Posted on 04/14/2002 11:17:42 AM PDT by Temple Owl
Polly Wants an Outrage The Collegiate Network's fifth annual Polly Awards are out.
Even in war, wacky campus liberals don't disappoint.
by Stephen F. Hayes
"SEX CAN BE dangerous, especially when it involves toys. Wearing a three-foot, five-pound 'double dong' around his neck, Todd Wonders, a representative from Dvdadultempire.com, advised students to start small when it comes to anal penetration."
So began an article last fall on the front page of the Pitt News, a student newspaper at the University of Pittsburgh. The story went on to describe, in graphic detail and with the all-important accompanying photos, an event put on by the Rainbow Alliance, a campus gay group funded in part with Pitt student fees.
Wonders drew on his vast sexpertise to titillate the Pitt students. Pointing to the sex toy, Wonders instructed, "If you've never put anything in your ass before, you don't want to start with this."
You get the picture. When outraged Pitt alumni bombarded the school with protests, the Rainbow Alliance sought to clarify the purpose of the event in a letter to the editor the following day. "We thought this was important because many people don't understand the ease with which diseases are spread using sex toys . . . The presenters came prepared with statistics, useful facts and instructions on proper cleaning and care. It was this type of information that the presentation was meant to convey."
Of course it was. That's why Todd Wonders came in with the "double dong" around his neck.
Unfortunately, such absurdities are common on college campuses today--a fact that's underscored when you consider that for all of its silliness, the Pitt event won fifth place in this year's "Polly Awards." Each year, the Collegiate Network gives out the Pollys to recognize the most outrageous events on college campuses. And this year, drawing from a seemingly endless supply of campus inanity, the CN found four examples that they considered more disgraceful than the episode at Pitt.
To wit:
-Following the September 11 attacks, several conservative students at Tufts University repainted a cannon in the campus quad--following a long tradition--in red, white and blue. As one of the students guarded the work, he was attacked by hooded campus radicals, who painted over the patriotic display.
-San Diego State University punished an Arabic-speaking Ethiopian student who had the audacity to confront Saudi students celebrating the September 11 attacks.
-When President Bush promised to "hunt the terrorists from their holes," one professor at the University of North Carolina was reminded of "the vicious history of racial hatred that has preceded, stoked and been inflamed by nearly every one of this century's wars, from the Belgian Congo to Nazi Germany to the USSR to the US."
The winner, though, came from UC Berkeley, where campus radicals stole the entire press run (valued at $2,000) of Berkeley's conservative student newspaper, the California Patriot. The paper had published an expose on the Moviemiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), revealing, among many other things, that the group refers to whites as "gringos" and regularly publishes anti-Semitic rants on its website. When the Patriot filed a police report about the missing papers, several staff members were harassed, and some even received death threats. According to the Collegiate Network, the UC Berkeley administration, meanwhile, "stood idle."
Collegiate Network administrators suffer no illusions that their awards will end such idiocy, so they're constantly keeping track of the latest activities on campuses throughout the country. In that spirit, I'd like to draw their attention back to Pitt. Last Thursday, as part of "Pride Week," the university hosted a Miss Pitt Amateur Pageant in the student union. The drag queen competition was sponsored by, you guessed it, the Rainbow Alliance. (The host/hostess, Miss Gay Orlando, is quick to tell a reporter from the Pitt News that "drag" is no longer the preferred phrase; it's "the art of female impersonation.")
According to the Campus Women's Organization President Andrea DeChellis, the drag show "opens your eyes to things that are commonly trivialized."
Oh, right. It's educational.
Stephen F. Hayes is a staff writer at The Weekly Standard.
This kind of stuff is just sick. I'm still blaming William Jefferson Clinton for lowering our kids into a pit of slime.
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