As soon as she announced that she was leaving her post to become the president of Amherst College, UW-Madison Chancellor Carolyn ?Biddy? Martin faced an onslaught of op-eds and feature stories attempting to quantify and summarize her impact on the university as a whole during her tenure here?her legacy, her policies, her controversies. None of that is really in The A.V. Club wheelhouse. Instead, we opted to evaluate how Biddy asserted her role as Chancellor over the campus literary scene, Babcock ice cream, and YouTube to influence Madison?s pop-culture zeitgeist.
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