ok, the exceptions. 1)we had this lame multi-culti 'sensitivity/diversity' workshop during orientation. Lasted a couple of hours, lots of eyes rolling but not all that odious. The minority students were hardly your victicrat types, anyway, and if there were any bigoted students I never met any. So it was a dose of PC but only mildly nauseating. However...
2)The PC brouhaha of all time: A guy I happened to know--very much a party dude--lived in a house with a bunch of other very social Whartonites and regularly held all sorts of bashes. He and his housemates typically went all-out--and did 'themed' parties and whatnot that were pretty incredible. Anyway, at one point he held a mock-seventies 'pimps 'n' hoes' party where, you can imagine, people had to come dressed up either as a pimp or a hoe, blaxploitation style, and the house was all outfitted with 70's kitsch, 'Shaft' music, etc. All sorts of people attended the party, including blacks, and it was such a huge and hilarious success that a few months later they decided to hold a second one.
The second time around, though, they sent out an email invitation that got forwarded more than they might have liked. Not only that, but the email invitation contained some links to various parody sites that were campy but evidently a bit too much for some recipients. Now, you wouldn't believe the sh**storm of controversy that was ignited. I mean, people were calling for this poor guy's head. There was such a frenzy of hypersensitive, pious moralizing; a round of MANDATORY meetings in which this guy was dragged to the front and lectured to--I don't recall exactly what the eventual punishment for this guy was, aside from complete humiliation, though he remained at the school and graduated with all of us. Anyway. This was all still Clinton-era but it was highly disturbing--just thought I would provide 'full disclosure' of a disgustingly PC spectacle at an otherwise very pro-capitalist, mostly non-political school. (Of course, most of the rest of UPenn is disgustingly liberal).