ABSTRACT
Political correctness has become part of our culture and continues to shape people's thoughts; it continues to determine how they speak, how judges adjudicate, how professors allow their academic freedom to be curtailed, and whom universities admit. The university was told, even lectured—by editorialists, journalists, students, and other citizens in letters-to-the-editor—about the importance of freedom of expression and of academic freedom. There is a continuing need to reflect upon these practices and to introduce students to the issues in a thoughtful and critical manner; in short, it is imperative to teach courses on political correctness. Kenneth Westhues, in his book Eliminating Professors, very ably analyzes the role that authors exposure of the admission of mentally retarded students to the university played in authors later battles with personal computer on campus. Only psychology students enrolled in the honours program could be admitted and the readings had to reflect that limitation.
