It's not outrageous. In college I had a class at 7 at night. It's a fact of life.

You're only half-kidding about watering down. It's not right. Our students will go to college and have to compete against kids whose schools didn't water down their classes.

What you read at Columbia is Plato's Republic and Homer's Iliad. What you learn at Columbia is that reading isn't education. Education is figuring out the hard way that at a school like Columbia, what you read isn't nearly as important as what you wear, how you look, and how much you know about sucking up to professors who really couldn't give a shit about whether some nameless, faceless kid in the 23rd row will work or starve after graduation.

Don't let it get in the way of the schools working together. If we look at everything, we'll never get off the launching pad. ? Pick (the class) first, a class that would have been canceled. We don't want to find problems. We want to make plans and solve the problems when they come up.

We will work with the teachers at other schools. No teacher will be affected, and we will have more to offer for the kids.

It's Saturday night. Let's get drunk.