Finally, a post about Antioch that manages to suggest a genuine love of the place while also skewering the leaders of the last few decades–and the students of that time too. She even has the courage to light into the students who are there right now for not taking over the campus and demanding a better place to learn. If only the person had the additional courage to name Bob Devine outright, instead of referring to him twenty different ways to Tuesday.
I don’t buy the “PCism killed Antioch” thesis–unless you’re talking PC circa 1973, supplemented by some PC circa 1965, which inspired Dixon’s murderous plan to start branch campuses all over the planet. But I agree that all kinds of other folks have gotten off pretty easily, particularly on the discussion boards.
The only notes I would add would be a general slam against the somnolent (but hard working! never forget that!) faculty. I’d also include a plan to move forward–one that doesn’t piggyback on one of the Usual Bloviators.
