It's a College About Nothing! The Seinfeld Curriculum

Deans Kramer and Costanza with Faculty

From a once great liberals arts institution, famous for some admirable 19th Century Graduates including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and General and Gov. Joshua Chamberlain (also a Bowdoin professor). However, amongst Bowdoin's 20th Century alumni are some more infamous and nefarious who include Alfred Kinsey (sex fiction writer), Senators Owen Brewster and George J. Mitchell and music 'artist' DJ Spooky. 

Bowdoin's Academics today are as Carbon Neutral as they claim its campus buildings to be. Its Education Standards are About Nothing, Garbage in, Nothing Out. Students might just as well see Deans Kramer and Costanza. m/r

David Feith: The Golf Shot Heard Round the Academic World - WSJ.com
April 5, 2013,

The tale of a teed-off philanthropist and the head of Bowdoin College, where identity politics runs wild.

... two men spoke about college life—especially "diversity"—and the conversation made such an impression on President Mills that he cited it weeks later in his convocation address to Bowdoin's freshman class. That's 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's 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," said the other golfer, in Mr. Mills's telling. During Mr. Mills's next swing, he recalled, the man blasted Bowdoin's "misplaced and misguided diversity efforts." At the end of the round, the college president told the students, "I walked off the course in despair."

Word of the speech soon got to Mr. Klingenstein. Even though he hadn't been named in the Mills account, Mr. Klingenstein took to the pages of the Claremont Review of Books to call it nonsense: "He didn't 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."

The real story, wrote Mr. Klingenstein, was that "I explained my disapproval of 'diversity' as it generally has been implemented on college campuses: too much celebration of racial and ethnic difference," coupled with "not enough celebration of our common American identity."

For this, wrote Mr. Klingenstein, Bowdoin's president insinuated that he was a racist. 

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