“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

Beet, a searing and humorous indictment of American higher education, follows the decline of a fictitious, New England liberal arts school. Marked by tradition, attended by the elite and paid for by the prestigious, Beet College is in trouble. The entirety of its endowment has been squandered and no one knows how to save the venerable institution. Though the Board of Trustees seems ready to sell anything not stapled to the ground, they hatch a "plan" to save the school by reforming its curriculum. Maybe it would have worked at Antioch, the well-known liberal arts college that shut its doors last year after ushering in the era of 1990s political correctness by adding the phrase "may I proceed to the level of intimacy?" to the national discussion.

Forbes
May 1 2008