I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there.

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

I often have said that to be a college president you need a thick skin a good sense of humor and nerves like sewer pipes.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.