Five days to go, for the end of the hurricane season--and my retirement. Not sure if there is some irony there. Meanwhile, a Thanksgiving wish. I wish, truly wish, academia would be infected by an epidemic of "mad about the students" disease. It's symptoms are recognized by an unconditional welcoming and embracing of each student with an uncontrollable open-mindedness, open-heartedness, and open-armed sincerity. Our campuses should be ravaged by this affliction not because of some "thou shalt" fiat from higher up, not because we need to attract and keep students whose tuition increasingly pays the bills, but because it's simply the right thing to do.
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