It's the Hypocrisy, Stupid

The latest act of community service fulfilled by "we're-so-liberal-we-make-Harvard-look-like-Pat-Buchanan" Northeastern University is to card everyone who wants to enter the Snell Library. The problem? Black kids! High-schoolers from the neighborhood, who doubtless cannot afford high-speed internet connections even if they can afford acomputer, stop in on their way home from school to check their email, surf, and occassionally do research. The "NU News" cited a spokeswoman for the university saying that on average "6 to 8 high school students" were in the library at a time, and the library just didn't have the resources to provide for so many non-students. FYI, there are a few hundred computers in the library, always in very high demand. Of course, NU's legally obliged to keep the joint open, since it's a repository of Federal records (this is where Big Government defeats Big Government). So there's a sign-in system for non-cardholders, and sign-inners can be monitored by university staff, and booted if they overstay their welcome. Never mind the profiling part - how did they know there were 6 to 8 non-students in the library on average? The fact that they're black and they look young. But I won't make a stink out of that; I don't have much of a problem with common-sense profiling for impersonal data as in this case. But I do want to take this opportunity to call NU's corrupt executive branch, who has been cutting the core educational budgets while revenues are rising, on to the carpet for it's jingoistic support of political correctness, and simultaneous elitist treatment of the local poor. Granted political correctness is an extremely elitist ideology, but the liberals here do pay lip service - and tuition $$$$$ - towards all kinds of feel-good programs and projects. I personally don't have a problem with keeping a library only for those who pay dearly for it, since most students at NU pay $30,000 a year for their education. However, the hypocrisy stinks to high heaven! Either become a capitalist, and fit your words to the bottom-line pragmatism we all know you follow; or let cashflow play second fiddle to the politically correct rhetoric that every Northeastern student is spoon-fed daily.