A tiered cake represents the academic hierarchy: the vice-chancellor as a decorative top, professors in a smaller but richer layer, and researchers at the bottom holding everything up. The cartoon humorously illustrates how each layer of academia contributes.
Creation date
2016-04-18AltText
A tiered cake labeled with VC, professors, and researchers as academic layers.Transcript
Academic cake
VC
Inedible decoration with no actual value to the cake
Professors
Top layer smaller and inexplicable richer
Researchers
Bottom layers hold up rest of the cake and always the first to be cut
