Amy Gutmann’s Unwanted Internet Fanbase
The perils of being a 21st-century university president: A possibly deranged individual named “Blayney” has posted a couple of creepy paragraphs on his personal blog about Penn’s Amy Gutmann. From his writings, it emerges that the author is a Penn grad and former priest who now reads Penn’s alumni magazine, well, only to look for pictures of her:
Penn named a new president last year. Amy Gutman [sic]. When I saw her picture - she is young, blond, with a nice smile, nice figure - I was spellbound. Why? You figure it out. I haven’t.
I graduated from Penn 45 years ago and have never been back. Send them a few bucks occasionally. Read the alumni magazine about all the fascinating things going on in the university, and check my class for luminaries and obituaries.
But since Amy became president I scour the magazine for pictures and news of her.
Now I understand better what made me so uncomfortable all those years as a parish priest, being a stand-in for the projections of people hungry for that other dimension.
Amy is my priest because she is the leader of my church, the academy. And she often wears red.
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