How "The Office" would play at Harvard

Graduate students at Harvard's Department of Government ("Political Science" to the rest of the academic world) have put together a video skit which adapts the British series "The Office." It's called The Department, features many of its leading lights, and is very funny. The subject: a takeover of the Department of Government by the Kennedy School of Government. Among other things, you get to see the high regard in which Harvard's political scientists hold the Kennedy School.
Which, not so incidentally, has just rebranded itself the "Harvard Kennedy School" with the acronym HKS. Goodbye KSG, hello HKS. Like HBS and HLS, see.
But returning to the skit, some doctoral students are obviously way too talented to be doing a Ph.D...
(Thanks to Jeff Frieden for forwarding the video.)

Comments

[Barkley Rosser]

Definitely a hilarious goof. I am wondering if the older prof who declared strong opposition to the proposed merger is one of the "theorists" who was slated for extinction. I did not recognize him. But then I presume all of the interviewees were in on the spoof.