Augustine, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Buber, Paul Tillich, Thomas Aquinas and Plato. Years later, in a Birmingham jail cell with only his heart and his memory to guide him, Martin Luther King, Jr. From out of the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed Earth and the tracery of stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension.” Across the color line I move arm and arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. Du Bois cried out: “I sit with Shakespeare, and he winces not. The rest of the human condition and human experience, as far as the activists are concerned, just doesn’t matter. There is a growing misconception on so many college campuses today that mankind’s struggles, the human experience and everything worth writing about boils down to identity-as predefined by race, gender, sexuality and class. If you have any doubts, read about Oberlin College’s boycott of a local bakery.)Ĭatering to student demands about the curriculum would send a damaging signal. The growing administrative class on college campuses, which typically leans left of faculty and students and which increasingly tends to favor social activism, has had a profound impact on collegiate life nationwide. (Williams College spends 40 cents on administration for every dollar spent on instruction. Is it possible that the apparatus is keeping the apparatchiks so busy looking for offenses that they’ve turned to manufacturing them? There are 2,100 undergraduates at Williams and its Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity has 14 employees on its roster.
Williams has a “bias response team,” to which students can report incidents of bias and await official response from the compassionate commissars. A student can avoid ever taking a math course, or a course in economics, or a course on American history or government.įurther blame lies in administrative bloat. Williams bloviates about multiculturalism and diversity, but students are not required to do the hard work of studying someone else’s language. Some of the blame lies in academic permissiveness.
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