Higher Edukation

Perusing an article on the "lucky losers" of reality TV (SHE BANGS!), you can run across this little gem:

"The losers are so much more interesting than the winners are," said Robert Thompson, director of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of Popular Television. "You don’t have to win to become the star of a hit television show."

Maybe never more true words could be spoken by Mr. Thompson, But what gets me is that Mr. Thompson directs Syracuse University's Center for the Study of Popular Television. The center is the home of a "rare and complete set of scripts and videotapes of all six seasons" of St. Elsewhere as well as a book series, two volumes of which are entitled, "Deny All Knowledge: Reading the X Files" and "Gen X TV: 'The Brady Bunch' to 'Melrose Place'"

I'm wondering if they do most of their research in the dorms.