My brother, who is a doctoral student in the ever popular Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard, suggests that the Corporation should have a Harvard Idol competition to pick the new president. They could then flaunt their progressive chops in front of a live studio audience, as they assure Harvard’s tenured faculty that they can go back to teaching one course a year. And yes Cornel West, you can come back to the new Harvard where a rap CD and a cameo in the Matrix sequels will be considered serious scholarship.