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‘99-‘00 Politically Correct Top Ten List
The 20th century’s last school year ends, but political correctness remains. From school officials stealing student newspapers to outlawing clothing they dislike to attempting to ban conservative speakers, Accuracy in Academia’s PC Top Ten List demonstrates that college administrators still strive to make higher education the most intellectually stifling environment in all of society.
10) THE WRONG KIND OF DIVERSITY Yale counselors for the school’s freshmen orientation confiscated and trashed more than 700 copies of the student magazine Light & Truth. The "offensive" issue was geared toward warning incoming freshmen about indoctrination within the orientation program. Most notably, Light & Truth poked fun at the orientation’s "condom race" in which new students race to place condoms on a wooden phallus. "I was incensed by their condemnation of programs important to campus safety," counselor Tom Cantey said in justifying the thefts.
9) HOT COCOA, COLD RECEPTION "They weren’t just distributing free cocoa out of the goodness of their heart," SUNY-Potsdam spokesman Scott Shewell said of fraternity members who were threatened with arrest by school administrators for giving out hot chocolate. In a transparent attempt to ban Greek life, the school has suspended all but one of its fraternities this year and has embraced such kangaroo court methods as double-jeopardy, the acceptance of anonymous accusations, and no cross-examination of witnesses. Giving out hot cocoa is not the worst of the Greeks’ offenses! Wearing Greek "letters" in certain areas of campus is banned, with the cops being sicced on students for doing so. "A gang would call it their colors. Fraternities and sororities call it their letters," Director of Campus Life Chip Morris told Campus Report.
8) CATHOLIC VIEWS CENSORED—AT CATHOLIC VILLANOVA An administrator at Villanova confiscated an entire press run of a student publication because of its pro-life content. "We obviously have some serious concerns about the content of The Conservative Column," director of student development Tom Mogan declared to the editor’s voice mail. "Therefore, I will be removing all the issues of The Conservative Column that I see."
7) AGREE WITH US—OR ELSE! At the University of Oklahoma, disagreeing with a feminist can cost you your job. A column in the school’s student newspaper complained how gun laws permit "criminals, youth, and the mentally disabled to quickly and easily kill as many random people as they want." Demonstrating how illogical this line of reasoning is, Geology Professor David Deming pointed out that the author’s "‘easy access’ to a vagina enables her to ‘quickly and easily’ have sex with as many random people" as she wants. Instead of combatting his letter with counterarguments, sexual harassment charges have been filed against him by campus feminists. "People express controversial opinions all the time," reacted Deming. "You usually don’t try to silence [them] by trying to get them fired."
6) GET YOUR DEGREE IN RADICAL ACTIVISM Bradford College’s "Studies in Social Justice" is the first department in the country in which students can major in activism for college credit. The program’s director, Allan Rachlin, defended the politicized nature of his program by telling Campus Report, "What major, what course, what professor doesn’t have a political agenda?" Activists such as labor organizers and environmentalists speak to classes in the department—the director admitted that no conservatives have lectured to classes—and then the students volunteer for ideological groups. "I question the very idea of objectivity," Professor Rachlin candidly admitted to AIA.
5) FEMINIST WITCHHUNT After a string of reported assaults, a woman came forward at UMass claiming to have been slashed in the face and attacked in broad daylight by a would-be rapist. The attacker was none other than the woman herself, who inflicted the knife attack upon herself. This phony claim of sexual assault at UMass sparked the school to spend more than $100,000 for 15,000 shriek alarms, cut down trees and bushes that could conceal potential rapists, hire martial arts instructors, and bring in numerous feminist speakers to address rape. Some campus feminists applauded the false report as raising awareness, while others made excuses for it. "Violence is a discourse that is very present and is given legitimacy in this society. Maybe this person couldn’t have another kind of conversation to be heard," opined Marta Calais, acting chair of UMass-Amherst’s women’s studies department.
4) GUNNING FOR MOSES When students at Brandeis attempted to bring Charlton Heston to campus, administrators told them to get a bomb-sniffing dog, airport-style metal detectors, hand-held metal detectors, scores of guards, and four units of Heston’s blood-type! The piling on of thousands of dollars in unnecessary costs upon Heston’s student hosts—costs that are normally absorbed by the school—was widely recognized as a backdoor attempt at censorship. Brandeis’s ridiculous requirements backfired, however, with C-SPAN covering the speech and over a thousand people having to be turned away from the packed auditorium.
3) COP KILLER COMMENCEMENT Antioch College is hosting unrepentant Marxist murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal as a commencement speaker. Opponents of the death row commencement speaker, Antioch President Bob Devine contends, are "trying very hard to keep one man’s voice from being heard." "Individuals on death row," Dean of Students Scott Warren declared, "still have the right of free speech." These same administrators who invoke "free speech" impose a campus-wide speech code, feature a guest lecture program that maintains a de facto ban on conservative speakers, and even regulate students’ dating habits.
2) ‘YOU ARE YOUR VAGINA,’ at least according to playwright Eve Ensler. A movement to replace Valentine’s Day with Vagina Day, or V-Day for short, sparked more than 150 schools to stage productions of Ensler’s Vagina Monologues. The play is comprised of women stating what their vaginas would say if they could talk. Despite claiming to raise awareness about violence against women, the play ironically glorifies the statutory rape of a girl by an older female as a liberating experience. So sacrosanct is the play that a student columnist at Georgetown was fired by the school’s paper after criticizing The Vagina Monologues.
1) PUBLIC ENEMA # 1 When Jonathan Yegge was asked by his instructor at the San Francisco Art Institute to produce a work of "art" that pushed the boundaries, he created "Art Piece #1." Yegge informed his teacher that he’d be having public sex with another student, got a volunteer, and performed his project in the middle of campus for all to see. "I engaged in oral sex with him and he engaged in oral sex with me," Yegge illustrated. "I had given him an enema, and I had taken a shit and stuffed it in his ass. That goes on, he shits all over me, I shit in him. There was a security guard present. There was an instructor from the school present. It was videoed, and the piece was over." Yegge believes that his piece was "not even close to being controversial."
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