This is both interesting and sadly accurate:
Whether your own college experience was more like The Paper Chase or Animal House, you can be sure that today’s campuses are neither. Instead, your tuition and tax dollars are funding an ever-growing army of bureaucrats that police everything from free speech to dating. Administrators now outnumber faculty on our nation’s campuses, and even students’ innermost thoughts are subject to their oversight. Each year, the college experience gets closer to that of a TSA line at the airport — but one that you have to live in for four years.
via College speech codes | FIRE | A warning to college parents and grandparents | The Daily Caller.
Free Love for Sale, my recently-released novel, is set in the spring of 1997, a time when the policies now in effect at most college campuses were just starting to blossom. Although the book is, in its own way, a send-up of and reaction to these policies, those willing to get past the muck of rutting that covers the book’s pages will note that much of what takes place in it could no longer happen on a college campus, especially a liberal arts one like the fictional Foster College at which it’s set.
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