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...building to a peak. Liberals and conservatives alike have suddenly joined forces to ridicule the excesses of left-wing policies and posturing in academia. It is almost as if, having exorcised the legacy of Vietnam in foreign policy, Americans are now mounting a mopping-up operation against that last bastion of 1960s-style thought, colleges and universities...
Skull and Bones, Yale University's elite secret society, is no longer the bastion of WASP privilege it was when George Bush was a member. Today the club is diverse enough to include black, Hispanic and openly gay members -- but no women. So this year's 15 outgoing "Bonesmen," concerned that the society was seen as an anachronism in an undergraduate body that is 45% female, voted in early April to admit seven women to next year's club...
...being told all the time that Harvard is a bastion of independence when a lot of the decisions here [at the Kennedy School] are being tailored by the Pentagon," he said...
Since Kinsley's brief flirtation with its halls, Eliot has remained the last bastion of the blue-blooded Harvard of the past. Heimert and the preppy jocks have reigned supreme...
HARVARD, declares the conservative flyer, "is controlled by a bastion of faculty and students determined to use our university's considerable resources to forward a narrow, self-seeking leftist political agenda...