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Another religiously affiliated university trying to be diplomatic may be in danger of becoming Catholic in Name Only (CINO).

Among college English professors, the passing on of literary traditions and literacy has gone from avocation to afterthought to alien concept, as can be seen in the annual conventions of the Modern Language Association.

In their unguarded moments, college professors say the darndest things.

The Modern Language Association, which represents thousands of College English professors nationwide, is actually trying to understand religion in American life.

Philadelphia is not just a place where Broadway shows go on out of town tryouts. When the Modern Language Association meets there, Ph.D. candidates test their theses there too.

The often-esoteric Modern Language Association is commemorating a conflict too rapidly fading from collective memory—World War II— but the eclectic amalgamation of thousands of college and high school English professors is doing so in a manner that obscures key facts about the war, namely, what was at stake.

If you thought that the Modern Language Association was a highly politicized group whose real activities belied its innocuous-sounding name, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Environmentally conscious undergrads beware: some of the same people warning of the dangers of global warming now were predicting an ice age back in the 1970s.

Outside of Hollywood, there can be no greater holdout from the Republican message than the Ivory Tower, yet the information trickling out of surveys and studies shows that it did not come up short in the controversial practice of earmarking federal funds that the congressional elephants became associated with.

Tomorrow’s military leaders do not necessarily face a cakewalk through college.

Most schools spend more time on the politics of identity than do transgendered transvestites.

You would think that a policy that both liberals and conservatives find abhorrent would cease to exist.