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<p>One of the few things I remember from my Introduction To American Politics (GOV 101,102) course some forty five years ago with Prof. James Murphy, is that people who switch party identification have the weakest level of allegiance to either party - or “team”, if you will - neither the one they left nor the one they left behind. I think this explains your constant oscillation between Bowdoin’s golden retriever s (your metaphor, not mine), and Wesleyan’s mongrel student body. You present your arguments as an attack on Wesleyan’s stewardship, but, what I really think is going on here is just good old-fashioned, “the grass is always greener” syndrome. I think the cure for that is to just stop paying attention to the rankings. You. Can. Do. It. (sorry, couldn’t resist the John Wesley reference.) </p>