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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]Middlebury will never have trouble filling its classes with talented young people.

And it's stupid to think that that's the only campus where young people would've responded to Charles Murray like that. [/quote][/b]

Wrong on both counts.  Middlebury will go the way of Occidental College, which went too liberal and now has a 46.5% acceptance rate.  Parents won't be willing to pay $65,000 for that kind of nonsense.  Some might but most parents won't.  As to Charles Murray, you obviously haven't read his works or met him or you wouldn't be making such bigoted remarks.[/quote]

Can't say for sure it will go the way of Occidental.  But definitely not going to pay $65,000 for what I saw happening via media but more importantly by what I read from the professor who was attacked (see the NYT article she wrote).  [/quote]

I'm a Middlebury grad and this is all so weird and sad to hear. When I was there, the student body was sooo apathetic. No one could be bothered to protest anything. Even wearing an Aids ribbon was kinda shocking. Back then, most of the students were rich white prep school kids (like myself) and skewed pretty centrist. In the past two decades the school has worked really hard to be more inclusive and welcoming to students of all walks of life (which isn't so easy when in the middle of cold, rural Vermont) while also raising the bar on admission standards. I have been impressed with their efforts. The result is that there are now many voices on the campus and more groups feel empowered to speak out. I don’t agree with what they did but I don’t this it’s emblematic of the school as a whole. [/quote]

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