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Saturday, March 31, 2001

It's a Jungle Out There in Academia

A Princeton University prof's idea of loving animals is having sex with the critters, the University of Oregon offers student financing of "how-to" guides on vandalism and arson and other forms of terrorism, and SUNY-Albany has OK'd a campus S&M club.

These are three of the five outrageous campus incidents that provoked the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) to give their annual Polly Awards to five institutes of so-called higher learning for providing last year's worst examples of out-of-control political correctness on American campuses.

Topping the list of winners for 2000 was Princeton University, which earned the distinction for tolerating the likes of one Dr. Peter Singer. Bioethicist Singer, the DeCamp Professor in the University Center for Human Values who is already infamous as the proponent of a woman's right to choose to off her living child if it is disabled or otherwise inconvenient to mommy and daddy's lifestyle, now wants people to feel free to bugger their pets - or be buggered by them.

Singer insists that our physical similarities with other mammals - mostly genital - are so strong that the taboo on bestiality stems not from physical differences but from "our desire to differentiate ourselves, erotically and in every other way, from animals."

He describes a charming vignette in support of his love-the-animals-every-which-way proposal.

"Who has not," he asks, "been at a social occasion disrupted by the household dog gripping the legs of a visitor and vigorously rubbing its penis against them? ... [I]n private not everyone objects to being used by her or his dog in this way, and occasionally mutually satisfying activities may develop."

Next on the list is the University of Oregon, which allows a wacked-out animal liberation cabal, specializing in "liberating" lab animals and destroying private property through vandalism and arson, to have an office at the university in Eugene despite the group's call for criminal terrorism such as arson against certain targets, including some university research professors.

The December 8 issue of the group's newspaper, the Insurgent, carried an eight-page insert titled: "The ALF Primer: Your Guide to Economic Sabotage and the Animal Liberation Front."

"First, you may want to decide what kind of establishment you want to target - a fur shop, a butcher shop, a factory farm or slaughterhouse, or maybe a fast food restaurant?" the piece notes. Detailed instructions follow on gluing locks, vandalizing vehicles, clogging toilets and committing arson.

"As dangerous as arson is, it is also by far the most potent weapon of direct action," says the Insurgent. "A simple way to burn a vehicle is to place a sheet or blanket on top or underneath and soak it in flammable liquid. ... If not using a time-delay device, try to light it from as far away as possible by lighting the end of a rolled up newspaper, flare or other torch-like object."

In an effort to be helpful to prospective campus terrorists, the group's paper included an insert on the facing page showing the names, home phone numbers and home addresses of some research professors, with the suggestion to "tell them how you feel about the 'research' they do." ISI notes that the university has failed to respond to this outrage in any way.

SUNY (State University of New York) in Albany earned its Polly with the establishment of New York State's first college-funded S&M club.

The so-called Power Exchange was founded by two coed students who report no objections from the administration. "The response has been great," one student told the local press. "When my brother found out, he was like, 'I can't believe you could do something like that,'" she said. "Now, he's kind of OK with it. The rest of my family has been very supportive." A university spokeswoman sums up the official attitude toward the Power Exchange: "As long as they abide by the student guidelines, they have a right to have their club officially recognized by the student association on campus and to be funded by the student association."

Temple University won a Polly for demonstrating its tolerance for opposing views by tossing a dissident in the booby hatch for daring to protest a campus play that portrayed Jesus as a practicing homosexual.

"When Temple University student Michael Marcavage protested against the theatrical depiction of Jesus as a homosexual, he was subjected to Soviet-style behavior modification: handcuffed and committed to a psychiatric ward. Objecting to the portrayal of Jesus as the 'king of queers' in the highly controversial play 'Corpus Christi,' the student received permission from the school to stage a counterproduction based on traditional Christian teachings. A week before the productions, Temple canceled the traditional play, allegedly for lack of money."

According to Marcavage's attorney, Brian Fahling, when Marcavage began to leave a meeting on the plays, thinking it was over, he was "pushed to the floor, then handcuffed and taken to the Temple University Hospital psychiatric ward ... and committed." The doctor evaluating him "saw no reason why he was committed," Fahling said, and discharged him. Marcavage filed suit against Temple in November 2000.

(As an aside, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton is currently staging the blasphemous play despite vigorous protests from lawmakers and outraged Christian groups.) Villanova University tied with the University of California at Berkley for the No. 5 spot on the Polly Awards roster.

When students at Villanova wanted to bring NRA president Charlton Heston to campus, the school administration did everything it could to make the actor's appearance an administrative nightmare, if not an impossibility. Even though Heston waived his standard $20,000-$30,000 speaking fee, Villanova refused to pick up the tab for his basic expenses, including security fees and hotel room, under the guise that Heston was "too controversial."

The Villanova Times, headed by Chris Lilik, was required to pay for extra security in anticipation of protesters, who were themselves financially backed by the school's own Center for Peace and Justice. Villanova funded protesters, whose presence required increased security, and then saddled the student group with the increased security costs.

At Berkeley, after UC-Berkeley's main campus daily, the Daily Californian, ran author David Horowitz's ad, "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery Is a Bad Idea - and Racist Too," radicals protested the decision to run the ad and stormed the paper's offices and did what such folks always do: issued a list of demands. They demanded an apology from the paper's editors and stole all the remaining newspapers from campus racks. The Daily Californian ran a formal apology that claimed the ad was full of "incorrect and blatantly inflammatory content" and even refused to officially report the theft to campus police.

T. Kenneth Cribb Jr., President of ISI, said, "We created the Campus Outrage Awards to widely disseminate instances of outrageous totalitarianism, the politicization of the college curriculum, and the insensitivity and bigotry of campus radicals. Many university deans and presidents deny the idea that political correctness exists and claim that critics of PC use exaggerated or outdated anecdotes. Year after year, the Pollys offer proof to the contrary."