung force intellectuals to perform heavy, manual labor? Seems there may be some merit to that idea.