EDIT: just a quick addendum. Wouldn't it be cool to have a dean who didn't try to sabotage his or her own students academic careers based on their union activity? A dean whose work actually reflected stuff you were interested in, cared about, and whose approach to life, rather than being an imperious good old boy give zach schwartz-weinstein bizarre inexplicable stares on the street kind of thing, administrative illusion of the survival of a liberal arts education in the age of the globalized university which both indicates the ideological pitfalls of said liberal arts education and ultimately functions as just another new form of 'flexible' management, connects academic work to struggles for social justice? So if not Alicia, consider Steve Pitti, Michael Denning, Hazel Carby, Laura Wexler, Vron Ware, Paul Gilroy...

Actually, i need to go, because i owe Laura Wexler a paper from last semester and really need to get it done.  ¶ 5:56 PM