<p>I thought it represented a dumb, solipsistic viewpoint that bore no resemblance to any real life college experience in my generation, my children’s generation, or anyone in between. He’s (as I understand it) in his 30s, and he never saw a foreign film before college? Give me a break! (That’s not a substantive objection, just an indication of how atypical the experience he generalized must have been.)</p>
<p>My daughter knows most of the students quoted in the article. Her comments about them shouldn’t be repeated, because they are potentially libellous, but suffice it to say she thinks they are a specific clique, and hardly representative of the student community at Chicago.</p>