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  • The Fools: The outrage of political correctness on campus

    04/01/2003 7:37:12 PM PST · by Utah Girl · 8 replies · 236+ views
    NRO ^ | 4/1/2003 | John J Miller
    We have a frontrunner for next year's Campus Outrage Awards, also known as "Pollys," given each spring by the Collegiate Network in recognition of "political correctness, curricular decay, [and] violations of academic freedom and free speech." His name is Nicholas DeGenova, and last week this Columbia University professor wished "a million Mogadishus" upon U.S. troops in Iraq. That translates into 18 million dead American soldiers, most of them probably the same age as DeGenova's undergraduate students. The vile DeGenova will have to wait until next April Fools Day to pick up his Polly award. This year, however, he can congratulate...