My vote for most depressing news story of today would go to this one about hunger-striking students at Columbia university. Among the hunger strikers’ demands: more political correctness and multi-culti brainwashing of freshmen. And, guess what?—Columbias has caved!

Administrators at Columbia University threw a bone to the four famished students on a hunger strike yesterday, giving in to some of their lofty demands.
Columbia agreed to raise $50 million to beef up ethnic studies and expand programs for multicultural students, strike organizers said, but refused to budge on the protesters’ biggest demand—killing the school’s proposed expansion into Harlem. … Columbia’s concession will expand the school’s multicultural student center and expand the required freshman ethnic-studies class from a several hundred-student lecture to small seminar groups.
Administrators have also agreed to add diversity training to orientation programs for new faculty and hire five new ethnic-studies professors.