FrontPage magazine has published my article on hoax colleges and real ones, entitled “The Joke’s on U.” A couple of excepts:
In the new movie, “Accepted,” a group of friends make up their own college after being rejected by real ones. It’s a comedy, of course. But the real joke is, our protagonists don’t dream up anything for their hoax college that you can’t already find in American academe, even in some of the most reputable universities. …
Gaines’ students studied such topics as “Slacking 101,” “How to Be a Rock Star,” “Babe Watching,” and “Men: The Weaker Sex.” Actual universities carry courses focused on video games, movies, NASCAR, and TV shows such as “The Simpsons” and “SpongeBob SquarePants”; courses on rock & roll and hip-hop; classes in sexuality and pornography; and entire departments devoted to “Women’s Studies.”
