Counterattack at Colorado

Six years ago when Quigg Newton became president of the University of Colorado it was, and was known as, a “ski school”—and a ski school was no place for the Liberal Democrat ex-mayor of Denver. He would create, he announced, a “Harvard of the West.”

It did not take Quigg Newton long to learn that in new Harvards, as in old Harvards, control is divinely vested in the Establishment. But he was a politician, not an “educator,” and although he could finance and administrate his Harvard, he lacked that Establishment party card, reputation. Reputation was just what the University’s Liberals had to offer. And so a union was sealed, the Liberals giving him their benison and he, in turn, plighting them the trough.

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Six years ago when Quigg Newton became president of the University of Colorado it was, and was known as, a “ski school”—and a ski school was no place for the Liberal Democrat ex-mayor of Denver. He would create, he announced, a “Harvard of the West.”

It did not take Quigg Newton long to learn that in new Harvards, as in old Harvards, control is divinely vested in the Establishment. But he was a politician, not an “educator,” and although he could finance and administrate his Harvard, he lacked that Establishment party card, reputation. Reputation was just what the University’s Liberals had to offer. And so a union was sealed, the Liberals giving him their benison and he, in turn, plighting them the trough.