> Years ago I dated a person who was enrolled at the very similar Goddard
> in Vermont, so I spent a lotta time up there. Blech! Goddard eventually
> closed, and I don't see it as the biggest tragedy for the left that future
> hippy kids will have to major in bong ideology elsewhere.
Did you even bother to read my post? I'm an Antioch alum. Believe me, trust fund hippies, rentier brats, and flower power types were a tiny fraction of the student population. Lots of interesting people were there from all walks of life, and they actually got quite a good education (small class sizes, committed teachers). The co-op program was interesting, too -- you spent half your time off-campus, doing internships and jobs in that Real World you take such pains to identify with. I worked on assembly lines, for human rights organizations, as a union colonizer, etc. It was one of the few institutions in the country with such a program. And now it's gone.
Laughing at Antioch's demise is about as funny as laughing at the impending gutting of the UAW.
-- DRR