|
But then one of the obscure policy shops
that abound in Washington, the Committee for Ethnic Piety, filed suit
against Harvard for noncompiance. The proximate cause was an article in
the Harvard Crimson, the school newspaper, about a course called Math
55, the hardest math course at the univrsity and thus, Harvard liked to
think, in America. The students in Math 55, reported the Crimson, were
45 percent Jewish, 18 percent Asian, and 100 prcent male. The class
didn't, said the Committee for Ethnic Piety, look like America.
|
| “
|
After a laborious search the
university discovered Wunxputl, a member of the Tloxyproctyl tribe of
the Amazon Basin, consisting of twelve people who lived on yams and the
flesh of the Three-Toed Sloth. Wunxputl was at Wellesley, where he
served in a minor administrative position that had no responsibilities.
He had been brought there seven years earlier by the anthropology
department, so it could atone for White Guilt. It didn't matter that
Wellesley was guilty of nothing. The atonement was a pleasant form of
narcissism, allowing the faculty to congratulate themselves on their
moral purity.
Harvard arranged with
Wellesley to borrow Wunxputl for three minutes every seven years, which
it had calculated would satisfy the demands of ethnic proportionality.
Justice, at last, had been achieved.
[Fred On Everything
Cont]
|
” |
It's
hard to tell with this lot what's real, and what's satire isn't
it?
|
skoonj
|
