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To Youth Camp, a Long Farewell

by James J. O'Donnell

Published on Monday, January 1, 20010 Comments

The author writes about the "youth camp" culture in colleges and universities that has resulted in an infantilization that today stands in the way of new ideas and new technologies of strategic importance.

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