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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (18919)7/3/2006 3:06:18 PM
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PAYING A PRICE FOR PC PIQUE

NEW YORK POST
Editorial
July 3, 2006

Someone finally put a price on political correctness:

$115 million.

That's the tidy sum that Harvard won't be getting because its PC-obsessed faculty drove the school's president, Larry Summers, out of office.

Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison pledged to give Harvard some $115 million. It would have been one of the most generous gifts ever given by a single individual to an academic institution.

But Ellison announced last week that he was rescinding his offer.

Why? The shabby way Summers - to whom Ellison had promised the money - had been treated.

Summers - who served as Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton - is no conservative. But he still ran afoul of the campus' hard-left faculty on several occasions.

For one, he insisted that tenured black studies professor Cornel West actually spend some time teaching.

Imagine that.

West complained about "lack of respect" and departed for Princeton.

The final straw was Summers' observation at an academic conference about the preponderance of men in the hard science and math fields. He urged the attendees to think outside the box and consider the possibility that men were different than women.

Cue a wave of PC outrage: Academic freedom, it seems, no longer stretches so far as to permit the questioning of feminist dogma. Summers was obliged to backtrack and grovel for forgiveness.

By then, it was too late - the insurgency against Summers had begun.

He finally resigned.

Well, the faculty got their pound of flesh - even over the strenuous objections of students.

But the damage to Harvard has been immense.

To its reputation, of course.

And now to its bottom line.

Yes, it has one of the largest endowments of any university in the country.

But $115 million would have been the largest single gift in Harvard's history.

Will the PC faculty learn from this calamitous misjudgment?

Don't count on it.

nypost.com
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