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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wesleyan in CT[/quote]

+1 for Wesleyan

Re: comments on SJW activity at SLACs. It’s not new. Back in the 90’s at Wes we called it “being PC.”  I had a hard time with it back then, but it made me think. Intellectual debates happened at meals & in dorms, there was room to process, and I came to my own conclusions - which were sometimes different than the party line.

Fast forward 20-25 years, and I work with a fair number of younger colleagues. My older and contemporaneous colleagues who went to more “hard-core” technical schools complain that they don’t understand the younger crew, but I think that all of the SJW-style activity back in the day at Wes has been a great help in relating to & understanding my reports & mentees. My boss jokes that I am a “millennial-to-boomer translator.”

The saying “Everything  old is new again” is often accurate. Overall, I think that it was good for me to hash out PC/SJW issues in my 20’s in an intellectually stimulating environment, as I am less likely to be flummoxed by the behavior of “kids these days” in my mid-late 40s.[/quote]

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