You know, we may think of most of these people as liberal, but most readers are going to scratch their heads over YAF listing Pataki with the liberals. Most people wouldn't think of Bloomberg as liberal either. Nor Thomas Friedman, for that matter, despite evidence to the contrary.
Speaking of English students picking up leaves, here's a little ditty from USA Today on English PhD's driving buses:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2003-05-19-oplede_x.htmFrom your linked article:
One survey found only 35% of students received realistic job-placement information from their departments.
It sounds to me that these departments are committing wholesale fraud. Regardless, shouldn't these PhD candidates be able to do their own independent job-market research??