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June 27, 2012 11:36 AM

Univ of VA as a microcosm of Educational Profligacy

by Roger Kimball, from Roger's Rules


Watching the bumbling spectacle of bureaucratic incompetence emanating out of Charlottesville put me in mind of that amusing old country and western song “First you say you will and then you won’t,/ Then you say you do and then you don’t,/ What are you going to do?” (Dum-dum-dum, Da-dum-dum-dum.)  Let’s see: it’s June 10: “University [...]


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