With the recent ignominious implosion of the community-organizing behemoth ACORN, it is of interest, although not surprising, to read Bethany Stotts’s review of how Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, in its Human Science program, trains the nation’s legions of leftist community activists.

Forget even the common, gross misuse of (emphases henceforth mine) interdisciplinary studies. Saybrook, according to the campus website, quixotically invites students to design their own “unique transdisciplinary plan to focus on individual academic and professional goals.”

A small sampling of this Saybrook curriculum, in addition to its race-this and gender-that offerings, includes studies in ”altered states of consciousness . . . social change among indigenous peoples . . . [and] the way in which religious and therapeutic values impact health care; and physician and patient spirituality.”

Saybrook also conflates the Native American Medicine Circle with social change, for example, in guiding students to transform society by developing “familiarity with philosophies and practices of nonviolence, Aikido, and the Native American Medicine Circle” and ”experience with deep ecology perspectives.”

Given Saybrook’s indoctrinating and jejeune offerings, the title of Stotts’s piece, “Can You Say Brook[en],” is especially fitting.