Titled "There's Something About Mary," a feature article by Jen Wieczner for the Daily Northwestern paints a nuanced, engaging and rare picture of the link between administration and students, in the person of Mary Desler, the Northwestern University Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students.
Rare indeed is the student article this meticulously researched, intelligently written, and probing in its subject. Ms Desler evidently has quite the reputation ("In an A&O poll asking who would win in a three-way cage match—Desler, Jack Bauer or Chuck Norris—she was winning with 37 percent"), and Ms Wieczner pulls no punches in recounting both unexpectedly positive and protracted negative encounters. The stories she selects as exemplary are compelling, ranging from a Delta Upsilon deputy catapulted into the presidency with her connivance, to a student ultimately hounded from the university after being attacked by a knife-wielding assailant. . . . but no summary will do the article justice.
While Northwestern students will have the greatest connection to the subject matter, the article is excellently composed and should interest anyone with a connection to greek and college life. Your correspondent recommends it without reservation.
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