Polly Awards follow up

Yesterday morning I reported on the 9th Annual Polly Awards. Campus Magazine and the Collegiate Network announced the "winners" of the 9th Annual Polly Awards, given to those oh-so "politically-correct" universities who love "diversity," but trample on the free speech rights of those they disagree with--mainly conservatives. The Pollys are also called the Campus Outrage awards.

First prize went to Yale University, which accepted former Mullah Omar aide Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi into a non-degree program despite having only the Afghan equivalent of a fourth grade education.

For more on the "Yale Taliban," visit Clint Taylor's Townhall blog, Nail Yale.

Close behind Yale was DePaul University.

Here's Steven Plaut's take in the Autonomist Blog:

Second prize went to DePaul "University" - (we use the quote marks due to our doubts as to whether or not DePaul is even an academic institution.) DePaul won for its campaign to suppress the free speech of Thomas Klocek while continuing to employ neo-nazi Holocaust denier Norman Finkelstein. DePaul's commissars, when not warring against the "Amerikan Empire," branded as "propaganda" a College Republican protest of a Ward Churchill speech on campus. DePaul college officials also shut down an affirmative action bake-sale sponsored by the campus conservative club. They then charged the club member who organized the event with "harassment."

The Washington Times has an article on the Pollys here. National Review Online's new blog, Phi Beta Cons has several entries on the awards. Jennifer Biddison at Townhall weighs in here, and don't forget Human Events Online, and The Point.

Finally, FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education today calls DePaul "The Nightmare That Keeps on Recurring."

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