How had I not seen this before?

Madison Starship, Monroe Starship...

Mine too! 😔

I have an 11x17 of this in my office! (from Paperback Paradise)

Lawrence? Topeka?

In the back of my mind I’ve always worried that this was intentional: that unless you’ve first learned to be a small cog in the policy machine your expert knowledge isn’t actually wanted.

I want to know the backstory on who did the art covering this thing and whether they knew what it was going to be used for.

Feel like it’s the right time for people to start performing that play again.

Same

Thanks for Beetlejuicing

Duckberg is Omelas

The town of Kier shows up as "Kier PE" in addresses seen in the show, but PE isn't a real state abbreviation. I second the upstate New York (Great Awakening) vibes.

I'd like to report a murder.

And on top of that “good soldierism” is rampant, so senior faculty and lower level admins will defer to “the institution” and avoid doing anything that someone higher up hasn’t explicitly approved. Knowing your place > acting on principle.

Yep!

But also, the NSF Political Science program gets singled out most.

That raises the possibility that they don’t know what social science is, they just want to make sure “liberal professors” don’t get money to talk about politics.