The dean of the UT Knoxville college of engineering is sitting in the middle of a large conference room on the campus of Davidson College in Charlotte, NC, attending a meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, when his phone blows up with dozens of texts.
Most of them are from his secretary, his assistant dean, and a couple of his more senior professors. They're all super-worried because the dean's use of the university aircraft to get to the conference has become a sensation on social media. But way down at the bottom, there's a single text from a fella named Danny White: "good job!" is all it says.
The Dean smiles and goes back to listening to the conference speaker.