VIRGINIA TECH BACKS DOWN. The professions of fealty to the Diversity Boondoggle are now optional, not mandatory, at Virginia Tech. John Leo notes, "A search of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) turned up no protest of the coercive Virginia Tech plan." Of course not, because fealty to progressive intolerance is an article of faith among the vicars of vacillation. Discriminations quips, "Still, voluntary diversifying (if doing something for which you will be rewarded counts as voluntary) is much better than mandatory diversifying, and F.I.R.E. and NAS deserve much credit."

Quite so. My offer of Sprecher Mai Bock remains open, as I suspect the list of approved getting-to-know-groups-different-from-you is the usual crabbed list from the usual crabs.