9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for January 11, 2005

Transcript:

"You can't just walk in and resign, Dr. Burber. Your contract obliges you to a set period of service. And the college expects you to show some appreciation for it's generous investment in you." "Oh, I appreciate everything... The pandemic football fetish that lies over the campus like an incubus, the degraded entrance requirements mirrored in the inferiority of the graduates you blithely inflict on society, all in the interest of turning a buck..." "...The unrelenting interference with my teaching, the debasement of academic standards, the nepotism, the back-scratching, the good-old-boy sexual harassment..." "Before you go further, would you consider a moderate retirement package?" "I prefer the word "handsome"."