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Collegiate Network Announces Top 5 Campus Outrages: 6th Annual "Polly" Awards

Defenders of terrorism delivering lectures instructing students, "ItÕs easy to do a bombing." Vibrators sold at a university health center as a means of "affirming womenÕs sexuality." Therapeutic "reflection papers" to punish students convicted of serious crimes, including homicide and racist threats. These shocking incidents from institutions of higher education were recognized today in the Collegiate NetworkÕs 6th Annual Campus Outrage Awards. Popularly known as the "Pollys," these awards are given each year to universities to remind the public that political correctness, curricular decay, and violations of academic freedom and free speech remain an unfortunate reality throughout much of higher education.

"We created the Campus Outrage Awards to expose the excesses of college administrators and professors who misuse their authority to silence dissent and impose their own political agendas on unwilling students," says Collegiate Network president and former Domestic Policy Advisor to President Reagan, T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.

Read all the 2003 Polly Award recipients:

1. Duke University/Columbia University (tie): After spending 14 years in a federal prison for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1983, Laura Whitehorn lectured at Duke University where according to the Durham Herald Sun she advised the students, "ItÕs easy to do a bombing." Meanwhile, at Columbia, Professor Gayatri Spivak delivered, in flawless academic drivel, the following rationalization for suicide bombings: "Suicidal resistance is a message inscribed on the body when no other means will get through. It is both execution and mourning, for self and other." Next Award