Responding To D’Souza

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Term Paper Title	Responding To D’Souza
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.34

Responding to D’Souza

     In D’Souza’s book Illiberal Education, he points out several specific
groups of students who received preferential treatment from educational
institutions.  Homosexuals, African-Americans, and women are three such
groups who have advantages in today’s educational system.  In this
argumentative essay I will point out the advantageous treatment these groups
are given and give reasons why this behavior should be curbed.
     First I would like to talk about how D’Souza explains how women
were given preferential treatment in a specific class at the University of
Washington in Seattle.  This is the story of Peter Schaub, who enrolled in a
Women’s Studies class in the late 1980’s.  As a male in the class, he was
clearly a minority student and was given a hard time by most of the students
and faculty, who were female.  Unfortunately for Peter, he had certain
misconceptions on the curriculum of the course.  Peter thought that Women’s
Studies would have something to do with women in history and their
influence on society.  In fact the course was based around the idea that men
have been oppressing women and that they should strike back at them in
anger.  Since Peter had no interest in learning how to masturbate with a
feather-duster, he strongly protested against the misconceptions the teachers
and tutors were trying to teach.  He was met with an uproar of disapproval
from the majority of the class, mostly female.  His teachers had him banned
from the class the next day and had campus police officers waiting at the
door to escort him away
     After several weeks of protesting to the campus administration, Peter
was allowed to return to class.  Although he had the right to attend class, he
was asked by the Associate Dean James Nelson to drop out of the class and
be given full credit for the course.
     This is one situation where the benefit of the doubt was given to
women because of the “pc” movement, “pc” being short for “politically
correct”.  D’Souza also mentions similar cases where this “pc” movement
has affected education for the worst.  This is the case of the controversial
change in administration Duke University made in the mid-1980.
     Duke saw an unusually high percentage of white professors teaching
their classes.  What the university did was establish a quota for all of the

departments. This was to incorporate at least twenty percent of black
professors into the department or suffer one of many consequences.  One of
them was grant re...

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