Professor Guilliame Caltrop is a man with problems. He's surrounded by people who continually bombard him them with issues of their own - seeming friends and colleagues willing to stick the knife in where they can, old warriors from the psychedelic era rampaging at heedless bureaucrats, students who can't see straight concocting plots to blow up the classroom, rednecks with a grudge out to blow up him. Will his worthiness as a thinker stand up to the scrutiny of the alphas who run his college and hand him his meal tickets?