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When David A. Plotz, in his lively opinion piece last spring "`Politically Correct' Thought Control" claimed that the left wing groups "have reached virtually identical liberal conclusions on what is `correct'," he was wrong. Most of the groups he singled out don't even have positions on the PC causes celebre...
What, after all, is the South Africa Solidarity Committee position on abortion? AIDS testing? The establishment of a women's center? Contrary to the conspiracy theories that Plotz's article could spawn, no grand meeting was held to determine the platform of the Campus Left...
This, it seems, is the guts of Plotz's argument: "The result of this campus activism and media bombardment [by just a few radicals] is that the only voice that gets heard at Harvard is the voice of the PC." Which means that "Harvard's sheeplike liberal majority is large enough and accepting enough of this PC ideology to stifle campus debate." In the end, the blame falls on the "PC crowd...
News Editor for this Issue: Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Night Editors: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Gregory B. Kasowski '93 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 Joshua W. Shenk '92 Eric S. Solowey '91 Arts Editor: Kelly A.E. Mason '92 David A. Plotz '92 Feature Editor: Melissa R. Hart '91 Sports Editor: Gary R. Shenk '92 Photo Editor: William H. Bachman '92 Business Editor: Timothy B. Paydos...
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