A Question For The Candidate

What used to bear the name of  university

is now no more than an employee factory,

where students do not ponder truth and mystery,

but train instead to serve the world economy,

and lick the boots of those who climb the money tree.

They lick the boots and climb the greasy money tree.

 

What reason for our nation’s great hegemony?

Is it that we can buy and sell so easily,

with power gained from overwhelming G.N.P?

Or was it due to our fathers’ ability,

to separate illusion from reality?

They separated daydreams from reality.

 

So tell us what he offers as a legacy?

He lays claim to a certain versatility

but has no Latin, Greek, or ancient history

to turn away the charge of illiteracy;

to prove him worthy of our meritocracy.

Worthy to lead our honored meritocracy.

 

 

Louis William Rose

May 2003

 

Written in response to the disturbing trend of hiring politicians to be university presidents

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