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Movie Showing Elites Hunting Down Trump Supporters Slated to Hit Theaters in September 2019

Even Hollywood is promoting the sort of anti-white hate we saw directed against white representatives at the Williams College Council meeting of April 9, 2019. Right now, Universal Pictures is promoting a new film in which liberal elites stalk and kill Trump supporters.

“The Hunt” shows people hunting down “deplorables.”

“Did anyone see what our [expletive]-in-chief just did?” one character asks, reported the Hollywood Reporter. “At least The Hunt’s coming up. Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables.”

According to the Reporter, the movie’s script features blue-state characters hunting down red-state characters, characters with pro-life positions or who are labeled racists.

Unfortunately, Williams College has been a national leader in teaching anti-white propaganda. It has contributed to the efforts to turn innocent white kids in to villains who deserve to be mistreated and humiliated. Hopefully, in this next semester there will be more people on campus seeking to defend whites against abuse.

I just found out this morning, August 10, that Universal Pictures has cancelled the release of this film. It was originally called "Red State, Blue State".

'The Hunt' canceled by Universal following significant backlash

According to president Donald Trump, "What they’re doing, with the kind of movie they’re putting out, it’s actually very dangerous for our country. What Hollywood is doing is a tremendous disservice to our country.” Thankfully, it looks like someone in Hollywood has come to their senses.

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia and WND.

No Whites Allowed: Williams College Promotes Discriminatory Conference on Technology

As one of the white scholars harmed by affirmative action in the 1980s it really ticks me off to see Williams College promoting anti-white discrimination three decades later. The real institutional discrimination in our society is directed at young whites...not minorities. Here's an example of what I consider pure evil. If the link breaks down...here's a screenshot.

In this example, Williams College is hosting a symposium on "New Voices in Science & Technology Studies" which specifically discriminates against whites. This is the sort of symposium which looks good on someone's CV. The school will be providing a $500.00 honorarium and providing room and board for all the presenters.

As a matter of equity, there really should be a whites only symposium focused on institutionalized discrimination against young white men in technology. For example, what about a paper on the mistreatment of whites at Google?

If you have questions about why whites are facing racial discrimination, then you really ought to send an e-mail to the following address: laura.ephraim@williamscollege.

Check Out Steve Miller's Math Riddles

As you may know, Steven Miller is a math professor at Williams College. I just learned that he maintains a special website devoted to math riddles. It looks like fun. Check it out by clicking on this link. By the way, you can click on the picture to enlarge it.

Miller received a BS in mathematics and physics from Yale in 1996 and then earned a PhD in mathematics from Princeton in 2002. He is probably the smartest person on the faculty. 

Prior to coming to Williams, Professor Miller taught at Princeton, New York University, (The) Ohio State University, and Brown. His wife, Liz, is a professor of Marketing at Boston College, and the couple has two young children, Cameron and Kayla. Professor Miller’s hobbies, aside from math, include tennis, sailing, reading (primarily historical fiction, politics, and science fiction), Boston sports teams, bridge, and twistie art. For more about Professor Miller, visit his website.

Not So Fast with the Sainthood: The Unseemly Side of Williams College Ex-President Francis Oakley

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - Nicholas Clifford has a glowing, overly sentimental, even saccharine report on Francis Oakley's From the Cast Iron Shore: In Lifelong Pursuit of Liberal Learning, University of Notre Dame Press, 2019.You can read Clifford's article, "The Little Ivies’ Aggiornamenti" over at the Commonweal website.

The gist of the article is  Clifford feels such fondness and affinity to Francis Oakley that he sees a certain synchronicity that aligns his life with Oakley's. Both of them, for example, once rescued horses.

Finally, on a lighter note—that of odd coincidences—is a little domestic tale about the Oakley family horse, whose screams one night brought the whole family out to untangle the poor animal from some webbing that was entrapping her. I can’t help wondering if that was about the same time when, a hundred miles north of Williamstown, screams from our own family horse brought out me and my wife and our four pajama-clad girls, they holding flashlights while I managed somehow to cut away the bits of wire fence that had caught up Irish Maid’s right hind leg. This was one of many coincidences in this book that sometimes made me feel as if I had encountered not just a kindred spirit but a parallel life.

Nevertheless, Clifford does do us a service by recounting how Oakley, a Catholic, critiqued the doctrine of papal absolutism as ahistorical as part of a larger liberal attack on the Catholic Church. Simultaneously, in his scholarship, Oakley helped lead changes at Williams College which were designed to update the institution. This is the aggriornamenti described in the title of the article. Aggriornamenti is simply a Latin term for bringing something up-to-date.

Over Oakley's time at Williams College, Clifford reports that "Oakley watched the 'old Williams' (as he calls it), with its WASPy ways and fraternity traditions, giving way to new concerns brought on by the civil-rights movement, the Vietnam war, and the rise of student protests."

Before we turn Francis Oakley into an icon of academic enlightenment, however, we might spend a moment or two remembering the people he harmed along the way. In particular, we might want to hear from the enemies he created by bringing about affirmative action policies which discriminated against young white male scholars and students.

Oakley was part of a generation of liberals who decided that their academic institutions were too white. As they brainstormed solutions to the "whiteness" problem, it never occurred to them to resign their cushy academic jobs to make room for new, younger minority scholars. Instead, leaders like Oakley decided it was better to force the costs of their policies on to unsuspecting young white male and female graduate students who, after years of hard work and often pitiful poverty, were seeking their first jobs in the academic world. Oakley was among those who were the first to suggest to these white graduate students: "Sorry you're white."

Over the years, Oakley has been indifferent and insensitive to the suffering he caused for the real people he hurt and harmed by promoting and signing off on affirmative action programs at Williams College.

Today, one of Francis Oakley's legacies is that Williams College is filled with a surprising amount of anti-white hate.

One April 9, 2019, for example, the College Council allowed two black activist students to engage in a long, videoed, bigoted anti-white rant against young white students whose only real sin was a desire to follow the rules. As far as I can tell, neither of the black, CARE Now activists were ever punished for their racially motivated verbal abuse of their fellow students.

As future generations look back on the mistreatment of young whites at Williams College, Francis Oakley's contribution to all that anti-white hate will need to be assessed and put into context. I suspect his responsibility for the pain he caused the innocent victims of his aggriornamenti - both in the past and now - will certainly be a factor as we evaluate his application for academic sainthood.

John C. Drew, Ph.D., is a former Williams College professor in American politics and political economy. He contributes to American Thinker, Breitbart, Campus Reform, The College Fix, and WorldNetDaily.

Howard Herman on Michelyne Pinard Women's Soccer Coach Leaving Williams College

Howard Herman has a touching and inspiring article in the Berkshire Eagle discussing the extraordinary record and amazing strategy of Michelyne Pinard, the woman's soccer coach at Williams College.

As he points out: "Of all the great Berkshire County high school and college coaches who have patrolled sidelines or sat in dugouts, Williams College women's soccer coach Michelyne Pinard might be first among equals. After all, when you have lost only 46 games out of 337 played in 17 seasons, and won three — count them — three national championships, you get to be called the best of the best." 

As you may know, Pinard is leaving Williams in October, at the end of the 2019 season. She will be moving out here to California. She will become the athletic director at The Thatcher School, a private, boarding school in Ojai. 

Howard Herman can be reached at hherman@berkshireeagle.com, at @howardherman on Twitter, or 413-496-6253.

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Williams College Warning: Philosophy is Lost!

Over at Powerline, Steve Hayward has a new article discussing the results of recent research demonstrating the considerable hostility of the academic community to conservatives. Here's the gist of his argument below:

Has academic philosophy become as hopelessly politicized as other humanities? That’s a question treated in a forthcoming paper in Philosophical Psychology entitled “Ideological Diversity, Hostility, and Discrimination in Philosophy.” From the abstract:

“We found that survey participants clearly leaned left (75%), while right-leaning individuals (14%) and moderates (11%) were underrepresented. Moreover, and strikingly, across the political spectrum, from very left- leaning individuals and moderates to very right-leaning individuals, participants reported experiencing ideological hostility in the field, occasionally even from those from their own side of the political spectrum. Finally, while about half of the subjects believed that discrimination against left- or right-leaning individuals in the field is not justified, a significant minority displayed an explicit willingness to discriminate against colleagues with the opposite ideology.”

Some of the details from the full article are even worse:

“The more right-leaning the participant, the more hostility they reported personally experiencing from colleagues, and, overall, the more left-leaning the participant, the less hostility they reported personally experiencing.”

“Participants also perceived right-leaning individuals in the field… to experience more hostility than left-leaning subjects.”

“Participants reported that they would be more reluctant to defend their own argument if it led to a right-leaning conclusion… than if it led to a left-leaning one”

“There was no association between ideology and how often participants would be reluctant to defend their argument if it led to a left-leaning conclusion… These findings point toward an apparent stigma held by most participants, regardless of their political ideology, against defending right-leaning conclusions. Considered together with our other results, this reluctance to defend right-leaning conclusions may be the by-product of perceived or actual ideological discrimination within the field. It suggests the presence of ideological ‘self-censorship’”.

I think this is what is otherwise called in different contexts “epistemic closure.” Meanwhile, whenever I point out academic jobs ads that implicitly say “conservatives need not apply,” I am told it is an exaggerated phenomenon, etc. Thus, the finding of this study is significant:

“Significant correlations were found between ideology and the WTD [willingness to discriminate]”

“The more left-leaning the participant, the more frequently a right-leaning perspective/individual would be viewed negatively in assessing grant applications, evaluating papers, inviting colleagues to symposia, and making hiring decisions involving two otherwise equally qualified candidates.

“There was a significant association between ideology and justification of discrimination against right-leaning individuals in the field… The more left-leaning the participant, the more justified they believed discrimination against right-leaning individuals to be. But… there was no significant association between ideology and justification of discrimination against left-leaning individuals.”

PDA for Mayor Pete: Williams College's John McGovern '21 Analyzes Buttigieg Campaign in NH

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - I'm always supportive of student journalists...even those on the left. John McGovern '21 has written a

solid piece about what Mayor Pete is doing behind the scenes to gain positive attention in the crucial primary state of New Hampshire. As McGovern writes:

A newly-elected state representative endorsed by the New Hampshire Young Democrats, Wilhelm met with over half the Democratic presidential field on the phone or one-on-one in person before declaring his support for Buttigieg last month. He first sat down with Buttigieg at a roundtable with other elected officials in an independent bookstore, where the South Bend Mayor and Afghanistan veteran recognized the first-term state legislator's AmeriCorps lapel pin.

Although he said he was always leaning towards Buttigieg, Wilhelm was not planning to endorse until the fall, after the 2019 municipal elections. That changed when Buttigieg released his national service plan, which Wilhelm highlighted in his introduction at the Dover rally. "The candidate with the best national service plan is totally going to get my vote," he said.

Wilhelm also credited the Buttigieg campaign for engaging local leaders. He noted that Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of the South Bend Mayor, canvassed for Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig last weekend. "This campaign is very eager to share the spotlight," he said, adding that other presidential campaigns sometimes "operate in a national context."

In my view, however, Buttigieg doesn't have a chance against his Democrat primary challengers. He is popular with the large donors and with the academic set, but he doesn't seem very popular with actual voters include black voters and Christian voters who don't seem to care for him.

John McGovern's work on NH politics was apparently made possible by a grant from The Robert G. Wilmers, Jr. 1990 Memorial Student Travel Abroad Fellowship. This program supports substantial academic research projects that require foreign travel. Successful projects will present an ambitious intellectual proposal with clear objectives and a defined research methodology. Sophomores and juniors are eligible.

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia and WND.

Will Hardy '10 San Antonio Spurs Asst. Coach, USA Basketball Coach for FIBA 2019 & Tokyo 2020 Olympics

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA – For those of us following Ephs in basketball, this is thrilling news. 

Former Williams College men's basketball player Will Hardy, was recently promoted to Assistant Coach with the NBA's San Antonio Spurs and he has also been named to the USA Basketball 2019 FIBA World Cup staff and USA Basketball's Tokyo 2020 Olympics staff.

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich will serve as the head coach of the USA 2019 FIBA World Cup team and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics USA Basketball team.

Check out the full story by clicking on The Williams College Daily. 

Mr. Right: Williams College Looking for an Interim Catholic Chaplin

I just noticed that Williams College is advertising an open position for an interim Catholic Chaplin. The previous Catholic Chaplin was Fr. Gary Caster who left after 12 years of devoted service. According to the school's estimate, there is a large number of Catholics at Williams College since they say that out of 2,100 students about 1,400 identify as Catholics. I would be curious to know if the loss of Fr. Gary Caster was related at all or in part to the negative reaction that occured when the official Williams College Twitter account called attention to Williams College students participating in a right to life rally.

David Vascones '18, Isabelle Ostertag '18, Zsa Zsa Morel '19, and John DiGravio '21 joined with Eph alums to participate in the 2018 March for Life in Washington, D.C. The trip was organized by the Williams Catholic student group and Catholic Chaplain, Fr. Gary Caster. pic.twitter.com/mEqfimCQUT

— Williams College (@WilliamsCollege) January 24, 2018

Fr. Caster was a great guy. The Williams Record reported on him, saying was "...a Southern California native with training in congregational ministry, Caster has spent the last 26 years working in education. In his first week as a student at the University of Southern California, he visited their Newman Catholic Center. “Nobody said hello to me, nobody reached out to me and I never went back,” he said. Here, Caster tries to do the opposite, and he has an appreciation for the small size of the College. “I like that the students let me know what they need from me and how they need me to be and who they need me to be,” he said.

According to the Record, "Caster enjoys speaking at classes and getting students involved outside of campus. Williams Catholic, the College’s Catholic student group, frequently takes trips, but Caster stressed, “All of our activities are open to everyone. You don’t have to be a Catholic to take a trip with us somewhere.” He also teaches interested students how to fly-fish, and he will pay for any student to go golfing with him.”

Fr. Caster left a final statement on Facebook which read as follows:

Dear friends,

Happy Easter! In the glorious light of this Easter Season I wanted to share with all of you an important decision I have made. For the past twelve years I have had the privilege of serving as Catholic Chaplain at Williams College. I have cherished memories of the young, impressive women and men I have met throughout my time here. I will hold them within the depths of my heart for the rest of my life.

I mention this because I have resigned my position as Catholic Chaplain. After nearly thirty years in education, it's time for me to "graduate college," "move out of the basement" of Thompson Memorial Chapel and "get a job." Therefore, I will be returning to my home Diocese of Peoria, Illinois to begin a new experience of priestly service.

My last official day as Catholic Chaplain will be May 20, but my last Sunday Mass will be May 12 at 4:30 pm, upstairs in Thompson Memorial Chapel, with a reception following. There will be no 8:30 pm Mass that evening.

I can't adequately express my gratitude for everything I have been given these past twelve years, especially for what I have learned. Thank you all so very much for your patience with me and my weaknesses and failures. Please be assured that all those you love and serve will remain in my prayers.

Please pray for me as I begin this new chapter of my life.

Sincerely in the Lord,

Father Caster

Hopefully, he wasn't pushed out by liberal, leftist opponents who disagreed with his take on abortion. As you may know, the department is led by a liberal female, Rev. Valerie Bailey Fischer, who is a member of the Episcopal church which ordains women. Clearly the school has little sensitivity to traditional Christians who would be appalled at this affront. Meanwhile, the Muslim Chaplin, Sharif Rosen, and the Jewish Chaplin, Seth Wax are still employed and fulfilling their functions.

Interestingly enough, Rabbi Wax indicates that little of his job has to actually do with religion. Nevertheless, he advertises that he bring his dog to work, a practice which must drive Imam Rosen crazy given Muslim's traditional prophet inspired disgust with man's best friend.  Arf!

The interim Catholic Chaplin's responsibilities seem broad. They will include but not be limited to:

• Coordinate regular preaching and worship leadership responsibilities in consultation with the Chaplain to the College
• Meet regularly with members of the Williams Catholic Community, especially the student leadership team
• Hold at least two Masses a week (4:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday evening)
• Officiate at weddings and funerals;
• Provide pastoral care for all students regardless of faith tradition;
• Provide sacramental ministry (including confirmation, baptism, confession, reconciliation, Eucharist, anointing of the sick).
• Work with the Chaplain to the College and the Office of Human Resources to develop goals and strategies for the interim period;
• Help student leaders carrying out their tasks;
• Continue to develop and intentionally employ interim specialist skills, including listening, conflict management, healing, reconciliation, and others as appropriate;
• Participate in Interfaith Council activities including meetings, activities, programs, and training.

With an emphasis on supporting student leaders, it looks like the college will be okay with the Catholic Chaplin organizing trips to anti-abortion rallies around the county.

Bernie Sanders: One Comment Away from a Stroke

Bernie Sanders looked so angry tonight I feared for his arteries. He really is the most divisive candidate pitting everyone against the 1% as if that were a wholesome thing to do...or something well worth the apparently unrelenting anger.

It makes me wonder if Bernie is just, temperamentally, an extremely angry person and that politics is just he way of adapting to the needs of his own, violent neural system.

He looked so angry tonight that I feared, as president, he would nuke us. Meanwhile, the other candidates played their cards the best they could. Buttigieg played up his youth. Warren wore red to stress that she is a fighter.

It was fun for me to watch John Delaney get under her skin. At one point it looked like he was making her cry. Hickenlooper, again, impressed me. He stressed his practical experience, but forgot to mention how he'd work to get us all on marijuana. I liked another governor too, Steve Bullock. Unfortunately, he had his chin up to high during his close...it sounded like he was choking or something. All three of them appeared to be gunning for Warren suggesting her ideas were silly, too expensive, impractical, or dead wrong. It was hard for me to find any fault with their critiques.

The best performance of the night, of course, came from Marianne Williamson, who was also gunning for Warren. Trish and I both contributed a dollar to her campaign in the expectation that we would do whatever we could to keep her on the debate stage. She looked great. She made the others look like they weren't really Democrats, that they were too wonky, that they were hypocrites for taking PAC donations.

As she said: "...if you think any of this wonkiness is going to deal with this dark physic force of the collectivized hatred that this president is bringing up in this country then I’m afraid the Democrats are going to see some very dark days." All in all, she struck me as emotionally authentic and definitely not as scary as Warren or Bernie.

Meanwhile, I thought Amy Klobuchar's eye make-up made her look worse and perhaps even shorter. She looks like your angry, fat boss at the school district...not like a presidential candidate.

Among the congressman, I thought Beto O'Rourke continued his slide into immature ignominy. Tim Ryan said the right things, but then harmed his own message by looking oddly frightened. He seemed as if his mom had sent him to the corner for the debate.

All in all, it looks like most of the fire was trained on damaging Warren. It seems everyone has decided that Bernie is done. For me, I'm still supporting Marianne Williamson. Who needs an angry,  wonky commander-in-chief?

Williams College Archives: Racist AMKKK KILL Graffiti Hoax of 2016

I noticed there is still substantial interest in the great AMKKK KILL racist graffiti hoax which rocked Williams College in the wake of Trump's glorious election back in November, 2016.

Williams College students who admitted they wrote KKK graffiti and dumped fake blood in a church to "bring attention to the effects of the presidential election" (lol) https://t.co/b425W8SAyM

— One Walleee (@onewalleee) July 29, 2019

This incident is a favorite among those of us who are weary of the false claims of racism which are now used to justify affirmative action, reparations, and new efforts to ban any criticism at all of POC. Unfortunately, the article in the Williams Record which the tweet attempts to link to is no longer available. I searched and could not find it myself. At any rate, here is a photo of the offending graffiti. The Berkshire Eagle did a report on the event too.

This graffiti was leveraged by the left to suggest that the forces of malevolent racism where active on campus. Alas, it later turned out that the graffiti was the work of two leftist students who thought they were making a statement intended "...to bring attention to the effects of the presidential election on many in our community."

The vandalism committed by these leftist students is evidence of the fact that at Williams College there was a time when the demand for racism exceeded its supply.

Cracks in the Ivory Tower: Perverse Incentives for Leftist Profs

The College Fix has an excellent review of a recent book by Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness titled “Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education.” The book uses an abundance of facts and research to back up the conclusion that much of what we most detest about colleges and universities is due to the perverse financial incentives which inform them.

I particularly enjoyed their succinct discussion of how a woke leftist professor seeks to profit from their contempt for their own institution. Notice how this quote seems to capture much of what is going on right now at Williams College:

Our college/university is systematically racist, heteronormative, classist and sexist. The best way to start down the long road to fixing these problems would be to increase my department’s budget, promote me, let me hire my friends, let me fire my enemies, require that students take my classes, require faculty to push my ideology, make my ideology part of first-year orientation, and give me power over other academic departments. That wouldn’t solve our problems, but it sure would help.

On top of this grab for power and money, the left also seeks to lock in their financial gains by setting up general education classes which students are forced to participate in. These classes ensure that this will always be students in even the most biased, politically correct courses.

All in all, conservative students at Williams College might be wise to study up on Brennan and Magness's book so they will have plenty of intellectual ammunition to put the left in its proper, greedy, self-serving place this fall. If you want more information, check out an interview of the authors at Inside Higher Ed.

Humor for Williams College Conservatives: Learning Your Pronouns in an ESL Class

Peggy Noonan has a new article on her website titled "What Were Robespierre’s Pronouns?" In it, she is drawing connections between the authoritarian left's identity politics and the French Revolution. Both sought to change people by changing language. She refers to the above YouTube video. It is frightening to think this is happening at places like Williams College.

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Williams College - Uma Thurmon to Appear in Ibsen's "Ghosts" at Williamstown Theatre Festival

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - Uma Thurman is hanging out around Williams College this summer. She will appear in the Williamstown Theatre Festival's version of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" between July 31 and August 18. 

Uma Thurman received an Academy Award nomination for her role in "Pulp Fiction" and recently made a Broadway debut in "The Parisian Woman." From the Berkshire Eagle: 

What: "Ghosts" by Henrik Ibsen; translated by Paul Walsh; directed by Carey Perloff
Who: Williamstown Theatre Festival
When: July 31 through Aug. 18
Where: Main Stage, '62 Center for Theatre and Dance, 1000 Main St., Williamstown
Tickets: $75
Reservations/Information: 413-458-3253, wtfestival.org

Warnings for Williams College Conservatives: Prof Finds Lower GPAs Among Conservatives Compared to Liberals

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - Ethan Cai is an intern at Campus Reform who has covered the free speech controversy at Williams College. In a new YouTube video, Ethan interviews Robert Maranto a political scientist from the University of Arkansas on his findings regarding the performance of conservatives at elite colleges and their interest in pursuing graduate degrees.

Basically, he finds that conservatives outperform liberals in high school, but under-perform them in college. 

As Maranto points out the academic world is comfortable with libertarian conservatives, but hostile to social conservatives. There is strong data, he says, of discrimination against evangelical or fundamentalist Chistians in hiring decisions. Maranto indicates he is a Christian, but not a Trump voter. Ironically, he finds that conservatives often hide their political views from their professors, but nevertheless express satisfaction with their college experience. 

Ironically, he see the biggest discrimination against conservatives is in getting their conservative articles published. At elite universities, he says prejudice is much more severe against conservative professors in hiring decisions at elite universities. He believes we have an elite academic world that is out-of-touch. 

Nevertheless, he does suggest finding center-left mentors. Prior to his appointment at UA, Maranto taught at Villanova University and served in the Clinton administration and at the Brookings Institution. The video is worth viewing for campus conservatives who want to make sense of their experience at Williams College. You can Ethan on Twitter at @ethanycai.

Extra Interviews Dylan Barbour '16 of Williams College on All the Luke P. Bachelorette Drama!

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - I just noticed that “Extra” interviewed Dillon Barbour '16 at “The Bachelorette: Men Tell All." He provided his take on the famous Luke P. drama. Check out the video below to get his thoughts on who Hannah Brown should pick.

To our disappointment, Dillon Barbour '16 said he was not interested in being the next bachelor. He is a one-woman guy and wouldn't put up with all the stuff that goes into being the target of multiple female possibilities. 

Jerry Coyne: Williams College Indoctrinates Its Students

CHICAGO, IL - Over at Jerry Coyne's website, Why Evolution is True, we can read an erudite evaluation of the degree to which Williams College has ceased functioning as a liberal arts college and instead become something of a brainwashing facility. In this instance, Coyne tears into the school's absurdly biased insistence that students fulfill a requirement by taking at least one course concentrating on “Difference, Power, and Equity.” There is a pdf of the DPE courses here.

Coyne remarks: "Granted, this is only one requirement, and to fulfill it students need take only a single course. But those courses are almost all about oppression narratives, and all would appeal to the Authoritarian Left. To my mind, they’re intended, as is the requirement, not to convey knowledge or to get students to question things critically—I haven’t found a single course that takes a conservative point of view—but to inculcate students with an Authoritarian Leftist attitude in order to get the students to become agents of change. That means agents who will enact the social changes that their professors and administrators want. In other words, puppets of social change."

The irony is that Coyne is a liberal. He thinking that he is probably in agreement with what Williams College administrator want to see for the future. Nevertheless, he asks: "...should a college curriculum be designed to make the students behave in ways the administration wants them to behave?"

Previously, Coyne criticized efforts by the student activists in CARE Now who sought to prevent the adoption of the Chicago Principles at Williams College.