It Pays to Be an Activist

University of California–Berkeley students march through campus as part of an "open university" strike in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement in Berkeley, Calif, on Nov. 15, 2011. Max Whittaker/Getty Images

Commentary

Do you recall the shrieking undergrad at Yale, the one yelling at professor Nicholas Christakis on the quad? As the professor spoke calmly to dozens of students surrounding him, at one point, she commanded him to shut up, tossed a few f-words at him, and wondered how he ever got his faculty post in the first place.