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[quote=Anonymous][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), [b]why not offer constructive suggestions to the school on how to bring back the true liberal arts school as it was originally designed![/b] [/quote]

Perhaps because many of us don't believe that the school has strayed from providing a true liberal arts education?  And your assumption, based on an "analysis" in a conservative rag comissioned by a person with a grudge against the school president, is also an old debating trick called assuming facts not in evidence.  That's not attackign the messenger, by the way - it's pointing out that just because you swallowed that drivel, it's wrong to assume all of us are so gullible.  [/quote]

I wonder if the hatchet job poster went to a liberal arts college. S/he completely misses the distinction between an "elective" and a "major." Nobody is spending $58K to major in queer gardens. You can't major in queer gardens, because Bowdoin only offers one course in queer gardening. [/quote]

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