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Those of us most influenced by popular culture, psychedelia and the sexual revolution felt that the universities had lost touch with reality. We wanted to end their authoritarian control of our private lives. And we were militant about free speech, which had inspired the first student demonstrations at Berkeley...
...current political correctness on campus is that its proponents have managed to convince their students and the media that they are authentic Sixities radicals. The idea is preposterous. Political correctness, with its fascist speech codes and puritanical sexual regulations, is a reactionary reversal of Sixties progressive values. except for Berkeley sociologist Todd Gitlin, not a single Sixties political activist of my age holds a tenured professorship at any of the elite schools, coast to coast...
Economic analysis should be the first principle of authentic leftism. Phony, obfuscatory, elitist French theory became the ticket to ride for an amoral, overpaid, overpraised coterie that is incestuously interconnected from Berkeley and Duke to Princeton and Harvard. These days, its pashas pretend to be doing "cultural studies," an amateurish mishmash of this and that, without scholarly command of any area...
...Cryobank--with offices near Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley--recruits college age donors, who are paid $35 per sample. Each sample then produces several vials of semen, which are sold to infertile couples for $135-$165 each/ Vials can be ordered by catalog, using a toll-free number, and are shipped overnight. Indeed, ordering sperm from the Cryobank isn't all that different from ordering clothes from J. Crew...
...Cryobank takes full advantage of this carefree attitude among cash-strapped college kids in search of an easy buck. And it sells infertile couples on the knowledge that their "high-quality" sperm comes from men educated at Harvard, Stanford, MIT and UC-Berkeley...