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The L Magazine just assembled a big feature cataloging who they have deemed some of the most prominent heroes and villains of this fair city. On the villains list? Our very own President John Sexton, pictured here in the most villainous image of him I could find on Flickr (the Yankees cap isn’t a very evil touch, but delivering speeches on jumbotron screens could be construed as maniacal).

Here’s the full text of his entry:

As Thoreau, or possibly Charles Schwab, advised: “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.” For almost a decade now, NYU has been livin’ the dream—their Unstoppable Hugging President’s dream, in which NYU is a visionary, transformative global research university for the new century, like a late-capitalist Harvard (we’re paraphrasing). This means, among other things, starting a satellite NYU in Abu Dhabi, eventually owning all property in Lower Manhattan, etc. More recently, in an effort to “maintain the University’s momentum” despite the recession, J-Sex has overseen cuts in student services, administrative hiring and raise freezes, and staff layoffs—while the Journalism Department announces the creation of six new Distinguished Writer-in-Residence positions, filled by big-name academic gets (momentum!). As Thoreau, or possibly Eric Tsang, also observed: “What thousands must die so that Caesar may become great.”

Photo by Flickr user meltingnoise used under a Creative Commons license.