Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 01, 2012
June 30, 2012
July 02, 2012
Transcript:
Dean: Here he comes... I've got to be firm! In short, Mr. Harris, we feel it's time for you to move on. You've been at Walden long enough! Zipper: It might seem so, Dean Campbell... yet I would argue, as Thomas Jefferson did, that education shouldn't have arbitrary parameters... Mr. Jefferson believed colleges shouldn't even grant degrees, that students should just stay until they felt educated! Dean: I see. And when do you anticipate feeling educated? Zipper: One more year should do it. Dean: One more year? Zipper: Tops. Yo, it worked! Who's Thomas Jefferson? Student: The dude on the nickel.
Well, our “wonderful” governor just reinstated the real-estate developer business woman, who tried to fire President Sullivan, as the rector of the board of visitors of MR. JEFFERSON’S school. Business trumps learning… TJ must be spinning, considering that creating UVA was, what he felt to be, hist most important legacy.