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> THE DIRTY DOZEN
> America's Worst College Courses
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> As the school year begins, Accuracy in Academia releases its Dirty
> Dozen worst college courses in America. After surveying the course
> catalogs of America’s top schools, Accuracy in Academia has found an
> extensive array of classes that range from the frivolous to the
> politically motivated. As the new millennium approaches, professors
> continue to cling to the same tired, politically correct themes that
> they’ve been pushing for years.
>
> * Oberlin College’s Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare seeks to engage
> in “critiques, resistant readings, and reinterpretations” of the Bard.
> It seems Shakespeare is only worth reading when he is transformed by
> campus feminists. This course promises to “emphasize how gender must be
> understood in relation to history, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and
> other significant social categories.”
>
> * Berkeley’s Lesbian and Gay Detective Fiction “will give the students
> and instructor an excuse to spend time during a busy semester reading
> and discussing a pile of detective novels.” Students will examine how
> “the outlaw sexuality of the protagonists plays out against the outlaw
> activities of the antagonists.”
>
> * Bucknell’s Green Utopias introduces students to “literary utopias and
> the cultural writings of various ecological movements offering
> alternative concepts to the increasing destruction of nature.”
> Greenpeace would be proud.
>
> * Women, Gender Identity, and Ethnicity at U. of Northern Arizona will
> discuss “important women’s issues,” such as “witches” and “fairy tales.”
> What better way to prepare for the workforce than to learn how to
> construct a “mini Welfare budget” and role play as a single mother and
> have it go towards 10% of your grade? Exploitation of women in rock
> videos and advertising will be explored as well.<Picture>Is Captain Kirk
> worthy of study?
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>
> * Star Trek and Religion at Indiana promises to go beyond just a bunch
> of Trekkies sitting around admiring Captain Kirk and Bones. It discusses
> how religion is portrayed on Star Trek and delves into the writings of
> “critics who hope for the demise of religion,” and those who believe
> “religion can be re-imagined in mystical or cosmic terms.” Purists
> beware! The course studies Next Generation and Voyager, in addition to
> the original series.
>
> * Is Black Marxism any different from plain old Marxism? This black
> studies course at UC-Santa Barbara teaches so. Although Marx had very
> little to say about sociology, anthropology, black studies (he often
> used the “n” word and expressed hatred toward blacks), literature, etc.,
> Marxist academics hell bent on preaching his failed ideas inject his
> “ism” into most academic fields—even when it has no relevance.
>
> * Gender, Jocks, and Justice: Title IX and American Education is an
> offering from Dartmouth’s women’s studies program. Predictably, the
> course description reveals it as advocacy masking itself as education.
> “Is female accomplishment in sport a direct threat to men?” the course
> asks.
>
> * In Issues in Afro-American Development. Politics, Economics, and
> Development: Affirmative Action at Michigan, the instructor works to
> “develop the language to articulate affirmative action as a right and
> not a benefit” at this school currently being sued for racial
> discrimination against whites. Black conservatives like Ward Connerly
> and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will be exposed as “two major
> figures against affirmative action,” not as leaders for equality under
> the law. “In addition Proposition 209 (the initiative that eliminated
> preferences in California’s university system) will be discussed as an
> important watershed in the anti-civil rights movement.” The anti-civil
> rights movement?
>
> * Penn’s Feminist Revisions of Fairy Tales and Myths “addresses
> feminist critiques and rewritings of patriarchal mythologies.”
> Everything from the “nuclear family to the Disney film industry” is
> assailed as “infantilizing” women and “erasing her sexuality.”
>
> * Gay and Lesbian Perspectives in Pop Music at UCLA focuses on
> “lesbians, gay men, and members of other sexual minorities as creators,
> performers, and audience members.” Accuracy in Academia recommends this
> course to students who have no career aspirations and enjoy classes
> devoid of intellectual challenges.
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>
> * White Racism at UConn—What better way to promote racial harmony than
> to blanket a whole group with the accusation of universal racism? White
> racism, the course claims, is “the central and enduring social
> principle” on which modern societies are organized.
>
> * Amid growing political fervor over whether the census should actually
> count everybody, as is required by the Constitution, or employ
> statistical sampling, as liberal politicians have demanded, Counting
> Everybody: Census 2000 at USC takes a decidedly partisan tone. The
> course complains that “Congress is demonstrating that the national
> census is ultimately about politics” because it has decided to adhere to
> the Constitution. “For the first time in history,” the course declares,
> “the “Census Bureau may be prevented from incorporating the best
> available statistical methods” and labels the yet to be taken count, a
> “failed census.
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> ‘98-'99 Politically Correct Top Ten List
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> As the sun sets on the 1998-1999 school year, Accuracy in Academia releases its
> annual top ten list of political correctness on campus. From dispatching guards
> to bust up speaking events by politically incorrect speakers to looking the
> other way when massive newspaper thefts occur, campus administrators continue to
> show us why higher education is the most intellectually intolerant institution
> in society.
>
> 10. Intolerant Tolerance An entire press run of the Georgetown Academy was
> destroyed after it dared to criticize a university program that would compel
> professors, administrators, and resident assistants to place inverted pink
> triangles on their doors at the nation’s oldest Catholic university. University
> President Leo O’Donovan, S.J., stayed silent over the matter for two weeks,
> finally issuing a statement that was interpreted by many to be a condemnation of
> the newspaper! O’Donovan defended free speech only “in accordance with our
> Speech and Expression Policy,” which states that “expression that is grossly
> offensive on matters such as…sexual preference is inappropriate in a university
> community.” Several editors of the campus daily cheered on the thefts of the
> rival paper.
>
> 9. Banned in Boston Feminist Mary Daly’s 20-year practice of banning men in her
> classrooms was exposed to a national audience when two male students sued after
> being told that they could not enroll in her courses because of their sex. Daly
> claims that the attempt to open up her class to all students is really an
> attempt by the “right wing” and the “patriarchy” to attack “the rights of women
> and minorities so that white male power reigns.” Despite the discrimination,
> Daly is still on BC’s payroll.
>
> 8. Dartmouth Grinches Steal Christmas Administrators at Dartmouth banned a
> campus group from giving Christmas presents to other students through the campus
> mail after the gifts had been bought, wrapped, and ready to mail. Scott Brown,
> the school’s dean of religion, stated that giving Christmas presents is an act
> “that a large number of students will take offense at.” Bad publicity forced
> Dartmouth to finally permit the students to send the Christmas gifts—in
> January!
>
> 7. Erasing Marriage Marriage is considered so objectionable at New York City’s
> Barnard College that a pamphlet merely mentioning the institution provoked more
> than 300 people to sign a petition that labeled the publication, “heterosexist.”
> The offending passage read: “Studies show that, at a greater rate than other
> female college graduates, women’s college graduates also marry and have
> children.” Sophomore Sharon Herbert, president of the Barnard student group
> Lesbians and Bisexuals in Action (LABIA) pronounced, “My agenda is to make
> people recognize that this doesn’t represent Barnard’s goals or the goals of its
> students.” The school’s administration apparently agrees, as it removed the
> “offensive” statement and issued an apology.
>
> 6. Free Speech for Me At Syracuse, activists defended the burning of Bibles to
> protest a speech by Pat Buchanan, while attempting to deny the conservative
> leader his right to speak. The event was disrupted with shouting, a “kiss-in,”
> and threats to burn down the chapel where the event was held.
>
> 5. Brandeis v. Brandeis At Brandeis, two student senators were caught in
> separate incidents destroying large quantities of Freedom Magazine, the
> conservative publication on campus. Instead of condemning the student senators
> for destroying property and limiting what other students can read, the school
> decided to bring the editor of Freedom Magazine up on charges for writing about
> what happened. The student government, including the two senators who admitted
> destroying copies of the publication, took away the paper’s funding earlier this
> month. To say that the great exponent of free speech Justice Brandeis is rolling
> in his grave is an understatement.
>
> 4. I, Rigoberta Menchu, Liar Rigoberta Menchu, Shakespeare of the multicultural
> canon, was exposed as a fraud and a liar by Middlebury College Anthropologist
> David Stoll. This doesn’t seem to bother many professors, who still require
> their students to read the embroidered tale. The Nobel Prize winner’s narrative,
> I, Rigoberta Menchu, contained such chapters as “Rigoberta Denounces Marriage
> and Motherhood” and reported that the typical poor Central American bought into
> every faddish ideology exalted on campus—a tale professors were more than
> willing to believe. Menchu claimed that she was unschooled and illiterate (she
> attended an exclusive Catholic boarding school), that her family were peasants
> oppressed by the government (they were landowners oppressing other peasants),
> and that her family members died in ways that turned out to be untrue. A brother
> that she claimed was killed by the “right-wing” has even turned up alive and
> well in Guatemala. Never allowing truth to get in the way of a politically
> correct story, academics continue to teach her 1982 hoax, I, Rigoberta Menchu,
> as if it were fact. “This controversy does not inauthenticate Menchu’s book,”
> explained Timothy Brook, a professor at Stanford whose views are shared by
> countless academics at virtually every elite school. “The controversy not only
> will not lead me to cut the book from the reading list, but might in fact induce
> me to move it up from secondary reading to required text.”
>
> 3. Killing Newborns, Yes; Eating Hamburgers, No An academic who stamps his
> imprimatur on infanticide has been hired by Princeton’s “Orwellian” Center for
> Human Values. “Beings who cannot see themselves as entities with a future cannot
> have any preference about their own future existence,” theorizes Peter Singer in
> his popular textbook Practical Ethics. “It is speciesist to judge that the life
> of a normal adult member of our species is more valuable than the life of a
> normal adult mouse,” the professor opines. Professor Singer begins teaching
> undergraduates next semester.
>
> 2. No Place at the Table Columbia University President George Rupp dispatched a
> team of security guards to keep students interested in a conservative conference
> from meeting on campus. Participants in Accuracy in Academia’s “A Place at the
> Table: Conservative Ideas in Higher Education” learned that only liberals have a
> place at Columbia’s table when their meeting was kicked off-campus and forced to
> reconvene in a park. This is in spite of the fact that a contract had been
> signed, the meeting space had been paid for, and the event had been planned
> three months in advance. A mob of activists protested the event which featured
> Ward Connerly, and shouted down author Dinesh D’Souza as he attempted to speak
> on a Morningside Park overlook. Chanting “Ha! Ha! You’re Outside, We Don’t Want
> Your Racist Lies,” demonstrators held up signs bragging of their accomplishment,
> which read ACCESS DENIED and WE WIN: RACISTS NOT ALLOWED AT COLUMBIA. “This is
> an alcove where homeless people sleep and piss,” student Franklin Amoo stated.
> “I’ll do whatever needs to be done [to stop the conference] in order to make
> sure they know their sentiments are not shared.” Salmon Rushdie, Khalid
> Muhammed, and Angela Davis have all spoken on the New York campus recently
> without “security” concerns trumping free speech rights. Yet the only instance
> of a conservative event on the campus in recent memory elicits a ban handed down
> by the school’s president, an outspoken advocate of racial preferences.
>
> 1. NAMBLA in the Classroom Cornell University lashed out at Accuracy in Academia
> for criticizing “The Sexual Child,” a course the school offered its
> undergraduates which required pro-pedophilia readings and the viewing of
> pictures of naked children. One assigned essay complains, “Like communists and
> homosexuals in the 1950s, boy lovers are so stigmatized that it is difficult to
> find defenders for their civil liberties, let alone erotic orientation.”
> According to the author, opposition to “cross-generational encounters” has “more
> in common with ideologies of racism than with true ethics.” Cornell Professor
> Ellis Hanson, the instructor of “The Sexual Child,” told Accuracy in Academia
> that “the erotic fascination with children is ubiquitous…. One can hardly read a
> newspaper or turn on a television without feeling obliged to accept, study, and
> celebrate it.” The aim of his course, he states, is to “undermine preconceived
> notions about what a child is, what sexuality is, and what it means to love or
> desire a child.” Among the screeds assigned to students in the class are “How to
> Bring Your Kids Up Gay,” “Policing ‘Perversions,’” “The Hysteria of Child
> Pornography and Pedophilia,” and “Child-Loving.”
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>
> See the '97-'98 Politically Correct Top Ten
@ http://www.academia.org/97-98topten.html
> ©1999, Accuracy In Academia
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