ABSTRACT
Richard Heffner's weekly interview program for public television, "The Open Mind," has always been a little island of intelligent discussion where public issues are quietly considered without regard to the demands of sponsors or even of audience ratings. And the author wants to focus, as on several other programs, on the winds of change that have blown rather fiercely through even major American universities in recent years, and that cannot simply be dismissed as only "an academic matter" by those not immediately or intimately involved with the life of the campus. Indeed, what is deemed "politically correct" today—at Stanford or Michigan, or Duke, or Harvard, or wherever—may not make all that much difference to most thoughtful viewers right now. But that something, anything at all, could be labelled "PC" by today's university students, or faculty, or administrators, is what may come to haunt everyone.
