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THE COLLEGE LEFT DOUBLES DOWN – AT 11:53 A.M. ET:   Barnard College, the women's college of Columbia University, is looking for a new president.  And what are the main qualifications, according to a number of its students?  Oh, you'll never guess.  From College Fix: 

Following the announced resignation of Barnard College’s president, many students at the women’s college are hoping that her successor brings more intersectionality to the job.

In other words, they don’t want another white woman – and preferably not a heterosexual.

Debora Spar told the student body earlier this month she would leave Barnard in March to become the president of Lincoln Center.

Students quickly flooded message boards, expressing their dissatisfaction and sadness with how Spar had led the college and demanding that the next president look nothing like her.

Posts from a public Facebook forum, Overheard @ Barnard, show the disdain that many students have for Spar as a paragon of “white feminism.”

“Can we write a letter and get like all of the students to sign it… no more white presidents [please],” student Talia Kay wrote on the page. “It’d be great if [we seniors] ushered in our last year by advocating for the administration to hire a woman of color to fill the position.”

Student Josh Zoeller of Columbia University, which is affiliated with Barnard, then chimed in: “hire a Native American woman.”

Upon hearing Spar’s pending resignation, Barnard student Krish JB wrote: “We gone finally have that WoC [woman of color] now?”

Krish, who identifes as “he/they,” then suggested they should ask for “maybe even a TWoC,” meaning a nonwhite transgender woman such as actress Laverne Cox.

COMMENT:  The sad fact is that they may get what they want.  The boards of trustees of these "schools" are often made up of cowards who look for the next invitation to a campus cocktail party. 

It's pathetic.  Our next generation of leaders.  I hope not.  The American people started a rebellion in 2016.  Now they have to see it through and drain the campus swamps, as well as the one in Washington.

December 2, 2016