“Well, you know I’m graduating this semester. This may be the last time I see you. Thanks for everything. I’m…
Universities around the country, including my own, have been in a state of panicked indecision for the past four months,…
“Does Candidate #1659-R-18 play the tuba? There’s an urgent note here from the band director. They’re one brass instrument short…”
In a Monday morning grump, I took the University of Florida to task for the $65 million baseball yard it plans…
Early in this century a good friend, that rarity of a professor who in neither boring nor leftist, took his…
On it goes, the puzzling, never quite resolved distemper in colleges and universities. Tantrums, threats, hoaxes, hurt feelings, and demands…
Washington Looking back through the years I have seen it all coming: the militant ignorance strutting across our college campuses…
“Declare your interest” is the conventional British instruction to writers writing on subjects close to their hearts. So: I taught…
Why has it become toxic? This is the season of college Commencement speeches — an art form that has seldom…
