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1998 Politically Correct Top Ten

Political correctness on campus just isn’t going away. With the close of 1998 and students returning to campus to face yet another semester of leftist indoctrination, Young America’s Foundation compiled the following Top 10 List of perhaps the most blatant offenses of political correctness on America’s campuses in 1998.

10. Boston College kicked a student out of a women’s studies class solely on the basis that the student is male. A discrimination suit against the university is pending.


9. Barnard College was forced to delete a line from its brochures stating that graduates of women’s colleges are more likely to marry and have children than graduates of co-ed schools. The campus group Lesbians and Bisexuals in Action claimed that this promoted a stereotype that women’s colleges produce "unshaved, unmanageable, unruly women, or women who become lesbians."


8. Arizona State University refused to tenure professor Jared Sakren because he taught Shakespeare in his theater classes and refused to amend the original works to comply with the university’s request to make them more politically correct and non-offensive to feminists.


7. Columbia University kicked off a conference hosted by conservative student group Accuracy in Academia after leftists protested some of the speakers, including Ward Connerly and Dinesh D’Souza. Tactics by university officials included: locking the conference inside a building for over an hour, allowing only Columbia students to enter the conference despite the fact that over 2/3 of the registered attendees were from other schools, and forcing the conference off the campus and into a park.


6. Dartmouth College offered a drama course titled Offensive Art, in which students study "fine arts, photography, performance and film which have elicited extremely strong negative critic/spectator response." The course content will include "works which have been censored, censured and banned as what was perceived as obscenity…all presented audiences with the discomfort and difficulty of ‘reading’ viscerally offensive materials." These works, which include porn as performance art and simulated penis slicing, will be studied and students will be asked "what they might ‘mean.’"

5. Emory University school administrators refused to intervene when lecturer Ward Connerly was continually heckled with obscenities and racial slurs. Although two university deans, the student body president, and five security guards were in attendance, no attempt was made to stop the harassment. When asked to directly intercede, one dean refused stating that she would only intervene if Mr. Connerly’s life was in danger.


4. Police in Santa Barbara, California, shut down a local prostitution operation called "College Cuties" in December. The bordello was staffed almost exclusively by University of California-Santa Barbara students who made up to $10,000 a week in their exploits. A UCSB professor who teaches courses in pornography as a popular American film genre claims, however, that this is a labor issue. According to the Santa Barbara News-Press, professor Constance Penley said "It’s an issue of men wanting to control what women are allowed to sell. People need to realize that these are intelligent women making rational economic choices."


3. Angela Davis, a three-time candidate for vice president on the Communist Party ticket, 1979 recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize and a constant apologist for totalitarian regimes, was chosen by the University of Chicago to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. Students who disagreed with the choice and brought black entrepreneur Reginald Jones to campus were met with fierce opposition from the college administration.


2. California State University-Northridge welcomed the World Pornography Conference to its campus, which hosted topics such as "Visual and Carnal Pleasures in Hard Core Pornography," "No Limits: Necessary Danger in Male Porn," "Beyond ‘Looking for My Penis’: Asian Queer Porn," "Porn 101: Assimilating Pornographic Materials into the College Classroom" and "Bathhouse 101 as a General Education Requirement."

#1. When Pat Buchanan was invited to speak at Syracuse University last fall, leftist students continually disrupted his speech by yelling obscenities. At the beginning of the question and answer session, fourteen members of the Lesbian Avengers, a radical campus group, stood and began kissing each other in the pews of Hendricks Chapel to show their disapproval of Buchanan’s stance on homosexuality. The demonstrations continued after the speech, culminating with students burning a Bible in front of the chapel.

For more information or to schedule an interview, please call Melissa Moskal at 800-292-9231.

Young America’s Foundation is an educational organization promoting conservative ideas on our nation’s campuses through lectures, publications and conferences. During the past academic year, the Foundation sponsored over 300 lectures, including addresses by Margaret Thatcher, Rush Limbaugh and Norman Schwarzkopf. In addition, the Foundation recently acquired President Rancho del Cielo in Santa Barbara, California, which will serve as the centerpiece for the Ronald Reagan Leadership Program.

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