The theft of 14,000 copies of the student newspaper by black students unhappy with a white columnist went unpunished at Penn. Some of the steam has gone out of campus speech codes because of recent court decisions that have declared them unconstitutional. But political correctness and multiculturalism is still rampant inside some classrooms. Even Mother Jones magazine is having second thoughts. The critics of course content object to some of the sensitivity training programs and techniques that are in vogue on the multicultural campus.
Many universities now require PC sensitivity exposure of some sort for incoming freshmen.
And when these programs favor manipulative psychological techniques over honest discussion, they also undermine the intellectual purposes of higher education and anger those subjected to them. An undergraduate at the time, at least in California, could usually find a sensitivity course in the business school. These revolved around personal rather than political sensitivity. In sociology, a race relations class might sponsor trips to the ghetto, where poverty program militants would harangue and titillate white sorority sisters by using foul language. Ethical questions should be raised when such techniques are applied with a political agenda.