<p>Perhaps Axelrod wouldn’t have mentioned “a kind of frustration” with his years at the U of C if he had thoroughly enjoyed his time here, but there’s no reason to interpret his answer as meaning anything beyond the political. All he’s really saying is that the university didn’t offer as many practical opportunities as he’d wanted (and one alum recently wrote an interesting piece that questions even this claim: [Campus</a> politics, then and now ? The Chicago Maroon](<a href=“http://chicagomaroon.com/2012/12/04/campus-politics-then-and-now/]Campus”>http://chicagomaroon.com/2012/12/04/campus-politics-then-and-now/)). </p>
<p>And for what it’s worth, I happen to like Hyde Park quite a bit.</p>