Mere hours before the Iowa Board of Regents selected J. Bruce Harreld as the University of Iowa’s next president, a survey conducted by the UI chapter of the American Association of University Professors found that only 1.8 percent of faculty and 2.6 percent of other respondents answered in the affirmative when asked if the candidate was qualified for the position.

Little Village illustrator and contributing writer Tim Taranto responds:

"University of Iowa, where 3% is a passing grade!" -- illustration by Tim Taranto
“The University of Iowa, where 3% is a passing grade!” — illustration by Tim Taranto

Tim Taranto is a writer and artist from New York. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He advocates taking ones bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.

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