Two years of prizes, plus two staff for two years, plus all of that paid national advertising the first year, plus all of the production costs of the videos, plus all of the general support costs for the committee and the cost of office operation. Easily over half-a-million dollars a year and now well over a million overall.

What has this prize brought us other than the echo-chamber of self-adulation that detracts from the more pressing and mission-critical reality that we are an ever-declining educational institution (#22 and falling…).