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Professor Buzzkill

Rufus F. November 12, 2010

You think I’m a curmudgeon? Writing about “party schools” and their legacy students, Margaret Soltan ups the ante for scathing, funny critiques of our “Alexandrian culture”. Bless her soul.

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