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Grove City College rounds the Cape of Good Hope, July 12th, 23, Introduction.

Many of you are aware of a controversy last year that revolved around whether or not

Grove City College was going woke or not.

After the controversy broke, I commented it on it a few times here and here.

If you need a refresher, there you go.

As some time has gone by, I thought I should give you an update.

And as these things go, I think we should call it good news.

Actually, I think we should call it good news and a challenge.

Two distinct problems.

Once the controversy became an official controversy, the Board of Grove City appointed a committee

to look into it and the committee issued a marvelous report.

That report acknowledged the problems, the nature of the problems, and correctly identified

where the problems were.

It seemed initially that all the concerns of the petitioners were going to be met.

But the taste of controversy still lingered in the mouths of many outsiders, because this

marvelous report was not followed by, as one observer put it, quote unquote, executions

in the quad.

In other words, nobody was sacked.

What were the options that might explain this?

One was that the Board did not have real control of the admin, who were going to obstruct

and slow walk everything, such that the wokeery would continue on, maybe at a slower pace.

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