<p>Two professors started this after a student at Penn got into trouble for calling a group of noisy young women “water buffalo.” There was a big ruckus, and Alan Kors defended the student with help from his college friend who had become a law school professor elsewhere. He also took leadership when Penn subsequently rewrote its speech code (maybe why Penn has a green light now).</p>
<p>Alan teaches history at Penn and has for about 40 years. I took several classes with him and found him to be a terrific teacher who always was fair.</p>
<p>Certainly there is room in the world for a ranking system like this. How useful it is to a student picking a college, though, is unclear.</p>