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...Center for the Study of Popular Culture (CSPC), a conservative Los Angeles-based think tank, has placed advertisements in several university newspapers, including The Crimson, decrying professors' use of the book I, Rigoberta Menchu...
...Menchu, a Quiche Mayan, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for this autobiographical work, which details the terrors perpetrated against her family during the Guatemalan insurrection...
...January, Middlebury College anthropologist David Stoll released a book called Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans that reexamines and challenges many of Menchu's claims...
Things would be radically different. In terms of academics, courses on Plato, Aristotle and other "dead white males" would be replaced by studies of the ocuvre of Rigoberta Menchu. In residential life, we would have houses devoted to every possible ethnicity and sexual orientation. The dining halls would serve junk food instead of their nominally healthy offerings. (I admit that this last example may actually undermine my argument...
...name to add to its honor roll of former guests, which includes Bill Clinton, Jack Kemp, Ann Richards, Nobel Winner Rigoberta Menchu and yes, even Newt Gingrich Now they can pencil in Barbra Streisand. Unfortunately, she's rain on the IOP's parade of consistent cutting-edge political relevance...