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Thursday, October 06, 2005
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WICKED GOOD When academic institutions spend a lot of money and make a lot of noise by way of insulting their students’ and faculties’ intelligence, they can expect public humiliation by way of wicked subversion. Adelphi University’s faculty changed the GOOD IS THE ENEMY OF GREAT signs their grotesque leader, Peter Diamandopoulos, slapped up all over campus to GREED IS THE ENEMY OF GOOD. When Pomona College professor Kerri Dunn turned out to have hate-crimed herself (she is now in prison), students there changed the slogan HATE FREE CAMPUS, which was painted on a campus wall, to HOAX FREE CAMPUS. They changed another phrase on the wall, DISCOVER THE OTHER WITHIN, to DISCOVER THE LIAR WITHIN . Now that Cornell students have made clear they understand what sort of thing The Red Arches of Openness represent, it is only a matter of time before some campus wit captures the right fatal phrase for them. For now, the university community is responding more viscerally to the arches, as a writer in today’s student paper notices when he describes seeing around campus lately not the proudly erect arches as originally installed, but “a felled set of multifariously defaced, garishly red ‘Open Doors, Open Hearts, Open Minds’ arches…” |