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June 9th, 2003, 11:45 AM
This is an excerpt from the weekly PC Patrol column
"Higher Education
The University of California, Riverside, wins this week’s WTF? Award.
An article in the student newspaper, The Highlander, picked up by Opinionjournal.com, chronicles a day in the life of its student senate as it goes about its pressing business.
First on the agenda is funding for safety measures for women of color. (Safety is a racial issue?) A group called the Student Coalition for Peace wants a safe house on campus to protect the aforementioned women of color from the campus police department and the Greek community. No indication as to whether these women of color fear marauding fraternities or aggressors from the Aegean.
The other pressing order of business was the content of a mural to be placed in the student commons. One Elisa Haro, described as academic affairs director, said the Shakespearean actors in the mural reminded her of pilgrim invaders and gave her the willies. Others expressed concern that the cranes in the picture were white (the senate demanded they be changed to cranes of color) and that there was no homosexual couple depicted in the scene (one would be added).
No word on whether a safe house for the cranes of color was to be added as well."
You can view the entire article here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,88871,00.html
"Higher Education
The University of California, Riverside, wins this week’s WTF? Award.
An article in the student newspaper, The Highlander, picked up by Opinionjournal.com, chronicles a day in the life of its student senate as it goes about its pressing business.
First on the agenda is funding for safety measures for women of color. (Safety is a racial issue?) A group called the Student Coalition for Peace wants a safe house on campus to protect the aforementioned women of color from the campus police department and the Greek community. No indication as to whether these women of color fear marauding fraternities or aggressors from the Aegean.
The other pressing order of business was the content of a mural to be placed in the student commons. One Elisa Haro, described as academic affairs director, said the Shakespearean actors in the mural reminded her of pilgrim invaders and gave her the willies. Others expressed concern that the cranes in the picture were white (the senate demanded they be changed to cranes of color) and that there was no homosexual couple depicted in the scene (one would be added).
No word on whether a safe house for the cranes of color was to be added as well."
You can view the entire article here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,88871,00.html