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University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 14, 1991
The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus
DINESH D'SOUZA, author of ILLIBERAL EDUCATION
argues that the politically correct have gone too far, as portrayed in the following examples from his book:
Ivy League Schools are among the most competitive schools in the nation, the typical student has a G.P.A. close to a 4.0 and an SAT score of 1,250 to 1,300. However, several of these schools admit Black, Hispanic, and Native American students with grade points as low as 2.5 and SAT aggregates in the 700 to 800 range.
Leonard Jefferies, Chairman of the Afro-American studies department at City College of New York and coauthor of a controversial multicultural curriculum for all public schools in New York State, teaches that the slave trade was formed by a conspiracy of wealthy Jews, that Nazi Germany was the "ultimate culmination" of the white value system, and that whites are biologically inferior to Blacks. He offers his solution to the white problem: "If I had my way, I'd wipe them off the face of the earth."
At Berkeley, Black and Hjspanic students are twenty times as likely to be accepted as Asian-American students with the same test scores.
The movie "It's a Wonderful Life" was forced to be withdrawn from one university's film course after a group of black students protested the movie's alleged portrayal of a black woman in negative terms.
After a proposal for mandatory "diversity education" was introduced at the University of Pennsylvania an undergraduate member of the "diversity education" planning committee wrote a note to the administration expressing her reservations about the program and emphasized her deep regard for the individual, "and desire to protect the freedoms of all members of society." A university administrator sent her note back with the word "individual" underlined and commented, "This is a RED FLAG phrase today, which is considered by many to be RACIST. Arguments that champion the individual over the group ultimately privilege the "individuals" belonging to the largest or dominant group."
In a manual for race, class, and gender education distributed by the American Sociological Association, Becky Thompson, a sociologist, describes the ideological presuppositions of her teaching methodology by saying, "Specifically, this means that it is not open to debate whether a white student is racist or a male student is sexist. He/She simply is."
An admissions Dean at the University of Virginia, where the average white freshman scores 246 points higher on the SAT than the average black freshman, told The Washington Post,"We take more in the groups with weaker credentials and make it harder for those with the stronger credentials."
Jerome Pinn, a graduate student, moved into his dormitory at the University of Michigan to discover that his roommate had pinned up pictures of nude men on the wall. After his roommate informed him that he was an active homosexual and intended to have partners over, Pinn requested a room change. "They were outraged by this," Pinn says. "They asked me--what my problem was. I said that I had a religious and moral objection to homosexual conduct. They were surprised; they couldn't believe it. Finally they agreed to assign me to another room, but they warned me that if I told anyone of the reason, I would face university charges of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation."
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After an uproar of protests began at the University of Kansas following the impeachment of the first Black student body president, a KU student was quoted in the New York Times as saying, "There really is a lot of anxiety now surfacing over the term "diversity". People are so afraid to say anything because they don't want to be called racist."
More than one-half of the colleges and universities in this nation have "gag rules" on the books to censor politically incorrect speech.
Come tonight and judge for yourself. A question period will follow.
MONDAY,OCTOBER 14,1991 AT 8:00 PM IN THE KANSAS UNION BALLROOM
ADMISSION $3.00 TICKETS AVAILABLE AT SUA BOX OFFICE The lecture will be followed by a reception and booksigning in association with the Mt. Oread Bookshop
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