…as Mel Brooks said; and one perennial danger for long-serving university presidents is indeed a slide toward the regal. The trustees and the alumni organization love the big guy and do his bidding … He makes far more money than the governor of his state… the president of his country… It goes to his head.
The creepingly kinglike president of North Dakota State has just resigned, announcing that it’s “not fun” to have his expensive travel and house and everything criticized all the time. If he wants his wife on the booster club payroll and if he wants a personal bodyguard who’s captain of the campus police force, it’s his business.
NDSU’s president has been pressured out just in time. You want to keep an eye on the regal slide and interrupt it, as they have in Fargo, at mid-slide. Otherwise you’re on your way here.