The hatchet-faced Kenyan: henchman, fitness authority, room-checker

texture · STANDING

• When: STANDING identity across the Nov YDAU window.
• What: Nwangi's portrait is a few hard repeated strokes. In the little kids' resentful taxonomy he is core regime: the litany of enemies recited in Hal's Big Buddy session runs "DeLint. Watson. Nwangi. Thode. All Schtitt's henchmen and henchwomen." (an unattributed Little Buddy's line — Blott's contribution is the answering "I hate them!"). To the same little kids he is the standard-setter whose pronouncements circulate on his name alone — "Ingersoll: 'The average North American kid can't even do one pull-up, according to Nwangi.'" And off-court he is the regime's eye: of all the prorectors nominally assigned room inspections, only deLint, Thode, and "the hatchet-faced Kenyan Tony Nwangi" have the follow-through, Nwangi keeping the Pemulis/Troeltsch/Schacht suite "under extremely beady scrutiny at all times."