[The_Reader_David]

No, they don't. They still sound just like they did back in the 80's when I was a math grad student there. My best friend (a physics grad student who TAed for the math dept his first three years), one of his professors and I went to disrupt a 'racism awareness workshop' (an event held so politically correct white girls could have their requisite does of guilt) by introducing rational argument.

It is one of my few political triumphs that I effectively won the day. I argued that racial prejudice was functionally gone in the US, but that cultural prejudice remained. By the end of the session--in which they had to pull the administrator who was running the thing out of her session and send her to mine to counter my arguments--we were all talking about culture not race.

(I actually wonder whether 'anti-racism' originally turned into 'multiculturalism' at Penn, and whether I unwittingly had a hand in the name change.)

[Intolerant in NJ]

(I actually wonder whether 'anti-racism' originally turned into 'multiculturalism' at Penn, and whether I unwittingly had a hand in the name change.)...very possible - I was a grad student (Psych) there twenty years before you and before all this PC stuff got underway, and it's been sad to watch Penn's deterioration as it became one of the leaders in the fatuous pursuit of such silliness - maybe the school's only point of pride is that Professor Alan Kors teaches there (at least I think he still does); his book "Shadow University" and the organization (FIRE?) he helps run certainly helped to expose some of the real dangers and unfairness of the PC mess.....

Anyhow I'm convinced that I'll never run our of valid reasons for not contributing in any way to alma mater......