pt. 1. Mens -- The wrecking ball -- The steps of Widener -- The making of a department head -- The life of a department head -- pt. 2. et mania -- To be or not to be a university -- Housemaster -- Pornography and free speech -- Hacking -- Role compliance -- "Don't tell me what to do" -- Apartheid -- The aftermath -- After the aftermath -- What's going on here? -- Recommendation -- A good university is a bad business -- They R us -- Chūshingura and catastrophes -- Hello, I must be going
Summary
A memoir of MIT life, from being Noam Chomsky's boss to negotiating with student protesters