AM Juster, whose work I’ve mentioned here before (in ordinary life, he was the former head of the Social Security Administration) wrote this poem, apparently in April of this year. The title is Letters to a Friend Confused About the Ivy League; its form, as Joseph Bothum (Ancient and Modern Poetry) noted, is “an elegiac couplet, … a hexameter walk, It’s five steps behind.” You can read the full article here.
I should point out that my experience as dean of the UCLA School of Law was not the same as what Juster describes, even though I was very different from them. But I’ve certainly heard things like this before, especially given the poetic license to engage in a certain degree of exaggeration; see, for example, Jonathan Adler’s “A Horrifying View of Free Speech and Academic Freedom at Harvard.”
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