Orgies? Sex Toys? Death Threats? Terrorist Sympathizers? It's time for the "Pollys"
The Top Five Campus Outrages of 2002!
Death Threats at Berkeley! Hooded left-wing thugs at Tufts! School credit for orgies and strip clubs at Berkeley! School-funded "sex toy" demonstrations at Pitt!
WILMINGTON, DE--A host of absurd, bizarre, and outrageous escapades on America's campuses this academic year demonstrate that political correctness is alive and well. The most outrageous incidents earned "Polly Awards" as a part of the Collegiate Network's Fifth Annual Campus Outrage competition.
"Pollys" are given each year on April Fools Day to highlight the noxious tendencies of radical faculty and students at the nation's colleges. The University of California at Berkeley, source of so much of the 1960s' strangeness, won two Pollys this year-one for multicultural hooliganism, the other for lewd course material. Meanwhile, at Tufts University, hooded leftists assaulted a conservative student. At San Diego State and at the University of North Carolina, campus administrators blamed campus patriots and America for the terrorist attacks of September 11.
The 2002 winners are:
1. University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley conservative newspaper faces censorship and death threats, suffers robbery
On February 25, student radicals broke into a Berkeley student office, stole the entire $2,000 press run of the conservative newspaper The California Patriot, and then threatened the editors with death when they filed a police report.
Students believe the thieves were angry about a Patriot investigative report about a radical student group, the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or MEChA. The Patriot article revealed that the Hispanic group repeatedly refers to white people as "gringos" in its literature and calls for revolutionary liberation of the "bronze continent by the bronze people." MEChA retorted that the Patriot article was propaganda.
After the controversial Patriot article was published, staff members were harassed, and a few even received death threats. The next day thieves broke into the office and stole the press run. The university chancellor paid lip service, calling the incidents "unconscionable behavior," but copies of the Patriot were reported stolen twice in the last year and conservative speakers were shouted down twice last year while university administrators stood idle.
The sweetener that secured the top Polly Award for Berkeley was the revelation that MEChA-which receives $20,000 in university funds-maintains a racist website (www.aztlan.org) containing anti-Semitic rhetoric worthy of a white supremacist organization.
I suppose when the illegal Mexican gardners they hire refuse to mow the lawn down at the
"County Club" Biff & Muffy might become irritated...