MICHAEL YATES wrote: >> Why would a leftist scholar want to be Provost of any university? >> Provosts do a lot of dirty work.
that's usually true. But at LMU, we once had a provost with little responsibility. The President -- a Jesuit, natch -- had to throw a lot of cocktail parties with potential donors. He decided that he needed a substitute wife to act as hostess. So they appointed a nun to the job. Nowadays, the provost is like the prime minister and the president is like the king (but still the major fund-raiser). As a possible sign of the times, he's not a Jesuit. He's not even Catholic! Yay! -- Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
