Interesting bit of news made it into Jerusalem Post. Dartmouth College, a venerable bastion of the left-wing politics so prevalent in all elite "liberal arts" universities in the US and the grantor of a BA to your humble servant, has waded deeper still into the liberal malaise. The Interfraternity Council, representing all the fraternities on campus, blocked the Jewish fraternity of Alpha Epsilon Pi from being officially recognized at the college. This in spite of the fact that Dartmouth has official Black and Hispanic fraternities, as well as several other fraternities that have a very distinct ethnic character. An example is Kappa Kappa Kappa (no, it's not the KKK), which is almost entirely Asian. Another example is Psi Upsilon, which is pure WASP. So much so, that a few years ago, when they accepted a black guy, they gave him the nickname "Quota." Not to point out the fact that he was fulfilling the African-American quota, but more to make light of the fact that there was no quota and hence no blacks in the fraternity. And he was the most preppy, WASP-ified black guy you've ever met. My point is that Dartmouth has at least dozen organizations that draw their membership, officially or unofficially, from narrow sectors of the student population.

The Interfraternity Council gave a few reasons for their decision, but the most telling one is that the other fraternities didn't feel comfortable with a new organization that was "eighty to ninety percent homogenous." Never mind the fact that such semi-exclusive organizations already exist, and have been functioning at Dartmouth for decades without so much as a peep. This is all pointing to the general anti-semitic undercurrent in the liberalism of today. The fact that it is being displayed for the world to see by a school I went to, a school that contributes to the business and intellectual elite of the US, a school that thousands of the brainiest high school graduates aspire to gain admission to, saddens me deeply. It's just another sign of the cultural trends in the US, and not an insignificant one.

Downplay it if you want, I have nothing more to say on this topic.