THE WRONG KIND OF RECOGNITION. Oakland University provost Virinder Mougdil, whose veto of a tenure recommendation for biologist Gabrielle Stryker has been noticed at Inside Higher Education, is the object of a nationwide search by Margaret Soltan at University Diaries, who would like to have a conversation with him.

Mr Mougdil is precisely the kind of administrator I had in mind when I wrote,

The executive suites at numerous universities are occupied by individuals who, if the word got out, would have to hide in spider holes rather than sip sherry in panelled common rooms. Clearly, what we lack is a proper card deck.

The last full report on the card deck is rather old. Although I have added a few names since then, and there are only 32 cards to fill on a sheepshead deck, as it's still fitting to use a complicated game that you don't play with a full deck here, there is room for Mr Mougdil somewhere in the deck, and the headhunting firm of Schneider u. Schwarz is at work finding a proper placement for the arbitrary and capricious Virinder Mougdil. Professor Soltan has not disclosed a reward for winkling him out.