My referral log tells me that many Vanderbilt people are reading UD on the insult of your university having rewarded a plagiarist with a medal and the keynote speech on Senior Class Day.
Know that you are not alone. When the University of Virginia gave her a high-profile appointment, people there were also outraged.
As Randy Newman reminds us, it’s a great big dirty world.
But it’s incredibly important to kick against that world. Keep it up.
“We must educate those who will lead the institutions that will serve as engines of prosperity in our economy. But we must also instill in them the importance of ensuring that these engines of prosperity are engines for all,” intoned then-President Larry Summers at a Harvard religious gathering.
But Summers’ own engine rides so high… the throttle on that thing… It’s like… here’s Larry on his prosperity engine:
Why is he riding so high?
According to the NYT, Larry Summers worked just one day a week while making $5.2 million in two years at hedge fund D.E. Shaw.
So let’s say he worked 100 days total, that’s $52,000 per day.
And assuming he worked about 12 hour days, that’s $4,333 per hour.
Ride ’em, cowboy! Hell, plenty to go around! With his common touch, Summers is just the man to ensure that America’s engines of prosperity are engines for all.
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Point of Clarification: Why only one day a week?
Because he was a full-time professor at Harvard at the same time.
… when she lived on Capitol Hill, died too soon.
But before he died, Judge Graae had a chance to do something brave and important. He had the guts to put the DC housing authority in receivership, and many, many people benefited from this.
The drama at Clemson University, starring a retired French professor, is kind of like that. John Bednar has obviously decided, at an advanced age, to do something brave and important. He has very publicly accused the Clemson administration of serious corruption, and he continues to do so.
For this, he has been pilloried by Clemson’s leadership, and by many in the Clemson community.
We should all be so lucky.
UD salutes the young idealists featured in the three posts below. They are students at Harvard, the University of Minnesota, and George Washington University.
The words in my title come from Walt Whitman.