New to teaching, I was proudly gazing at a sign on my office door proclaiming “Assistant Professor Grossman,” when the department secretary knocked.
“Would you like seasons tickets for the faculty cheering section in the football stadium?” she asked.
“No thank you,” I said, effectively ending my social life at the University of Nebraska. I didn’t realize it wasn’t a question but an imperative. Faculty members were expected to wear sweaters with the school colors and hold up colored pieces of cardboard to spell out, in giant letters, eternal verities like: “Hold That Line!”
Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune
November 20th, 2011 at 2:05PM
No doubt UD and I are savoring the recent football victory of our alma mater, Northwestern, over Nebraska.
Oh, and the graduation rate for football players at Northwestern is consistently the best in the Big Ten. Nationally second only to Notre Dame.