“Television crews moved onto the campus over the weekend to ask the professors and students how they felt about the prospect of the college closing. “How do you feel?” they would ask them. And also, “How does it feel?” And there were stories of other imminent college closings as well. The subject, originally addressed as an intellectual calamity, was increasingly discussed as an element of the marketplace. Those colleges with fat endowments, or those able to make money on their own, were the one...s that swam. The others were bound to sink. So versed had the public become in these matters that the fates of the colleges were generally lumped under “business news,” though there also were references on Entertainment Tonight and similar programs, which featured prominent Beet graduates. Among the college’s alumni were three U.S. senators, two congressmen, one cabinet member (Interior), one Supreme Court justice, the CEOs of six Fortune 500 companies, the CFOs of four, an Episcopal bishop, forty-eight writers for Comedy Central, and the booker on Ellen.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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