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This past Tuesday, an open meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences played host to both nobility and farce. In an inspiring display of courage, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 stood before the full body of his colleagues and dared attack that sacred cow of the modern academy, known affectionately as multiculturalism, and known accurately as bunk...
...Mansfield's brave stand this week is not the first time he has walked in the face of conventional wisdom, and it will undoubtedly not be the last. But before you start frothing at the mouth and pronouncing your condemnations of the man, perhaps you should stop to reflect on the legitimacy of his message...
...They were three women, three liberals and three mediocrities," Mansfield said. Three recent Commencement speakers--Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Philipine President Corazon Aquino and former Irish President Mary R. Robinson--were thus summed up in a single, beautiful sentence. One can hardly argue with the fact that they are all liberal women, and a strong case can made for the charge of mediocrity. All are deserving of our admiration and respect, but it would be difficult to argue that Brundtland has made an indelible mark on the world...
...politically correct like to avoid absolute judgments, but Margaret Thatcher, Mansfield's recommendation for a future speaker, has surely had a greater historical impact than the three cited selections combined. Of course, today's students, immune to right-wing propaganda, no longer think winning the Cold War was all that important. Nor was rescuing Britain's ailing socialist economy a sufficiently compassionate enterprise to earn Maggie their respect. Still, in the spirit of pluralism, maybe Harvard should invite that heartless statesperson to say her piece...
...Expository Writing program, which Mansfield dubbed "P.C. to the core," a quick examination of the offerings affirms his characterization. In a mandatory program designed to hone the writing abilities of each incoming class, one would think an emphasis might be placed on the great maestros of the English language--Dickens, James, Twain, Austen, Woolf and Wharton...