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Notes & CommentsFebruary 2010 The Hamilton follies cont'd On the costs of contemporary college education. Speaking of political correctnesss, we have an innovative fundraising proposal for little Hamilton College in upstate New York. For years now, Hamilton has been a sort of poster-child for academic frivolity and adolescent leftism. How they have amused the public, endeavoring to bring homegrown terrorists like the Weather Undergrounder Susan Rosenberg to campus to be “writers and activists in residence.” Then there was the Ward Churchill affair, in which the college tried to bring to campus a man who had compared the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks to Nazis. And there was the incident several years ago when Hamilton hosted Annie Sprinkle, a “post-porn feminist” and “performance artist,” who dazzled students and other members of the Hamilton community with her pornographic videos and demonstration of sex toys. Why not let outsiders pay a cover charge to attend these spectacles of hot-house academic leftism at its mo ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 February 2010, on page 3 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-Hamilton-follies-cont-d--4384
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