It wasn’t in most of the article, mostly just the part I quoted which was clearly castigating the male only character of Math 55. That is why it stood out as out of place PC dripe to me.
While Harrison ultimately chooses to remain in the class, such conferences motivate several more students to drop, including the only two females: Cook, who had looked forward to taking the class, and Laura P. Starkston ’10.“The problem was that I wasn’t prepared to think that abstractly,” Cook says. “Gaitsgory pointed it out to me in our private conference. Eventually I just got the picture.”
The final course drop forms are dutifully submitted, finalizing the class roster: 45 percent Jewish, 18 percent Asian, 100 percent male. The tribe has spoken.
There is no PC moralizing here, just statement of facts.