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issue 5 Spring 2008 CRACK HEADS Brought to you by American Academia Indoctrination 101 $6.99US $8.99CAN Frat-ricidal Tendencies Curriculum Mortae The (Not So) Brights *State of the U Ten Corrosive Colleges Where Learning and Promiscuity Hook Up! esides an education, what do you want out of your college experience? We’re betting it’s sex—and lots of it! That’s why at Kinsey College Bwe offer a full range of dormitory options that will make it easier than ever to debauch—right here on the premises and regardless of your sexual orientation. RuPaul Hall Let’s say you’re a male student who self-identifi es as a female. Rather than the standard coed dorm, what you need is ready access to male students who are prepared to get it on with transsexual men. Well, at RuPaul Hall, that’s precisely what you’ll fi nd: a hotbed of perverse promiscuity tailor-made for the cross-dressing set. 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We ask David Horowitz by Marcia Segelstein QUAD PRO QUO 63 “Here’s your money,” say today’s college students, “Now give us our degrees!” by Marcia Segelstein Random Flak 20 CURRICULUM MORTAE Special Forces Sometimes indoctrination is a matter of life and death 17 FRIENDLY FIRE with Regis Nicoll by Karen Swallow Prior Sci-fi Apologetics Who’s really brighter: the naturalist or the supernaturalist? 38 STANDARD DEVIATION Why we should diverge from college 36 DEPROGRAM with Denyse O’Leary credentialism The Truth Hurts Following the evidence to by Doug Large career oblivion 54 THE FRAT TRAP 43 SEMPER SCI with Hugh Ross They insist that they’re harmless, but are Put ‘Em to the Test Toward resolving the conflict fraternities telling the truth? by Bobby Maddex between naturalism and intelligent design 52 FOREIGN INTEL with Michael Cook Weighty Problems There’s a limit to the number Standard Ops of issues we can panic over 03 OPENING SALVO 59 INTERROGATE with Greg Koukl 04 ON THE RADAR Crimes of the Heart Should it be illegal to hate? 04 INCOMING 68 R & R with Barbara Nicolosi 05 HIRED GUNS Oscar Redux What the 2008 Academy Awards 07 SHRAPNEL reveal about the culture Featured: Declining by Degrees (or the Loss Thereof) COUNTER INTELLIGENCE with S. 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In putting together this issue of Salvo, I have come to realize that my story is not at all unique. There are countless former students out there who are in school-loan debt up to their ears for having “earned” degrees in drivel. Unfortunately can now say without reser- had to do with Julian of Norwich, St. for many of them, they have yet to vation that I regret going Bonaventure, or The Cloud of Un- realize or acknowledge this as I have to graduate school. Having knowing I still don’t know. And then and thus find themselves still victim- enjoyed a quite solid and sub- in my classes on eighteenth-century ized by the bad ideas that attended stantial education at the un- poetry—my chosen emphasis—I their educations. Indeed, the leftist dergraduate level, I expected learned that what Alexander Pope, ideologues who inhabit American Ithe same of my terminal master’s pro- John Dryden, Bernard Mandeville, colleges and universities are intent gram in British literature.