Not really the point of the article, but I want to address this: >The only bright spot is linguistics, the rare field that directly bridges the humanities and

Not really the point of the article, but I want to address this: >The only bright spot is linguistics, the rare field that directly bridges the humanities and the sciences directly. In my experience, the fact that linguistics is a humanity is just a historical quirk, and the fact that it does not pattern with the other humanities just shows that students are not blindly following the collages org. charts. When I was in college, I added a linguistics minor because I wanted to have a science in addition to my math and computer science majors. I (and most of my class) was surprised when we learned that the linguistics was part of the College of Arts and Humanities. The linguistics classes I took in college were the clearest examples of what science looks like that I have had in my academic career.