SAVING ANTIOCH COLLEGE
Correspondence SAVING ANTIOCH COLLEGE AS AN ALUMNUS of Antioch College, I feel that Charlotte Allen’s article on my alma mater (“Death by Political Correctness,” November 12) mingled many...
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...Correspondence SAVING ANTIOCH COLLEGE AS AN ALUMNUS of Antioch College, I feel that Charlotte Allen’s article on my alma mater (“Death by Political Correctness,” November 12) mingled many elements of truth and sharp appraisal of the personalities and events that led to Antioch’s decline with ideological gloating over missteps and irrelevancies of an institution that has become a favored punching bag for conservatives harping on the alleged failures of liberalism...
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Vol. 13 • November 2007 • No. 10
