Sara Townsley, a graduate student in biology (among other things--she should start a blog), offers a field guide to the Cornell University campus.

The Gray-Tufted Nostalgic Lamprey. Physically less imposing than their fearsome and often irreversibly tenured colleagues, comprising the bulk of the liberal arts faculty. These herbivorous throwbacks can be identified by their poor hygiene, old Volvos and apparent lack of vertebrae or testicles. As committed Marxists, a century of genocide poses a bothersome snag; thus, they're prone to historical revisionism and faddish prejudices. These aging, conformist pseudo-radicals still regard themselves as courageous rebels, despite having built a habitat cleansed of all but lock-step sycophants. Found in organic markets, peace protests and pricey restaurants.

It sounds like a similar habitat to Ann Arbor, Madison and Berkeley.

Didn't see to many of those at Auburn (in Southern Alabama if you don't follow football:)

having spent 3 years each at Auburn and Cornell, I have to agree with Sara and with Dan. some of these species were indeed represented at Auburn, though not with the population density evident in Ithaca.

while i was at Cornell, a black man and his mother broke into the home of a white family of four, raped mother and daughter, then killed all four, set the house on fire, and went on an upstate NY shopping spree, using the victims' credit cards. of course they were apprehended.

the media outcry in Ithaca was not about the crime, but about the fact that the crime was only getting public attention because the victims were white.

it's a beautiful campus and town, but there are some extremely ugly people who live and work there.

I hope they don't kick her out for not using the "correct" free speech. I've always been partial to the full-breasted, split tailed mattress thrasher.

There were really some at Auburn? Not Engineering professors, I guess. I had a political economics professor who said he was the only liberal in the deparment, but he was from New York, so he couldn't help it. All my English Profs were Evangelical Chrsitians, so I must have missed them. Lucky me.