2004 Polly Awards

(Wilmington, Delaware) The Collegiate Network was formed to focus public awareness on the politicization of American college classrooms. The methods used include Internet reports of declines in educational standards and the annual recognition of the most outrageous examples of campus politicization, called the Polly Awards.

Yesterday, the Collegiate Network announced the co-winners of the 2004 Polly Award identifying, for the seventh consecutive year, the most outrageous politicization and double standards in higher education. In a tie for first place, the winners are:

Sex-Week at Yale
Yale University student sponsors �Sex Week at Yale� using Yale funds, Yale facilities and with the support of Yale faculty and administrators. Several of the events were co-sponsored by Wicked Pictures, an adult film company that provided one of the keynote speakers�porn star Devinn Lane.

Multicultural Porn at the University of California Santa Barbara
A University of California, Santa Barbara student received acclaim from professors and administrators for his Chicano Studies thesis on �Gay Men of Color in Porn.� The project was presented as part of the UCSB Multicultural Center�s tax-payer funded �Race Matters Series� in an effort to legitimize pornography as an academic pursuit.

It's been demanded historically that institutions of higher learning provide intellectual and leadership skills, but, in these two cases, the co-winners have veered from tradition. Yale and UC Santa Barbara have decided to promote sexual promiscuity and deviance.

A safe assumption is that most Americans would probably rather not have their tax dollars used to fund these activities.