Oh yeah, baby. This place has recovered from some major trauma. It's been a vaguely Christian, inoffensively Presbyterian place since 1878, but in the 1980s the head was of the fiery evangelical sort, as was a small but vocal part of the parent body. So strides that should have been made, weren't. In those days, all faculty hired had to get down on their knees and pray with the head; it was very much a loyalty oath kind of place. Needless to say, Jewish faculty were personae non gratae. So in 1991 Harvard and Yale got together and their deans called up our head and said, hey, ya know that crop of twenty or so kids you send us every year? Yeah, fuhgeddaboutit.
After that, the diversity thing worked out quite well. And that head is long gone, replaced by a gently dotty Episcopal priest. We have Jews (actual Jews!) now, and then of course there's me, more Jewish by the day.
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Date: 2008-02-21 10:55 am (UTC)After that, the diversity thing worked out quite well. And that head is long gone, replaced by a gently dotty Episcopal priest. We have Jews (actual Jews!) now, and then of course there's me, more Jewish by the day.