RECLAIMING THE ACADEMY: Tightly Wound proposes a recertification course for those "who spent their college careers railing against the status quo created by those over thirty, only to find themselves both over thirty and in the position of defending their own status quo." Number 2 Pencil is not that impressed with the status quo; sees much of the professoriate recognizing that it's been mugged by reality. The real test of success will not necessarily be viewpoint diversity. It will not be the liberation of People's Park in Berkeley. Rather, it will be when the professoriate instills a sense of purpose in students such that all will be ashamed to give this impression.