I'm in the NYU library now. I've actually sort of gotten excited about my schoolwork, which is nice. I re-read this article by David Hollinger about cosmopolitanism and intellectuals and stuff. Really liked it.

In other news, the Harvard-Yale football game is tomorrow. Do I care about this? Not really. Though Harvard's running back is a nice young man from Toronto named Clifton Dawson, and I hope he does well.

The big football game this weekend is of course Ohio State versus Michigan. Michigan is the underdog, and I have enough friends from Michigan to warrant rooting for the Wolverines.

The real football game though involves Rutgers and Cincinnati. Rutgers is the big story of NCAA football this year. I root for them for four reasons: 1) They are an underdog to go to the national championship game, but do have a chance, 2) Rutgers is in New Jersey, 3) my friend Yosef went to Rutgers, and mostl importantly, 4) Paul Robeson went to Rutgers and played on the football team there. Who is Paul Robeson? Only the greatest African-American Communist of all time. He was also a superb student, a lawyer, pro football player, actor and gospel singer and friend of the Jews. A truly great man. Go Rutgers.