I suppose it’s some sort of compensation, when the story about your young, already totally blighted university presidency jumps to the New York Times, that the quality of prose being produced about the fiasco significantly improves – even to the point of poetry. Rutgers has moved from storm to storm is lovely, lilting, memorable writing; even as the article in the Times rehearses all the stupid stuff Robert Barchi has overseen in the months since he took over at Rutgers, it sweetens things somehow with this poignant formulation…
UD thinks the poetry resides in the word moved… Think of the similar E.E. Cummings line
my father moved through dooms of love
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Perhaps, as John Updike wrote, life’s a shabby subterfuge; certainly the last few years at Rutgers and the UMDNJ have been shabby in the extreme. Under its latest leader, a man who does not even understand the concept of conflict of interest, Rutgers straggles on. And the rain it raineth every day.
July 16th, 2013 at 5:43AM
Obligatory conflict-of-interest link:
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-12-05/news/1993339126_1_conflict-lawmakers-maloney
July 16th, 2013 at 6:25AM
MattF: Love it: “How does this conflict with my interest?” I lived in Chicago for years, and I can’t believe this statement didn’t originate there.