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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted the link, and I have never posted about free speech or the lack thereof at Swarthmore.  I haven't read the study.  But facts are facts, and there is no getting around that Bowdoin offered a course on "queer gardening." Some parents expect more for $50k.[/quote]

Well, it's a good thing Queer Gardening isn't the only course on offer, then! Like you, I too know little about the place, but at least I can google that it's $58K. Also unlike you, I'm not going to rely on this hatchet job to fill the gaps in my Bowdoin knowledge.[/quote]

The report (not read in entirety) appears to address curriculum and other related issues  concerning the named school.  Not sure how in the world that constitutes an attack on free speech?  A few of the posters on this thread are incredibly defensive about posters noting the decline in the liberal arts schools.  Instead of attacking the messenger (an old Clinton trick), why not offer constructive suggestions to the school on how to bring back the true liberal arts school as it was originally designed! [/quote]

We're offended by the cheapness and dishonesty of these attacks. I don't care particularly about Bowdoin per se and my kid goes to a different university. But when some rich conservative buys a paid hack to compile an anecdotal list of supposed wrongdoings as part of a revenge strategy, that's a travesty that I feel I need to respond to. Go to Bowdoin's website, like I just did, and you will see a full roster of traditional courses like Chemistry, Biology, Poly Sci and Economics.

But why the heck do you care if someone, somewhere, is taking courses on GLBT studies? I'm not any of GLBT either. A handful of non-traditional courses in a sea of traditional course offerings does not spell the "decline of liberal arts", that's just ridiculous.

Oh, and sorry another poster confused you with the ban-free-speech-at-Swarthmore poster. Sometimes it's hard to tell the outlandish right wing posters apart.[/quote]

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