From an End-of-Academic-Year Roundup
at Georgetown University's Newspaper
'Cheers to closing the political graveyard
Retirees these days break the mold of the cloistered, old senior citizen. For a time, Georgetown made retirement options a little too convenient for some of the worlds not-too-best-and-brightest.
Students agree that former President of Spain Jose Maria Aznar and former Sen. Tom Daschle (D- S.D.) contribute nothing of academic importance, and that the acquisition of Douglas Feith was an embarrassment to the administration.
The weighty salaries and security details attached to these high-profile names are only some of a long list of negative consequences that resulted from the DeGioia administration’s efforts to make Georgetown seem more prestigious. Today, just as 200 years ago, our university is judged by the quality of the academic contributions that leave its gates, not the political swine that come in. So cheers to Georgetown for correcting its ways. It’s been nearly a year since the university opened its arms to another political failure.'
UD's impressed to see students not only paying attention to some of their university's, er, non-standard appointments, but complaining about them. There are always some people who end up in university positions for bad reasons. Students, who pay extremely high tuitions, deserve professors who are really professors, and who have earned appointment through a competitive process ending in a department vote.
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