Reality on college campuses is reading like parody these days. Every outrage seems at first like a report from The Onion, but then comes the depressing realization that it’s real. Take the University of Delaware’s positively Hitleresque and Stalinesque new policy for students in dorms:

The University of Delaware subjects students in its residence halls to a shocking program of ideological reeducation that is referred to in the university’s own materials as a “treatment” for students’ incorrect attitudes and beliefs. The Orwellian program requires the approximately 7,000 students in Delaware’s residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism.

Fortunately, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has decided to sue:

“The University of Delaware’s residence life education program is a grave intrusion into students’ private beliefs,” FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. “The university has decided that it is not enough to expose its students to the values it considers important; instead, it must coerce its students into accepting those values as their own. At a public university like Delaware, this is both unconscionable and unconstitutional.”

Twenty years from now education professionals of today are going to look back on this era with embarrassment and try deperately to hide their involvement in its outrages.

UPDATE: More on this outrage from John Leo.