Who made this cr@p up? Professors in the faculty lounge as they passed the pipe around?
From the article in The Crimson: "FAS Registrar Michael P. Burke said the change, which administrators have discussed for a number of years..."
Most of the real rot in academe (leaving aside what happens in departments and programs with names of the form [Affirmative-action-beneficiary-group] Studies) comes not from the professoriate, but from the administrative superstructure.