Attention Randolph-Macon SEC - Outstanding Rush Prospect !

The President of Randolph-Macon College has enrolled as a Freshman at St. Johns College in Annapolis, Maryland. Roger "Rusty" Martin has taken a semester long sabbatical to "study the freshman experience in a way that would be impossible from the president's office".

Martin didn't hide his identity from the students and faculty at St. John's. He and college administrators agreed that Martin would attend classes and events but would live off campus, with his wife and dog. He would take notes in class, but he wouldn't speak.

Martin, a lifelong educator trained to lecture, worried he might upset the balance of St. John's painstakingly egalitarian seminars if he spoke.

"He wanted to see the freshmen up close, and kind of be in the milieu, and see what effect reading and studying those things has on the way they talk with each other and the way they think about life," St. John's Dean Harvey Flaumenhaft said.

Good for him. Maybe the members of the Randolph-Macon SEC could offer to complete his experience by offering him a "Renaissance of Brotherhood" membership.

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