None taken, Vin. In a way you're spot-on. I went to Fordham from '77-'81. Now Fordham is Jesuit run and the Jesuits are pretty liberal, as far as Catholic Orders go. But it was nothing like Columbia or Berkeley. Places like that won't let you graduate today unless you have contempt for your country .

But I'm not completely detached from today's college scene. My older daughter graduated from the University of Miami a few years ago; my younger daughter will graduate from Penn State after the fall semester; and my son begins SUNY Stony Brook in a couple of weeks. But my daughters made it through without taking up with the Taliban, so I'm pretty hopeful for my son .