ABSTRACT

First the Oscars, then the Tonys and Grammys, now the "Pollys"-the new Campus Outrage Awards for berserk political correctness. But the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative think tank based in Delaware, went to the trouble of thinking them up to honor what the American campus does better than any other institution: screw up its people with soul-crunching correctness. Sakren, a graduate of Juilliard who taught at Yale, was recruited from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival four years ago and put in charge of ASU's graduate acting program. He says he began to get the flavor of his new department when he overheard some female students coming out of a feminist drama class talking about the genetic inferiority of males. Sakren wasn't sure what he was supposed to have done to improve The Comedy of Errors, except maybe transform it into a symposium on domestic violence.