Northern Exposure

It's official. Robert Dynes, President of the University of California system and a native of Canada, announced the hiring of his friend, fellow Canadian Robert Birgeneau (currently President of the University of Toronto) to be the new Chancellor of the Berkeley campus (link here). A pair of Canadians at the helm. Lovely. Sure they are both eminent research physicists and first tier college administrators. But they are also Canadian. Try as I might, I can't help but recall that other Canadian pair, the McKenzie brothers, played by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas in the 80's film, Strange Brew (link here). I can already see Dynes and Birgeneau in the corner sipping cheap Molson beer from the can, yelling "ya' hoser" at Ward Connerly during the Board of Regents meetings. Heaven help us. We'll have to tack on "eh" to the end of every Cal cheer from now on. "Go Bears, eh", "Beat Stanford, eh". Damn those Canadians.