<p>dave72 - But it is the Oberlin Review! Certainly I can trust the esteemed editors of the newspaper of record for that august body of scholars? </p>
<p>Have to admit I find it hard to extract your benign interpretation of the students question from the newspaper report. But then I wasn’t there. Still the question I have is why would such a question even come up in an intellectually diverse community of scholars? If your first impulse is to scream, “Stupid!” at someone whose ideas you disagree with you obciously are not used to operating in an environment where you think ideas need to be defended - the point of my comment about “liberal and progressive” institutions like Oberlin.</p>