Like a Gadarene Swine

He was tired of being a college president. Peter H. Odegard had found the presidency of Oregon's prestigious little Reed College full of "multiple frustations." He made 200 speeches in one year, spent most of his time raising money. Said Odegard last week: "The isolation of a college executive from creative work is something I don't think people appreciate. The demands of his job allow him very little time for intellectual growth. He performs very much the function of the Gadarene swine.*

Last week, fed up with it all, 47-year-old President Odegard gave up his $12,000 job, got ready to go back to the classroom, at less pay, as chairman of the political science department at the University of California.

* At Gadara, Jesus cast the devils out of a man with an unclean spirit and sent them into a herd of 2,000 swine, which "ran violently down a steep place into the sea" (Mark 5:1-13).

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