Thank you Colby College for the best laugh I’ve had in 2009.
From the excellent alumni magazine, Racial Controversy on Campus
A series of racially and culturally insensitive events stirred controversy on campus this fall, precipitating a sit-in in Pulver Pavilion and a series of demands presented to the Student Programming Board, the administration, and to students. Early in the semester some students objected to a luau-themed party that they considered insensitive to Hawaiian culture.
A culturally insensitive luau? Please. Other indignities on campus this fall included,
…a show by the Campaign Comedy Trail, a troupe hired for what was characterized in advance as political satire but deteriorated into jokes based on racial and religious stereotypes.
Jokes based on racial and religious stereotypes? Oh the humanity. Every comedian since Soupy Sales would be out of business if the Colby PC police had their way.
Nice to see that the $46,000 annual tab is addresing the most pressing social and cultural issues of our times. These kids are brainwashed to think, hey, that’s what we are supposed to do…sit ins, protests, fight the man, even if he is a faux Hawaiian one. I know. They thought the same thing in twenty years ago when I was there. My kids are not getting witin 100 miles of a liberal arts campus.
UPDATE: An e-mailer adds, “How about a little perspective? This is grievance mongering!” Good line, and good point. How about it?
