Brian K. Beck, '59
Poison-Pen Personnel-Portrait Portfolio.. Paperback, 142 pages; Wonderside Productions, LLC, July 2002; ISBN: 0-9645-4029-0.
Beck, professor emeritus of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, offers herein some 45 pieces of satire, comedy, and moral critique on higher education, concerning people and programs in college and university life today.
Guaranteed by the author to be "free of political correctness," the book was characterized by one reviewer as having been "written with a keen ear, an indelible 'poison pen,' and the cheeky persistence of a social reformer."
From Henry the paranoid department chair to Leonard the homophobic custodian, Beck has a tart word or two for all those who go around and around in academic circles.
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