<p>xiggi, you sometimes have a flair for the dramatic. I did not commit a crime, lie or do anything wrong for me to feel shame. </p>
<p>I am well aware of Michigan’s (and other major universities’) reluctance to invest in a department to help Rhodes scholars. I do not think Michigan tried to steal the thunder of others. But now that I look at it, I agree that Michigan should not claim Joseph Jewell as one of its Rhodes scholars.</p>
<p>Regardless, I still think that looking at the number of Rhodes scholars produced by a school is a poor measure of academic quality. Many excellent universities and colleges have underperfomed in this domain, including Boston College (2), Cal (22), CMU (3), Claremont McKenna (2), Columbia (27), Cornell (27), Michigan (25), NYU (5), Northwestern (15), Notre Dame (14), Penn (19), Tufts, (4), UCLA (11) and Vassar (2).</p>