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RUSH: From the Wall Street Journal last Friday, April 5th. I missed it Friday. I was informed about this on Saturday afternoon. It\u2019s a piece by David Feith. David Feith is assistant editorial features editor at the Wall Street Journal. “It sounds like the setup for a bad joke: What did the Wall Street type say to the college president on the golf course? Well, we don\u2019t know exactly — but it has launched a saga with weighty implications for American intellectual and civic life. Here\u2019s what we do know:<\/p>\n

“One day in the summer of 2010, Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College, a respected liberal-arts school in Brunswick, Maine, met investor and philanthropist Thomas Klingenstein for a round of golf about an hour north of campus. College presidents spend many of their waking hours talking to potential donors. In this case, the two men spoke about college life — especially ‘diversity\u2019 — and the conversation made such an impression on President Mills that he cited it weeks later in his convocation address to Bowdoin\u2019s freshman class.<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s where the dispute begins. In his address, President Mills described the golf outing and said he had been interrupted in the middle of a swing by a fellow golfer\u2019s announcement: ‘I would never support Bowdoin — you are a ridiculous liberal school that brings all the wrong students to campus for all the wrong reasons,\u2019 said the other golfer, in Mr. Mills\u2019s telling. During Mr. Mills\u2019s next swing, he recalled, the man blasted Bowdoin\u2019s ‘misplaced and misguided diversity efforts.\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n

“At the end of the round, the college president told the students, ‘I walked off the course in despair.'” So the college president tells the guy this. He\u2019s out playing golf and in the middle of his backswing — which is the biggest no-no in golf, is to chat during somebody\u2019s swing. In the middle of the backswing, he says something, and this guy\u2019s college was insulted twice by this Klingenstein guy, who was the potential donor. “Word of the speech,” this interpretation, “soon got back to Mr. Klingenstein.<\/p>\n

“Even though he hadn\u2019t been named in the Mills account, Mr. Klingenstein took to the pages of the Claremont Review of Books to call it nonsense: ‘[The president of this college] didn\u2019t like my views, so he turned me into a backswing interrupting, Bowdoin-hating boor who wants to return to the segregated days of Jim Crow.\u2019 The real story, wrote Mr. Klingenstein, was that ‘I explained my disapproval of ‘diversity\u2019 as it generally has been implemented on college campuses: too much celebration of racial and ethnic difference,\u2019 coupled with ‘not enough celebration of our common American identity.'”<\/p>\n

You guys are destroying the country. We all have a “common American identity” and you\u2019re focusing on our differences and then demanding all this “diversity” be tolerated, accepted, and treated the same. Well, after Klingenstein\u2019s “essay appeared, President Mills stood by his version of events. A few months later, Mr. Klingenstein decided to do something surprising: He commissioned researchers to examine Bowdoin\u2019s commitment to intellectual diversity, rigorous academics and civic identity.”<\/p>\n

So he paid for researchers for the National Association of Scholars to study this university and its curriculum and what\u2019s been going on there, and the upshot of it is: Bowdoin College “has ‘no curricular requirements that center on the American founding or the history of the nation.\u2019 Even history majors aren\u2019t required to take a single course in American history. In the History Department, no course is devoted to American political, military, diplomatic or intellectual history — the only ones available are organized around some aspect of race, class, gender or sexuality.”<\/p>\n

So a history major at Bowdoin College is taught about the intrinsic discrimination against blacks, women, gays, lesbians, transgender, bisexuals. That\u2019s all they are taught. A history major coming out of Bowdoin College is not taught for one minute about the American founding. There is not one moment of traditional American history taught, and this is just the history department. What\u2019s taught is how immoral and unjust America has been since its founding and how its founding featured institutional racism, segregation, sexism, homophobia, and all that.<\/p>\n

Klingenstein found this kind of thing in pretty much all the other departments he looked at, and he studied it for years and years and years.<\/p>\n

Quite naturally, he decided not to donate to the school.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, the students at Bowdoin College are required to take a year-long seminar as freshmen. They get to choose from 37 different offerings, such as “Affirmative Action in US Society,” or “the Fictions of Freedom,” or “Racism,” or “Queer Gardens,” or “the Sexual Life of Colonialism,” or “the Modern Western Prostitutes.” They have to take one of those courses, as a seminar, but they\u2019re not taught anything about the American founding other than it was racist and immoral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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