AI-I Champ in the News

For reasons that have escaped us [although it has provided hours of material] since the inaugural AI when Gordon declared victory after 27 holes and fled Orlando to 'play' softball, there is a softball league in which a person can simply stand around for hours on end, intermittently wave a bat at a ball pitched at 5 or 6 mph and consider that he has 'played' a game.  Admittedly, this league is in Sarasota, where someone is considered young if they can wait until 6pm to eat dinner.  Hours that could have been spent doing more productive things such as rearranging the spice rack, cleaning the grout in the shower or watching reruns of "The Munsters" were instead spent in an activity presaging recreation hour in a nursing home.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the New College Bones Softball Team.  A team of inclusion.  Anyone is welcome: toddlers, relics, men, women, the tall, the short and some who can actually still kneel - and more importantly, get back up.

On another note, Gordon continues to exploit his faithful companion Sam as a way to pad his bona fides as a scientist.  Gordon is a major player in one of the more pressing controversies facing modern academia:  should students be allowed to have pets on campus?  This, along with trigger warnings prior to teaching a particular book or topic in order to protect fragile students' psyches and the dangers of gluten are the defining issues facing today's college educators and Gordon, too.  See this photo from the Sarasota Herald Tribune featuring Sam and sycophantic companion.