A dangerous man

I was a little sad when I heard my friend Steve Hsu had accepted a position at Michigan State some months back. My reasons were two-fold. First, I swing by Eugene now and then, and I wouldn't have the opportunity to drop in on his office. Second, it seemed that Steve was becoming an Administrator. To some extent I feel like that's going over to the dark side. But ultimately it's his decision, and Steve has a lot of things going on at any given moment, and I'm hopeful he'll continue to be involved in the production of scholarship in some form (he's more of a scholar than most as it is). Now apparently his move has resulted in submerged tensions coming to the fore. You can read the article in The Lansing Journal, New director's experience a plus for MSU, but his controversial views concern some. Let's qualify who ...