I have to agree with you Andy some of that required reading will leave you with the uneasy feeling that the inmates are running the asylum..excuse me..university. I will take your word on "The Metamorphosis". The author sounds like someone I am trying to remember to forget.
Their rioting in Africa
Their starving in Spain
There are hurricane's in Florida
And Texas needs rain
The whole world is festering
With unhappy souls
The French hate the Germans
The Germans hate the Poles
Italians hate Yugoslavs
South Africans hate the Dutch
And I don't like anybody very much
But we can be tranquil
And thankful and proud
for man's been indowed
with a mushroom shaped cloud
And we know for certain that
some lovely day
some one will set the spark
off and we will all be blown away!