The Dark Secrets of Barth and Williams College: A Comedy in Two Semesters

The Dark Secrets of Barth and Williams College is a rabbithole into a world where common sense characters are helpless in the face of hyperbolic depravity. Get ready to be transported to the seedy underbelly of Lutheran academia. The journey is no less hilarious than you might imagine. At Barth and Williams College Professor Theodore Roosevelt Thompson is adored by his students and respected by his peers but the board of trustees endlessly questions the legitimacy of Thompsons courses on future studies. Nevertheless when the college president dies during the fall semester of 1968 the board begs Thompson to serve as interim president. Reluctantly Thompson agrees to assume the post out of a sense of duty. In his new position it isnt long before he discovers the colleges extensive involvement in organized crime. As he methodically uncovers the corruption Thompsons personal life becomes a struggle. Thompsons Korean girlfriend Park Mi-kyung wants to marry him. Thompson is genuinely enamored with Mi-kyung but he has a phobia concerning marriage which he has intellectualized in his political and philosophical publications. As the intrigue at the college grows dangerous and tensions with Mi-kyung reach a breaking point Thompson is challenged to take actions he sought to avoid as a college professor leading a sedentary and cerebral life.