They're not just sympathetic to the tradition, they are very much committed to it. Others, who may not be as knowledgeable about our traditions, contribute in other ways, such as quality teaching or reaching out to help students. And that's a great plus as well. At an undergraduate level, BC has always had a strong liberal arts tradition based on a core curriculum. Other institutions have in recent times been dismantling the apparatus.
Colleges obviously vary in their curricular requirements.
I am, however, very much committed to the liberal arts because I think they can lead to increased personal freedom. A liberal education is about freedom, about freeing the mind. And I think that when people study literature and history and mathematics and theology and social sciences, they can learn so much about life and culture. The liberal arts and a core curriculum enable people to benefit from a long tradition of learning and to ask questions that are pretty basic to the human experience. The answer was two.