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I do recommend the Third Reich in the Ivy League as a generally good read, which highlights the significantly more nazi-sympathetic student body at harvard with
by lofatdairy 4y ago
I do recommend the Third Reich in the Ivy League as a generally good read, which highlights the significantly more nazi-sympathetic student body at harvard with the more activist population at Columbia, largely in part due to the fact that Columbia failed to attract the white elites of NYC and had a larger Jewish population as a result.
>The student athlete I knew, my roommate Tony Tomaska, was the son of a Chicago policeman. He played for the football team. He was working class, not upper class.
Yeah I don't deny that a lot of athletes are from disadvantageous backgrounds, I was only to highlight that the sports we associate w/ that fact do not make up a lot of other sports in the ivy league, and that if your goal diversity, you should just increase admissions of disadvantaged students, not use athletics as a proxy.
- pinewurst 4y agoFYI it’s “The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower”
- fsckboy 4y agothere may be something good in the book(?) but talk about a title that makes the author sound unhinged how about "vestiges of old fashioned bias remain in the ivory tower" or something
- Dylan16807 4y agoIt wasn't "vestiges" for there to be support for the third reich while it was gaining power. I could see your point if the book wasn't talking about the 30s, but it was talking about the 30s.
- lofatdairy 4y agoAh, that's right, apologies, I should have double checked the title before replying.
- pyuser583 4y agoI’m familiar with some very creepy attitudes the local land grant college had toward Nazi Germany. Was this an Ivy League thing or a higher ed thing? Much of the early 20th century was spent building US higher education around the German model.