In this 1933 musical comedy, the round-eyed, sweetly leering comedian Eddie Cantor stars as Eddie, a bookish drifter who is run out of the small town of West Rome for speakingtruth to the petty martinet of a mayor.
But if you buy into the notion of the university as a place where private investments bear fruit for private returns that kind of speakingtruth to power role is less and less possible.