BOWDLERIZING Joanne Jacobs and Highered Intelligence are having fun with the latest attempts to make reading materials accessible and inclusive. Highered Intelligence is not pleased with the scrubbing out of references that might be unfamiliar, such as "farm silo" to urban students (not to mention those y***** competing (or is that also proscribed) in r*******.) Nothing new with that development. Some years ago, a colleague who shall remain nameless wrote an Act of Contrition in the now-discontinued Faculty Bulletin. What was his sin? Upon attending a Multicultural Transformation training session, he discovered that a problem asking engineering students to design a taco production line put students new to these shores at a disadvantage. Hallelujah! If we only teach those things that students are already familiar with, all will have won, and all will be given prizes. The money quote goes to Joanne Jacobs, quoting the New York Times: "Mentions of cakes, candy, doughnuts, french fries and coffee should be dropped in favor of references to more healthful foods like cooked beans, yogurt and enriched whole-grain breads." Erm, isn't that offensive, celebrating hippie food?