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Saturday, December 31, 2005

IT’S ALL OVER BUT
THE COLLEGIALITY


Clyde Barrow, chairman of the policy studies department at U. Mass Dartmouth, wants heads to roll in the aftermath of the embarrassing Little Red Book hoax on his campus. He calls the professors who passed on a student’s absurd claim about government harassment to the mainstream media part of a "dogmatic and zealous group" at the school of “politically correct but chic anti-Americans.” (“but” chic? I thought it was chic to be politically correct.) One of the hoax-enablers dubbed Barrow’s language "incendiary," and said he thinks Barrow is "unstable."



In fact UD has heard that this same history professor is sharing with a small group of journalists an astounding piece of information he’s picked up from another University of Massachusetts student: Professor Barrow is … THE SON OF CLYDE CHESNUT BARROW OF BONNIE AND CLYDE FAME!













Bullet-pocked car reputed to belong
to Professor Clyde Barrow's father.