There are so many qualified candidate for this trashy title, I don’t know how they honed the list down.
Aren’t the vast majority of colleges today leftist enclaves?
Sigh. My brothers in law punched in at Occidental, Berkley, and Hampshire. English majors all, except the one from Hampshire, which has no major. Vacations are hell.
Even formerly-staunchly conservative Texas A&M University recently hosted a separate “LGBT” graduation ceremony. Oh, and fisting seminars.
Gee, I expected to find UT-Austin, U of Iowa - Iowa City, U of Wisconsin, Madison on this list :)
University of California, Santa Cruz
What schools can we use to balance this list?
Hillsdale College for one.
I do not see Antioch on that list. Another Ohio haven for weird leftists.
How did Ithaca escape mention.
The stupid...it floats through the air with the greatest of ease!
I’m sure Berkeley, like most colleges, still has its share of dirty whiny hippies, but I think it’s on this list because of its history not because of current student radicalism. The best example of dirty hippies the guy could do was Robert Reich. College has gotten very expensive and upper middle class white kids (the ones who actually voted for Romney and to some degree Ron Paul) are attending Berkeley because it’s the most highly ranked school in the California state system. They’re working hard and many of them are probably playing quite hard but they’re definitely not dirty hippies.
If I had only known there were colleges without requirements where I could’ve got a free ride with no grades to worry over... I could’ve had a doctorate by now! Just imagine it - Dr. ‘Krag from Hampshire College majoring in economics. Of course, the joke would be on them: I’d land a career with the Ayn Rand Institute, where I’d spend my days mocking them.
Bookmark.
My stepdaughter applied to and was accepted at Evergreen. When I saw the course catalog, I told her she was free to attend on her own dime, but that I wouldn’t part with one red cent for an “education” at such a worthless dump.
Oberlin College was pushing same-sex marriage when I was in high school over three decades ago.
bfl
Gotta include University of California Santa Cruz because they are the folks who made Angela Davis a full professor and granted Huey Newton a PhD.
"The academic program is wholly unstructured." -Sarah Lawrence
"The major-less, requirement-free curriculum almost certainly helps..." - Bennington College
"Hampshire College does not provide majors or grades."
"The taxpayer-funded college has no grades. Instead, professors write narrative evaluations of each student’s work." - Evergreen State College
BTW, it is sad to see San Francisco State University on the list. I guess Language in Thought and Action, that excellent book written by one of their former presidents, S.I. Hayakawa, is banned reading on campus now.
S. I. Hayakawa, the renowned semanticist who defied striking student radicals at San Francisco State University in the late 1960s and subsequently was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Republican, died Thursday. He was 85. Spokesmen at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, Calif., said he had been hospitalized with bronchitis, and that he died of a stroke about 1 a.m. He had lived in the nearby town of Mill Valley. "He was invaluable during some very difficult times--a courageous man of integrity and principle," former President Ronald Reagan said in a statement.
At the time he was one of the most popular public figures in the state, a hero to multitudes of Californians outraged by student militants and Vietnam War demonstrators.
Those heroics began Dec. 2, 1968, when Hayakawa, an English professor who had just become acting president of San Francisco State, confronted a howling, jeering mob of striking students.
When he could not make himself heard over a blaring sound truck, Hayakawa leaped to the top of the truck and ripped the wires from the sound system--all recorded on live television.
Ooooh Rah! You were a good man, Professor Hayakawa!
(That's him in the Clark Kent glasses & Tam O'Shanter in the photo below)
At least Bard College gave us Becker and Fagen.
Friend of mine’s daughter went to Wesleyan. When he dropped her off for her first semester on one of the sidewalks someone had written in very large letters “Queer in 4 years or your money back”
He said to his daughter, “Are you sure you want to do this?”
She did stay and did graduate (in 3 years with a dual major, but it was sociology & women’s studies, sigh) and is now married (to a man) and expecting her first child. I guess my friend should seek a refund.