Posted on 04/04/2006 11:43:25 AM PDT by JZelle
The Collegiate Network has given its annual award to highlight the negative influence of political correctness to Yale University for enrolling a former Taliban official with a fourth-grade education. "Yale pursued [Sayed Rahmatullah] Hashemi's admission in the name of that sacred cow, diversity, which now appears to extend not only to people of various sexes, creeds, races, ethnicities, sexual preferences and practices, but also to enemy combatants who make war upon the United States," the conservative group said. The winner of the second-place 2006 Campus Outrage Award, also called the Polly Award -- "Polly" being an abbreviation of the term "political correctness" -- was DePaul University, which suspended adjunct professor Thomas Klocek, without a hearing, after he attempted to debate students handing out pro-Palestinian literature. The group also said DePaul criticized campus College Republicans after the group organized a protest against liberal activist Ward Churchill, who was delivering a speech at the university. Mr. Churchill, a University of Colorado ethnic studies professor, last year wrote that the U.S. deserved to be attacked on September 11, 2001.
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The irony is that "enemies of the United States" is not even close to an under-represented group at ANY university.
THAT speaks volumes about Yale's intentions....
I've not seen any info on how this guy got a student visa...anyone know? That seems just as much an outrage as Yale giving him a student slot.
Sue
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