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...underscore those predictions, technology watchers are being treated this month to an unprecedented burst of multimedia-related activity. Last week representatives of more than 70 high-tech firms, led by Microsoft and Tandy, gathered at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to unveil the Multimedia PC (MPC), a souped-up personal computer that can play games, video and interactive programs stored on silver discs that look like audio CDs. Prices start at $2,800 -- or about $800 more than an ordinary PC. One week earlier, former archrivals Apple and IBM revealed plans to start a joint...
...anti-PC crusade is being led by the likes of Dinesh D'Souza, a former staffer at the rightwing Dartmouth Review who spent the 1980s as a domestic policy analyst for the Reagan Administration...
Lost in the anti-PC hysteria is the fact that women and minorities on today's campuses face an atmosphere in which bigotry and discrimination are openly tolerated. Recent studies, for instance, show that victims of physical assaults are two to four times more likely to be gays and lesbians; that one in four women is the victim of rape or attempted rape while on campus; and that racist incidents, including physical assaults on minority students, were reported at 174 campuses...
...Left must respond to the right-wing hysteria by exposing the anti-PC crusaders for the opportunists they really are, interested only in rolling back the gains of the civil rights movement and stifling dissent...
...encourage students to get involved in the efforts to put an end to the anti-PC crusade. Anne Sydor, GSAS