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January 18th, 2009

From Animal House to the Academy

The moment I opened the front cover of From Animal House to the Academy, I knew I was about to fall in love. Jeffrey Langan’s new book opens with a quote from Pascal’s Pensees, one of my all-time favorite philosophical works and the best argument I have ever seen for an existence that extends beyond what we can see, touch, or hear. Professor Langan’s book is brilliant in that it argues that colleges should not just be concerned with educating students for successful life in the workforce while giving them the cliched “college experience” that so many use to “find themselves.” Instead, Jeff argues that colleges need to also concern themselves with the souls of their students, enabling them to see a more complete truth than they ever could have imagined.

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By Michael Reer