The Wabash Commentary

God Bless the Laconic Man.

Words have become shields. Subterfuge. We talk face to face for forty minutes, yet we fail to communicate. A friend left his sophomore interview with a dean, and he said, “The deans are fake.”

Dr. Warner offered a taste of how things could be; how things should be. In simple language, scorning ostentation, Dr. Warner assessed the college of today and for tomorrow. He did not pull punches: the endowment has lost tens of millions of dollars, self interest consumes us. But he suggested how we could pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off.