The pictures said it all: a dumpster overloaded with books, many from the now-abolished Gender and Diversity Center. Perhaps it was a routine “weeding” of library collections, as one college spokesperson claimed, but the visuals confirmed what New College had already become—a money-grubbing monument to intolerance and censorship on a campus that had once been a bastion of academic freedom.
—David Warner
This article appears in Best of The Bay 2024.
