9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for December 11, 2006

Transcript:

"You what?" "I want to return to teaching...not full-time, but I want to come back." "When you stormed out of here, you said the trustees are slavering satyrs, the chancellor is a money-grubbing hologram, and that the students' only potential contribution to society is as offal and sausage casing." "You reviled the very ground upon which the university rests, suggesting that a well-aimed meteor, and enough salt to sow in its crater, would be just the ticket." "You memorized what I said?" "We intone it at the beginning of faculty meetings."