In this article, the author talks about his "educational prank" where six corporations "sponsored" his undergraduate course during the fall of 2006. He also contends that the "cutting workforce and extracting more labor for less compensation may increase the bottom line of corporations, but it's no way to run a university, for a number of reasons." Moreover, the author discusses the state of a liberal arts education in the University of Iowa. The troubles faced by the university emerge when they try to turn the university into "an economic engine for the state," a term the university's administrators are fond of using.