From the Academy

Behold Behemoth, Merit Scholars

while moralists fulminate, MSU continues to seek to enroll practically everybody. (With every new freshman, the price of land in East Lansing rises higher.) But don’t think that Behemoth desires merely dullards. There’s a place on the Friendly Campus for even National Merit Scholars. When the National Merit Scholarship program commenced, not a single National Merit Scholar made MSU his first choice as the institution of higher learning in which he would like to enroll. (This commentator pointed out that unpalatable fact at the time.) Undismayed, MSU proceeded to buy National Merit Scholars, after the fashion in which football players are acquired.