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… beyond eastrod: Connections: On campus and around the world . . . things are falling apart . . . the center will not hold . . . and the nightmare begins.

At the southern American university where I taught for fifteen years, I am embarrassed to report that English majors no longer are required to study Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton; the new breed of English majors instead may take courses like "African American Women Authors" and "Writers from Beyond the Margins" and "Creative Nonfiction." 

This simply won't do if you don't know Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton, you don't know English literature.