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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT, RE:

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT, RE: RACISM AT BRANDEIS: From Harvey Silverglate and Alan Kors' indispensable book "The Shadow University":

It was the tenth year of [Sheldon Hackney of UPenn's] presidency, and he obsessed about race relations throughout. If some halfwit- whether racist or provocateur- scribbled an epithet on a stairwell, the campus would gratify the miscreant by acting as if a fascist night had descended. During freshman orientations, students were taught at "diversity education" seminars to perceive the campus as a hotbed of racism.

Sound familiar, anyone? Just as "Bonfire of the Vanities" is required reading for anyone moving to New York as an adult, "Shadow University" should be issued to every freshman who starts at any top college.
(Found via Amazon's awesome new "Search Inside the Book" feature)

UPDATE: The student who made the offending flier last week has apologized.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Here's a great Justice op-ed, deservedly mocking those who walked out on the recent Daniel Pipes speech as "left-wing fascists."

Posted by Stephen Silver at November 25, 2003 05:09 PM