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Some of the most articulate, humorous artists in America have turned their creative energies loose on the topic of higher education. This collection of articles, poems, and cartoons pokes irreverent fun at nearly every aspect of academia. In this anthology nothing is sacred; everything is fair game: admission procedures, intercollegiate sports, student affairs, professors, college presidents, commencements, alumni affairs, and fund-raising, and the curriculum - English, music, art, history, philosophy, science - to name a few. From Mark Twain to Andy Rooney, everyone who has had something funny to write, draw or put into verse, concerning higher education is presented in this comprehensive anthology, including: Richard Armour, Woody Allen, Theresa Bloomingdale, Jeremy Bernstein, John Barth and Russell Baker. Though higher education is universally renowned for fostering prodigious learning and wondrous knowledge, in Hail to thee, Okoboji U.!, Mark Ebersole’s selections remind us that many an eminent, intellectual institution is caught on the meshes of the nonsensical and the ludicrous - the querulousness of faculty meetings, the fostering of college presidents, the banality of commencement speeches, the inanity of arcane scholarship - and therefore, the institution’s important personages best not take themselves too literally or too seriously.
