Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

I know that, as someone committed to the academic study of BtVS, I shouldn't snigger at this, but something about the way this article was summarized (using the TV show "Lost" to acclimate students to university life -- because, you know, being a freshman at a major research university is very much like being cast away on a frightfully un-deserted island where your worst fears take on solid form, etc., so I can sort of see where the prof might be coming from) just struck me as wild and weird:

"'Lost' to ease freshmen into academic rigors of college:

"The Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning television series 'Lost' will be used as a
springboard for learning concepts about cultural studies in a new communications
studies course at Vanderbilt."

(full article, including interview with the prof, is at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=27794)

Of course, when you actually read the article (and not just the title and blurb), it turns out to be much less weird and inventive than I'd thought. Ah, well.