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You can’t read Michael Hofmann’s poem, “Higher Learning,” unless you subscribe to…

The Nation. A Summer Institute of Civic Studies participant, Jim Scheibel, sent it to Mr UD. Excerpts:

…We hike the fees and we re-prioritize.
It’s what you do in a race to the bottom.
We lay on handmaidens and academic tutors and personal chefs for our MVPs –
everything ,and the great lunks still pass out at traffic lights…

… We award our sports coaches ius primae noctis (for wins only)
Plus 40,000 square foot pasteboard-and-marble mansions on prime lakeside real estate,
with green lights at the end of their private piers.
Throw in a motorboat and some stables or else we’re uncompetitive…

Margaret Soltan, July 30, 2013 4:23PM
Posted in: sport

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