The Chronicle: Career Network: 03/29/2002

Academicians, Ms. Mentor notes, are not always the most courageous fighters for principle. And so, instead of the bright young postcolonialist who'd been brought to campus and royally feted, the department hired a rather foggy personage whose expertise was Old English philology. And since hardly any students would willingly sign up for that, the department quickly made Old English philology a requirement for all majors. Students fled, and the ranks of general studies and communications majors swelled to bursting. But Professor Cheese was appeased and pleased.