re L.S.D. & Weed

[Terrance]

the basic insecurity of the college professor--emotionally, socially,
economically, and intellectually--has been commented on by many authors.
yet, the stereotype of the calm, pipe puffing, self-contained professor
has been  a difficult one ot shatter. there is, in fact, an intoxicating
quality to teaching ignorant young people and the professor himself
often loses his higher view of things, develops a head, begins
fraternizing with graduate students in fringe departments . . .
occasionally a sissy as a child and usually deviant from his peer group
because of his intellectuality; basking in, or enduring, as the case may
be, an inordinately prolonged psychosocial moratorium to complete his
education; finding  hi s time and energy absorbed by a variety of
teaching, administrative, and sterile committee activities at the peak
of his productive life; discovering that his high-minded and and
idealistic young bride is a jinx, and as years pass, expects him to play
ball with the kids and take out the trash; underpaid; and alternately
idolized and vilified by his students, it is small wonder that the
college professor often withdraws into a life that is void of emotional
closeness and personal involvement. a kind of intellectuality that
precludes valid communication between human beings, immense
psychological distance, and an essentially passive orientation toward
life all too often characterize the university faculty. competition in
the university is fierce, and departmental politics are vicious, if
covert, with publications and research grants as the usual dueling
weapons" but code of honor is ill-defined, and one may get shot in the
back.