I have a deep well of affection for my alma mater, the College of the Holy Cross. I met my wife there, we sent our older daughter there, and I made the most lasting friendships of my life there. I have never missed a reunion, and was back last weekend for my 30th. It’s not just the power of community of Holy Cross alumni and students: I continue to believe that there is an important role for the college to play in American life as the nation’s preeminent small Catholic liberal-arts college, with a historic mission of educating the next generation of Catholics in the faith and sending them forth to carry it into the world. It shouldn’t be just another link in an archipelago of secular colleges with identical student bodies and philosophies.
But all has not been well on Mt. St. James in recent years. The college’s new president, Vincent Rougeau, made a particularly bad decision in writing an op-ed in the Boston Globe a few weeks ago entitled “Clarence Thomas was a beneficiary of race-based admissions at my school”:
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