L.L. Nunn featured in the New Yorker

Go to a bookstore and grab the latest copy of the New Yorker! There's a rather lengthy article about Deep Springs College and several references to the Telluride Association, Kroch Library, and the Cornell Branch. It was awesome reading about all these familiar things in such a prestigious magazine. Sigh. The article also features humorous anecdotes about Deep Springers.. definitely worth a read. For example, one student was so romance-deprived that he developed a crush on a household cat (apparently, its behavior was "feminine"). Here's the summary, if you're interested (the actual article is much better):

Dana Goodyear writes about Deep Springs College, a tuition-free, two-year junior college for boys located on a secluded, working cattle ranch near Death Valley, California, that was founded in 1917 as a novel, model institution for building top leaders (“The Searchers,” p. 62). The school teaches uncanonical subjects and emphasizes philosophy, alongside traditional curriculum. It also requires of its students several hours of manual labor each day. Enrollment is limited to roughly twenty-five, and contact with the outside world is discouraged. The school, which is primarily white, suburban, and upper-middle-class, has struggled to diversify, and the prospect of accepting women—or making even the slightest institutional changes—has been widely rejected by the students and trustees. One student explains, “These trial attempts to be one kind of man or another kind of man at Deep Springs need the safety and the sanctity of an all-male environment.” However, Goodyear writes, “The shock of returning to the world of social norms can be profound.” A recent alumnus explains, “Part of the difficulty of the transition was that Deep Springs is supposed to be an allegory for the wider world. . . . And then when you get to the wider world you think of it as a shoddy allegory for Deep Springs. You’re nostalgic for the thing that was supposed to prepare you for an engaged, generous, disciplined world outside. . . . It’s helped you get an intuition for interconnectedness, but you have to start learning about people all over again—and definitely learning about women.”