Out of Their Worlds

By ELIZABETH J. CHIN

When I arrived at Duke University in January to begin a stint as a visiting professor in the cultural-anthropology department, the lacrosse-team scandal was still a few months in the future. But I was already well aware of the fact that the college classroom has become increasingly politicized.

A month before I got to Duke, the Young America's Foundation had issued its annual "dirty dozen" list, which identifies the nation's 12 most "bizarre and troubling instances of leftist activism