Required Reading for the CultureGrrl Syllabus

I’ve gotta run, but not without telling you that your assignment for today, class, is to pick up a copy of today’s Wall Street Journal, to read the front-page story about how Stanford University president John Hennessy‘s close and problematic ties to the tech industry have earned him, in the past five years, “fees, stock and paper stock-option profits totalling $43 million.”
And I’m complaining about Glenn Lowry?
On the front page of the Pursuits section, another must-read: Jacob Hale Russell describes how the Getty Museum’s photography curator Weston Naef has built the collection through “back-scratching, schmoozing and hope.”
I thought that photography would be the least likely part of the Getty’s trove to be enmeshed in problematic collecting practices. Having read this article, I think I was wrong.
More on all this later.