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Overview

As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers--is in danger of becoming a thing of the past.

In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich. In arguing for what a true college education should be, he demonstrates why making it available to as many young people as possible remains central to America's democratic promise.

In a brisk and vivid historical narrative, Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities, and students from low-income families. He describes the unique strengths of America's colleges in our era of globalization and, while recognizing the growing centrality of science, technology, and vocational subjects in the curriculum, he mounts a vigorous defense of a broadly humanistic education for all. Acknowledging the serious financial, intellectual, and ethical challenges that all colleges face today, Delbanco considers what is at stake in the urgent effort to protect these venerable institutions for future generations.

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Editorial Reviews

New York Times Book Review
At a time when many are trying to reduce the college years to a training period for economic competition, Delbanco reminds readers of the ideal of democratic education. . . . The American college is too important 'to be permitted to give up on its own ideals,' Delbanco writes. He has underscored these ideals by tracing their history. Like a great teacher, he has inspired us to try to live up to them.
— Michael S. Roth
New York Times
The book does have a thesis, but it is not thesis-ridden. It seeks to persuade not by driving a stake into the opponent's position or even paying much attention to it, but by offering us examples of the experience it celebrates. Delbanco's is not an argument for, but a display of, the value of a liberal arts education.
— Stanley Fish
New York Review of Books
A lucid, fair, and well-informed account of the problems, and it offers a full-throated defense of the idea that you don't go to college just to get a job. Delbanco's brevity, wit, and curiosity about the past and its lessons for the present give his book a humanity all too rare in the literature on universities.
— Anthony Grafton
The Nation
[I]nsightful and rewarding. . . . Delbanco's evocation of these nineteenth-century precedents is of central importance, for they allow him to demonstrate that liberal education, far from being an elite indulgence, is inseparable from our nation's most cherished and deeply rooted democratic precepts. In the face of today's hyper-accelerated, ultra-competitive global society, the preservation of opportunities for self-development and autonomous reflection is a value we underestimate at our peril.
— Richard Wolin
Booklist
To renew higher education in an age of secular pluralism, Delbanco summons his colleagues to a defense of the university's role in fostering humane and democratic impulses. . . . Delbanco's agenda for reform—curricular, pedagogical, financial, and technological—will stimulate a much-needed national dialogue.
— Bryce Christensen
American Prospect
Delbanco explores American higher education in a manner befitting a scholar of Melville and the Puritans, with a humanist's belief in lessons from history and in asking what the right thing is to do. . . . College has always been a microcosm of society, so a book about it is also about how we're doing as a country.
— Clare Malone
Newark Star-Ledger
The 'Was' part is an illuminating reminder of the Puritan origin of early colleges, such as Harvard and Princeton, where only wealthy males needed apply and where religion, literature and philosophy dominated the curricula. The 'Is' section considers the prohibitive cost, the woefully underprepared applicants, the self-centered teachers and the dominance of research over instruction of undergraduates at today's colleges. Obviously the 'Should Be' is Delbanco's motive in this effort. . . . He dreams of the day when college teachers are back in the classrooms, working collaboratively to bring their youngsters into this new century.
— Kathleen Daley
Times Higher Education
[College] will give a lot of pleasure to anyone who cares about undergraduate education. It offers a fascinating history of the creation and growth of US colleges and universities, some sombre reflections on the tension between the desire of many universities to be known as great research institutions and the needs of their undergraduates, and some angry thoughts about the way in which elite education reinforces economic inequality. . . . Delbanco writes with the exasperated energy of a radical assistant professor half his age, and displays an unforced affection for undergraduate students that is deeply engaging and permeates the book with an infectious optimism about the possibilities of liberal education in spite of all the obstacles that he lists.
— Alan Ryan
Kansas City Star
Refreshingly, Delbanco's examination of what college was doesn't turn into a longing backward look. . . . This book is a result of what Delbanco says is two decades of visiting more than 100 colleges of all types, from community colleges to the undergraduate divisions of research universities. It is also the product of extensive reading: He seems to have digested every self-flagellating and self-congratulating essay, every cri de coeur and jeremiad about higher ed that has been produced since scholars sat down together in collegium.
— Sebastian Stockman
Commonweal
This is a brief, well-researched book, and an insightful account of the factors that shape the current higher educational landscape.
— Dennis O'Brien
Cleveland Plain Dealer
[An] eloquent book—a combination of jeremiad, elegy and call to arms.
— Alan Cate
Inside Higher Ed

In College, [Delbanco] looks to the lengthy and dynamic history of higher education in America as a lens through which to examine its current crises and unsettled future.
— Serena Golden
Spiked Review of Books
'Every year the teacher gets older while the students stay the same age.' This has always been true, but Delbanco's observation has a poignant weight today when college is always justified as being for something, whether for the economy, or for democracy, or for social mobility, and not as a place that exists as a community asking questions together, trying to unify knowledge to make sense of our lives—in short, as a place where we pursue the truth.
— Angus Kennedy
Newark Star Ledger

The 'Was' part is an illuminating reminder of the Puritan origin of early colleges, such as Harvard and Princeton, where only wealthy males needed apply and where religion, literature and philosophy dominated the curricula. The 'Is' section considers the prohibitive cost, the woefully underprepared applicants, the self-centered teachers and the dominance of research over instruction of undergraduates at today's colleges. Obviously the 'Should Be' is Delbanco's motive in this effort. . . . He dreams of the day when college teachers are back in the classrooms, working collaboratively to bring their youngsters into this new century.
— Kathleen Daley
Teachers College Record
Andrew Delbanco does a marvelous job tracing the evolution of one of the most treasured institutions in the United States, 'college,' in terms of the ideal of such an institution and the challenges it is facing. . . . Delbanco's book would be a great one for students and scholars in the fields of educational philosophy, history of education, educational policy, and other related fields. It would also be a good read for anyone who is interested in the development of higher education in the United States.
— Shouping Hu
Wilson Quarterly
What commends [t]his book is its richness of reference and its willingness to charge colleges and universities with lapses that should sow insomnia among administrators.
— James Morris
Weekly Standard
College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be gives a clear picture of all the forces, both within and outside the university, working against the liberal arts.
— Joseph Epstein
America magazine
Andrew Delbanco's recent book is to be praised, for it reminds us that college should be about character formation and not a surrender to a customer service mentality that inflates accomplishments to please future employers, placate doting parents and repair fragile egos. . . . Enlightening.
— Robert J. Parmach
Inside Higher Ed.
In College, [Delbanco] looks to the lengthy and dynamic history of higher education in America as a lens through which to examine its current crises and unsettled future.
— Serena Golden
Inside Higher Ed...
In College, [Delbanco] looks to the lengthy and dynamic history of higher education in America as a lens through which to examine its current crises and unsettled future.
— Serena Golden
New York Times Book Review - Michael S. Roth

At a time when many are trying to reduce the college years to a training period for economic competition, Delbanco reminds readers of the ideal of democratic education. . . . The American college is too important 'to be permitted to give up on its own ideals,' Delbanco writes. He has underscored these ideals by tracing their history. Like a great teacher, he has inspired us to try to live up to them.
New York Times - Stanley Fish

The book does have a thesis, but it is not thesis-ridden. It seeks to persuade not by driving a stake into the opponent's position or even paying much attention to it, but by offering us examples of the experience it celebrates. Delbanco's is not an argument for, but a display of, the value of a liberal arts education.
New York Review of Books - Anthony Grafton

A lucid, fair, and well-informed account of the problems, and it offers a full-throated defense of the idea that you don't go to college just to get a job. Delbanco's brevity, wit, and curiosity about the past and its lessons for the present give his book a humanity all too rare in the literature on universities.
The Nation - Richard Wolin

[I]nsightful and rewarding. . . . Delbanco's evocation of these nineteenth-century precedents is of central importance, for they allow him to demonstrate that liberal education, far from being an elite indulgence, is inseparable from our nation's most cherished and deeply rooted democratic precepts. In the face of today's hyper-accelerated, ultra-competitive global society, the preservation of opportunities for self-development and autonomous reflection is a value we underestimate at our peril.
Booklist - Bryce Christensen

To renew higher education in an age of secular pluralism, Delbanco summons his colleagues to a defense of the university's role in fostering humane and democratic impulses. . . . Delbanco's agenda for reform--curricular, pedagogical, financial, and technological--will stimulate a much-needed national dialogue.
American Prospect - Clare Malone

Delbanco explores American higher education in a manner befitting a scholar of Melville and the Puritans, with a humanist's belief in lessons from history and in asking what the right thing is to do. . . . College has always been a microcosm of society, so a book about it is also about how we're doing as a country.
Vox Magazine, Missourian - Kacie Flynn

A thoughtful and insightful look at American college's exceptionalism and pitfalls. . . . Whether you're in college, thinking about college or just paying for it, it's a good read to help better understand one of America's oldest and finest institutions. And if we want it to stay that way, we all better get schooled about it.
Newark Star Ledger - Kathleen Daley

The 'Was' part is an illuminating reminder of the Puritan origin of early colleges, such as Harvard and Princeton, where only wealthy males needed apply and where religion, literature and philosophy dominated the curricula. The 'Is' section considers the prohibitive cost, the woefully underprepared applicants, the self-centered teachers and the dominance of research over instruction of undergraduates at today's colleges. Obviously the 'Should Be' is Delbanco's motive in this effort. . . . He dreams of the day when college teachers are back in the classrooms, working collaboratively to bring their youngsters into this new century.
Times Higher Education - Alan Ryan

[College] will give a lot of pleasure to anyone who cares about undergraduate education. It offers a fascinating history of the creation and growth of US colleges and universities, some sombre reflections on the tension between the desire of many universities to be known as great research institutions and the needs of their undergraduates, and some angry thoughts about the way in which elite education reinforces economic inequality. . . . Delbanco writes with the exasperated energy of a radical assistant professor half his age, and displays an unforced affection for undergraduate students that is deeply engaging and permeates the book with an infectious optimism about the possibilities of liberal education in spite of all the obstacles that he lists.
Kansas City Star - Sebastian Stockman

Refreshingly, Delbanco's examination of what college was doesn't turn into a longing backward look. . . . This book is a result of what Delbanco says is two decades of visiting more than 100 colleges of all types, from community colleges to the undergraduate divisions of research universities. It is also the product of extensive reading: He seems to have digested every self-flagellating and self-congratulating essay, every cri de coeur and jeremiad about higher ed that has been produced since scholars sat down together in collegium.
Commonweal - Dennis O'Brien

This is a brief, well-researched book, and an insightful account of the factors that shape the current higher educational landscape.
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Alan Cate

[An] eloquent book--a combination of jeremiad, elegy and call to arms.
Inside Higher Ed - Serena Golden

In College, [Delbanco] looks to the lengthy and dynamic history of higher education in America as a lens through which to examine its current crises and unsettled future.
Spiked Review of Books - Angus Kennedy

'Every year the teacher gets older while the students stay the same age.' This has always been true, but Delbanco's observation has a poignant weight today when college is always justified as being for something, whether for the economy, or for democracy, or for social mobility, and not as a place that exists as a community asking questions together, trying to unify knowledge to make sense of our lives--in short, as a place where we pursue the truth.
Teachers College Record - Shouping Hu

Andrew Delbanco does a marvelous job tracing the evolution of one of the most treasured institutions in the United States, 'college,' in terms of the ideal of such an institution and the challenges it is facing. . . . Delbanco's book would be a great one for students and scholars in the fields of educational philosophy, history of education, educational policy, and other related fields. It would also be a good read for anyone who is interested in the development of higher education in the United States.
Wilson Quarterly - James Morris

What commends [t]his book is its richness of reference and its willingness to charge colleges and universities with lapses that should sow insomnia among administrators.
Weekly Standard - Joseph Epstein

College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be gives a clear picture of all the forces, both within and outside the university, working against the liberal arts.
America magazine - Robert J. Parmach

Andrew Delbanco's recent book is to be praised, for it reminds us that college should be about character formation and not a surrender to a customer service mentality that inflates accomplishments to please future employers, placate doting parents and repair fragile egos. . . . Enlightening.
Choice

Well researched, succinct, and eloquently written, this little book should be in every library in every institution of higher learning. It would be an appropriate book for all new faculty members so that they can quickly come to understand the professional situation they are now in. . . . Delbanco's intention is to avoid writing a jeremiad, elegy, funeral dirge, or call to arms. He has succeeded. His realistic account of the current state of affairs is indeed sobering.
New York Times

The book does have a thesis, but it is not thesis-ridden. It seeks to persuade not by driving a stake into the opponent's position or even paying much attention to it, but by offering us examples of the experience it celebrates. Delbanco's is not an argument for, but a display of, the value of a liberal arts education.
— Stanley Fish

Kansas City Star

Refreshingly, Delbanco's examination of what college was doesn't turn into a longing backward look. . . . This book is a result of what Delbanco says is two decades of visiting more than 100 colleges of all types, from community colleges to the undergraduate divisions of research universities. It is also the product of extensive reading: He seems to have digested every self-flagellating and self-congratulating essay, every cri de coeur and jeremiad about higher ed that has been produced since scholars sat down together in collegium.
— Sebastian Stockman

Commonweal

This is a brief, well-researched book, and an insightful account of the factors that shape the current higher educational landscape.
— Dennis O'Brien

The Nation

[I]nsightful and rewarding. . . . Delbanco's evocation of these nineteenth-century precedents is of central importance, for they allow him to demonstrate that liberal education, far from being an elite indulgence, is inseparable from our nation's most cherished and deeply rooted democratic precepts. In the face of today's hyper-accelerated, ultra-competitive global society, the preservation of opportunities for self-development and autonomous reflection is a value we underestimate at our peril.
— Richard Wolin

Booklist

To renew higher education in an age of secular pluralism, Delbanco summons his colleagues to a defense of the university's role in fostering humane and democratic impulses. . . . Delbanco's agenda for reform—curricular, pedagogical, financial, and technological—will stimulate a much-needed national dialogue.
— Bryce Christensen

Cleveland Plain Dealer

[An] eloquent book—a combination of jeremiad, elegy and call to arms.
— Alan Cate

Times Higher Education

[College] will give a lot of pleasure to anyone who cares about undergraduate education. It offers a fascinating history of the creation and growth of US colleges and universities, some sombre reflections on the tension between the desire of many universities to be known as great research institutions and the needs of their undergraduates, and some angry thoughts about the way in which elite education reinforces economic inequality. . . . Delbanco writes with the exasperated energy of a radical assistant professor half his age, and displays an unforced affection for undergraduate students that is deeply engaging and permeates the book with an infectious optimism about the possibilities of liberal education in spite of all the obstacles that he lists.
— Alan Ryan

New York Times Book Review

At a time when many are trying to reduce the college years to a training period for economic competition, Delbanco reminds readers of the ideal of democratic education. . . . The American college is too important 'to be permitted to give up on its own ideals,' Delbanco writes. He has underscored these ideals by tracing their history. Like a great teacher, he has inspired us to try to live up to them.
— Michael S. Roth

Newark Star-Ledger

The 'Was' part is an illuminating reminder of the Puritan origin of early colleges, such as Harvard and Princeton, where only wealthy males needed apply and where religion, literature and philosophy dominated the curricula. The 'Is' section considers the prohibitive cost, the woefully underprepared applicants, the self-centered teachers and the dominance of research over instruction of undergraduates at today's colleges. Obviously the 'Should Be' is Delbanco's motive in this effort. . . . He dreams of the day when college teachers are back in the classrooms, working collaboratively to bring their youngsters into this new century.
— Kathleen Daley

American Prospect

Delbanco explores American higher education in a manner befitting a scholar of Melville and the Puritans, with a humanist's belief in lessons from history and in asking what the right thing is to do. . . . College has always been a microcosm of society, so a book about it is also about how we're doing as a country.
— Clare Malone

New York Review of Books

A lucid, fair, and well-informed account of the problems, and it offers a full-throated defense of the idea that you don't go to college just to get a job. Delbanco's brevity, wit, and curiosity about the past and its lessons for the present give his book a humanity all too rare in the literature on universities.
— Anthony Grafton

Teachers College Record

Andrew Delbanco does a marvelous job tracing the evolution of one of the most treasured institutions in the United States, 'college,' in terms of the ideal of such an institution and the challenges it is facing. . . . Delbanco's book would be a great one for students and scholars in the fields of educational philosophy, history of education, educational policy, and other related fields. It would also be a good read for anyone who is interested in the development of higher education in the United States.
— Shouping Hu

Inside Higher Ed

In College, [Delbanco] looks to the lengthy and dynamic history of higher education in America as a lens through which to examine its current crises and unsettled future.
— Serena Golden

Spiked Review of Books

'Every year the teacher gets older while the students stay the same age.' This has always been true, but Delbanco's observation has a poignant weight today when college is always justified as being for something, whether for the economy, or for democracy, or for social mobility, and not as a place that exists as a community asking questions together, trying to unify knowledge to make sense of our lives—in short, as a place where we pursue the truth.
— Angus Kennedy

Library Journal
After more than 20 years of teaching, Delbanco (American studies & humanities, Columbia Univ.; Melville: His World and Work) believes Americans need to rethink the goals of university education and what kind of university can best achieve those goals. He emphasizes the importance of the undergraduate, residential experience, where students can develop their ethical as well as analytical intelligence. He criticizes the largest and most successful institutions for reducing the attention paid to undergraduates and engendering a sense of entitlement among students rather than social responsibility. He assigns blame broadly, pointing out that graduate training fails to teach future faculty about the importance of undergraduate education, while too many institutions have lost sight of the role of ethics and integrity in the curriculum. Delbanco recognizes the problems in contemporary higher education of high costs, limited access, low completion rates, and uncertain purpose, but he stresses the importance of staying focused on the core values of education while working to remedy the weaknesses. VERDICT Recommended for academic and general audiences as a thoughtful, literate, and gracefully written reminder of what higher education needs to be.—Elizabeth R. Hayford, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL
Kirkus Reviews
Has the democratic ideal of a classical education, open to rich and poor alike, become a thing of the past? That's the scenario proposed by esteemed literary scholar Delbanco (Humanities and American Studies/Columbia Univ.; Melville: His World and Work, 2005, etc.) in this engaging assessment of how American higher education has lost its way. He starts with the American ideal, dating back to the Puritans, of college as a place that trained the whole person, taught students "how to think and how to choose" and how to question received wisdom. The examined life, in essence; a process of "growing out of an embattled sense of self into a more generous view of life as continuous self-reflection in light of new experience, including the witnessed experience of others." In modern America, that focus has shifted: Now it's less about the eternal verities than chasing after dollars, more about filling seats than heads and more about science than the humanities. The research university is now regarded as "the most evolved species in the institutional chain of being." The greater purpose founders, while "literature, history, philosophy, and the arts are becoming the stepchildren of our colleges." Given his pedigree, Delbanco may sound like he's protecting his own turf, but he makes a strong case that the purely materialist approach to education assures that the disparity between rich and poor students only widens, with "merit-based" financial aid and scholarships all going disproportionately to students from families with money. Scholarship reform, a classical curriculum, more real teaching (and less lecturing to crowded halls) are all in order. Although stronger on diagnosis than cure, this is an impassioned call for a corrupt system to heal itself.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780691130736
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publication date: 3/20/2012
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 240
  • Sales rank: 177,124
  • Product dimensions: 5.60 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author


Andrew Delbanco is the Mendelson Family Chair of American Studies and the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His many books include "Melville: His World and Work" (Vintage), which won the Lionel Trilling Award and was a finalist for the "Los Angeles Times" book prize in biography. He is a recipient of the 2011 National Humanities Medal for his writing that spans the literature of Melville and Emerson to contemporary issues in higher education.
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Table of Contents


Preface xi

Introduction 1

Chapter One: What Is College For? 9

Chapter Two: Origins 36

Chapter Three: From College to University 67

Chapter Four: Who Went? Who Goes? Who Pays? 102

Chapter Five: Brave New World 125

Chapter Six: What Is to Be Done? 150

Acknowledgments 179

Notes 183

Index 215

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    Posted March 27, 2013

    Claudia Donovan. Age 17. Kinda punk/ goth.

    *A techi girl walks in. She has red hair that starts off short in the back and slants down to just below chin length in the front. Her bangs sweep off to the side. She has big brown eyes and shes wearing black eyeshadow. She wears a black cami under a halfway buttondown really dark long sleeve tee shirt under a techi leather no sleeve vest with button pins on the flaps and skinny jeans and one of a kind converse. In her jeans back pocket is a gun like object with a brass rim and clear barrel and batteries are visible. Shes talking to someone on her funky video comunicator made out of an old black metal cigarette case. She is a spunky spontanious girl with a good sense of humor and is pretty serious when things are tough.* Artie relax ill be fine. Tell the others i say hi. Give Joshua and Jinksy a hug for me. *Closes the cigarette case.* Ugh id rather be back at the Warehouse doing inventory than here writing english papers and going to frat parties.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 26, 2013

    Victoria Elisabeth Blase . Age 17 . Ovious girl.

    A sophisticated girl walks in. Her golden blonde curls are long and down her back. Her eyes are covered in Dior sunglasses. She wears black lulu lemon leggings amd a tan trench coat. Her red wedges echo on on the floor. Her large supply of Louis Vuitton luggage is behind her. She is talking on her iphone....." Dad.......this isnt Corson prep....." she hangs up and sighs surveying the campus and the people. - Tori.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 27, 2013

    Eclipse

    Age: 16. Gender: duhh... girl. Descripition: has long pure black hair, eyes like an eclipse, her bangs are off to the side and has a gold streak in them. Family: Shyan(also called Glimmer (sister)) , April (also called Puma(sister)). History: why would i tell you? Anyways... April is my stepsister. Shes my stepsister. Shyan is mine and Aprils stepsister. And were her stepsisters and Mystery is Glimmers actual sister..... basically were are all made from a diferent woman same dad except for Glimmer and Mystery same woman same dad. Criminal record: ummmmm isnt that for police to know? Personality: quiet but fun and outgoing, and happy.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 29, 2013

    Allyson

    "Kay."(cafe is res four)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 6, 2012

    Lea

    Hello. Where do I enroll? *a girl with dirt brown hair walks through the front doors, looking around. *

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 13, 2012

    Tori

    Ok im done with this rp nobody is eva on !peace!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 6, 2012

    Jonathan

    Ok but i think she means that boys dorm is res two and girls dorm is res two

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 6, 2012

    Moonlight to Kylie

    Arigatou.[Thank you.]

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 6, 2012

    Ebony XD I HAVE INVADED YOUR TERRITORY!!!

    I HATE HARRY POTTER! IT'S TO OVER RATED!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 6, 2012

    Ms. Josie

    Okay.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 6, 2012

    SASHA TO ALL

    They shut it down so im running it now

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