Roger,
It looks as if a key debate, that between Brown’s central American history department and various students’ unions, needs to take place, but has been conveniently side-stepped by radical student factions.

Most institutions of learning fear such blatant expose’s of their students’ ignorance about key, historical facts. I think that, leaving her vocal, raucous student unions’ desires off to the side for the moment, Brown University is no different.

It’s just that the education that such a didactic debate would award to the rampaging students is conveniently avoided by the university’s solicitousness to racialist student unions, making Brown into a microcosm of America’s dumbed-down, adolescent political sphere.

Either Brown’s historians need to grow a pair and begin to stand up for their curriculum of facts, (like, say, by calling out student leaders for their ignorance), or, the university should look to GM’s or United Airlines’ models and let the student’s mold the institution into a dumb, political-advocacy arm of the Democrat(ic) Party.

At best, if they choose the latter, they’ll get a tax-payer funded bail-out for their abandonment of empiricism. At worst, if they choose the first, their students will learn something about early American history.