Colleges and universities, long in the grip of aging ’60s radicals and other Marxist crap sellers, are being taken back by student and alumni activists. They’re tired of left-wing propaganda and indoctrination taking the place of actual scholarship.
College presidents are having to justify to stakeholders why they should remain in office. Gene Nichol of William and Mary is on the hot seat for his idiotic bowing to multiculti nonsense when he had a cross removed from a chapel so it wouldn’t offend Muslims. Campus and alumni outrage got the cross back. And Antioch college, which made national news a few years ago with a ridiculous student code on kissing and male-female relationships that seemed straight out of some futuristic totalitarian piece of fiction, has closed its doors because parents decided the place was too radical to teach their kids. Now, that’s the free market at work in spades.
Duke, where the infamous Duke Group of 88 showed during the Duke lacrosse case that Duke is a hothouse of radical faculty faux academics, needs to heed these trends. It went off the multiculti, PC deep end years ago, and the administration of Richard Brodhead seems to be continuing that path. With his inept handling of the Duke lacrosse issue, there is grumbling among the alumni at Duke. Watch your back, Richard. The natives are restless.
