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.. “No one disputed the ideological bias in the book choices, but no one seemed bothered, either.

Progressivism’s virtue seemed beyond debate, as I learned when I tried discussing it with people at the conference.

I asked if they’d ever considered addressing racial issues by choosing nonprogressive black authors like Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, or Jason Riley.

I was met with occasional hostility—“Why would we promote the conservative policies that put minorities at a disadvantage?”—

but the main response was puzzlement. They looked at me blankly: Who?” ..

MaxPC wrote:Very sad. It reminds me of the methods used by totalitarian regimes to control the thinking of the populace. It always fails eventually and never has a permanent effect thanks be to God.

In 1970, after campus antiwar protesters ransacked and set fire to the administration building at the University of South Carolina, the school’s president appointed a task force to find a solution to student unrest.

Many meetings, workshops, and encounter groups later, the university came up with an answer, and it was nothing so simple as expelling vandals and arsonists.
No, the key was to teach students to “love their university,” starting with a new semester-long orientation course for freshmen.

An industry was born.
John Gardner, an assistant professor of history and a social activist, made the course into an institution.

He called it the Freshman-Year Experience, until he decided that the name was sexist and renamed it the First-Year Experience, now known commonly as FYE.

He and his disciples promoted it so diligently that it has spread to 90 percent of American colleges and is rapidly growing overseas. .. ..