What Do New Orleans, Columbia University and Duke University Have in Common?

From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 1/16/07 | Purple Mountains

[PurpleMountains]

Answer: they are cesspools of liberal control, with residents of New Orleans unwilling or unable to help themselves after Katrina, and with students and faculty of both schools so steeped in political correctness and multiculturalism that white students and conservative speakers are harassed and threatened while their administration stands by in embarrassed or willing silence. Could anyone watch 60 Minutes without cringing as the president of Duke University tried to explain why Duke allowed its faculty and students to pummel the Duke lacrosse players?

[Enterprise]

"Mr. Brodhead in due course reinstated the team, but on probation, and with conditions, i.e., no underage drinking and disorderly conduct, and no harassment. The members of other Duke organizations, sports teams included, which had sponsored parties where alcohol flowed freely and which had featured strippers--an informal count reveals at least 20 known to have done so--no doubt understood that they faced no similar disciplinary action."

However, in a demonstration of breathtaking magnanimity, President Brodhead said that "Lacrosse players could participate in underage drinking, disorderly conduct and harassment at the parties of other sports teams." The only requirement is that the other teams must "closely supervise the Lacrosse members."

[PurpleMountains]

If I get your drift, you raise a deeper point. When I first started teaching, the term, 'in loco parentis' applied. Due to the efforts of liberals on faculty and in the administration, and even, surprisingly, to parents complaints, this became, and is now, 'anything goes'. Colleges have become places where binge drinking, pervasive casual sex and robotic liberal propaganda with no tolerance for dissent is the norm.

[Enterprise]

It does seem to be the norm. My take on this was more satire than sage. I was marveling on how outraged Brodhead became over the actions of the Lacrosse players, so he came down on them with a heavy hammer. However, other teams are doing the same thing, but because they aren't in the spotlight, they may continue.

Brodhead in essence: "You damned Lacrosse players, no more underage drinking, loutish behavior and harassment! And as for you other teams, uh, go ahead and continue the underage drinking, loutish behavior, and harassment."

[Dick Vomer]