Posted on 11/04/2009 6:32:33 AM PST by markomalley
There's an old story about a Harvard professor who gets a call from the president (of the United States) and responds that his president is the president of Harvard.
Being a professor at Harvard is like that. Academics in Cambridge are a big deal; Harvard is an amazing place; and if you're lucky enough to make it there, you generally never leave. Why would you?
I left for the University of Southern California 20 years ago. It was not an obvious move at the time, unless you were a football coach. But I was pregnant with my daughter, and short of delivering at O'Hare, it was time to stop commuting.
My only previous experience at USC was when we stopped there during the 1984 presidential campaign. Vice President Mondale's appearance was cut short when fraternity boys started throwing tomatoes. Not an auspicious introduction. But the dean of the law school offered me a chair, a parking space and a personal assistant, and more money than the budget-strained folks at UCLA, so I jumped in the pool.
Steve Sample came the next year.
The riots were the next year.
On Monday, Sample announced his retirement after 19 years as president of USC. If you ever wonder whether sustained strong leadership can change institutions, look at USC. He did.
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Most university presidents don't make it past 10 years these days. USC picked the right guy 20 years ago, and then they gave him the time and the support to change the face of a university.
Sorry, Barack, but Steve Sample is my president, and I have been very lucky for that.
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Ms Estrich omits the fact that no school with any modicum of a respectful football program would want a coach from Harvard!
I can't tell if she's saying that she's too edumacated to consider anyone but her old dean as her true BFF, or if she's making a super-edumacated psycho-transference interpretive analogy to say Obama is no longer her BFF, or if she's just going back to being one of Hillary's hags and she wants to make some sort of edumacated-woman-to-woman veiled in-the-know announcement about it.
In any event, she seems far too edumacated to realize she's irrelevent.
Shocking. Can’t stand her voice and I’m sure her politics haven’t changed. But for her to diss Zero is a real surprise.
By the end of the week, Michelle's going to have to take Obama to a concert and try to lose him on the way home.
Help me out...what was the message in this column? That she doesn’t think of Obama as highly as she once did?
The last paragraph of the piece is a total non-sequitur. But, coming out of Susan Estrich's pie-hole, it's funny.
Thanks mark...I went back and read it a bit closer. I think she was trying to politely exhort Obama to start being a leader, and not a community organizer.
20-25 years ago, she may have been nice looking. After all, too much beach without sunscreen and too many cigarettes can have an impact on a woman's voice and skin.
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