That sounds quite radical. Do you happen to have a link to this article? If so I would be interested in writing the board of trustees for that institution.
It's not too hard to find some pretty far out folks from all walks of life where I went to school (CU Boulder). I heard the same thing and more from the students there, and that was 20 years ago. I got a chuckle out of it at the time, but they were very serious about it.