Here is a revealing story about the thin-skinned administration at Johns Hopkins University.
The school has given student fee money to the Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance (DSAGA), which used some of the funds to host a campus presentation by a speaker whose talk was the stuff of smut magazines and videos. (As Murray Sperber says, students these days need plenty of “beer and circus” to keep them interested in college; this was part of the circus — a politically correct part.)
Bad enough for a university to squander funds on such non-educational junk, but when the Carrollton Record, JHU’s conservative student newspaper covered the event and wrote about it critically, the JHU administration blew up like Krakatoa, seizing all copies of the offending issue.
This tells us quite a lot about the state of higher education in the US.
