Posted on 12/25/2003 9:50:19 AM PST by JohnHuang2
10. Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA) administration officials censored a conservative student group’s flyer advertising a Young America’s Foundation organized lecture because the word “hate” was used on the flyer. The flyer in question featured the topic of guest speaker Dan Flynn’s speech, “Why the Left Hates America,” which is also the title of his book. The administration first approved the flyer then rescinded the approval after some professors purportedly complained of the use of the word “hate.” Furthermore, in a letter obtained by the Foundation, Gonzaga’s Office of Student Activities informed the conservative student group that a complaint was made against the group because some individuals felt “the Left Hates…” printed on the flyer was “discriminatory.” The letter did not identify who raised objections to the flyer.
9. Park Ridge elementary school officials in Nampa, Idaho told an 11-year-old student to stop wearing his patriotic military theme T-shirt to school. The T-shirt depicts a monument at the Fort Lewis military base in the state of Washington. It shows “Iron Mike” hoisting a rifle with a star in the background. After public pressure, school officials reversed their decision and admitted the T-shirt did not fit under the school’s policy prohibiting clothing depicting guns or gangs.
8. Students at Smith College, an all-female school in Massachusetts, voted to remove all feminine pronouns from the school constitution and replace them with gender-neutral ones. The editing of the constitution is part of an effort to make transgender students feel more welcome on the campus.
7. The president of the University of Arizona sent out a formal letter to the class of 2003 stating that tortillas will not be allowed at their commencement. Throwing tortillas is a tradition at the university’s graduation ceremony, but the university president thought the tradition was disrespectful to many of the school’s Hispanic and American Indian community members. Members of the Chicano/Hispano Student Affairs (CHSA) organization said they know the tradition is celebratory and not meant to offend.
6. A group of teachers and parents at Jefferson Elementary School in Berkeley, California is pushing to rename the school because Thomas Jefferson was a slaveholder. Supporters of the name change say that it is insensitive to leave the name of a slaveholder on a building with a large black student population.
5. A 14-year-old New Jersey student was suspended for five days for drawing a picture of a stick figure U.S. Marine shooting a Taliban fighter. School officials said the student was being punished for the drawing, that it was “highly inappropriate,” and the school took it “very seriously.” The student’s dad and step-dad are in the military.
4. The Roger Williams University (RI) administration froze funding and attacked a conservative campus organization for advocating diversity of thought through the group’s publication, The Hawk’s Right Eye. The university’s president, Roy Nirschel, sent an email to all students and faculty denouncing the paper and claiming the organization flirted with racism and “crossed seriously over the lines of propriety.” He went on to state that while the university affirms “the right of campus organizations to hold different points of view and to disagree, the university will not condone publications that create a hostile environment for our students and community” and added that the university is “too busy for hate.” Student activist Jason Mattera says the harassment by administration officials began when his group published articles in their newspaper countering attacks on Christianity, freedom of association, and diversity of thought made by two university sponsored guest speakers this fall. The guest speakers were Judy Shepard, mother of slain homosexual Matthew Shepard, and James Dale, a gay man excluded from the Boy Scouts. Shepard stated during her Welcome Week speech that “churches are damaging us as a society. They don’t allow us to grow.” Dale castigated the Boy Scouts and trivialized its right of free association.
3. A professor at Citrus College in Glendora, California forced students in her Speech 106 class, a required course, to write anti-war letters to President Bush and penalized their grades after some refused. When several students asked if they could write letters supportive of Bush’s policies instead, the professor refused and informed the students their grades would suffer if they wrote such letters. The college sanctioned the professor and apologized to the students.
2. Professor Nicholas De Genova of Columbia University stated during a six-hour university teach-in on the war in Iraq that he would like to see “a million Mogadishus”—a reference to the eighteen American soldiers who were ambushed and killed in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993.
1. Wesleyan University in Connecticut now offers a “Gender Blind” dormitory floor for incoming students who aren’t sure what sex they are. Students who ask for the floor will have roommates appointed without regard to their sex, perceived or otherwise. The rooms will be set aside for transgender students, described as those students born with ambiguous genitalia or who don’t identify with their physical sex.
Here's an idea: Keep the Jefferson name, but tell everybody it's named in honor of GEORGE Jefferson, of 'Movin' on up' fame...
LOL
I think this line was lifted from a "Seinfeld" episode, no?
As I recall, Jerry muses a better response to a woman sneezing would be "you are so beautiful" or something to that effect
How incredibly STOOPID! Why doesn't she just teach them to say "Gezundheit" (sp) and be done with it!
What is so terribly outrageous about this that it merits the number one space on the list?
Who is being injured by this decision, who is being discriminated against, which civil liberties have been trampled? Nobody, nobody, and none!
If there are some people who have gender issues, why not separate them out from the normal people, so both normals and abnormals can be most comfortable?
It's not as if gender is as simple as what chromosomes someone has: Jamie Lee Curtis has just one X chromosome and one Y chromosome (and she has AIS, "Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome," which means the testosterone in her is ignored by her body and eventually becomes estrogen, making her appear to be very female). Does that make her a man? Does she look like a man? Act like one? Have the external genetalia of a man? No, no, and no. Should she be classed as a man or a woman? Or should she be shunned as some sort of freak? Should colleges only accept students who can "pass" as belonging to a normal gender?
This author obviously believes that deviants should be discriminated against, shunned, hounded, and kept out of normal society, even if they are completely harmless. He doesn't think they should be welcome on college campuses. If freaky sex deviants aren't welcome on college campuses, where are they welcome? If they shouldn't exist there, they shouldn't exist anywhere--in other words, he wants deviants to cease to exist, which is just one step away from wanting to murder them (and it's not as if I haven't seen that desire articulated here on FR). Where does this a--hole get off whining about how Republicans aren't welcome on college campuses, and then turn around and demand other students be made to feel unwelcome?
...handdrawn notices posted in the library re: "Palestinian Socialist Lesbians Unite!" However, there is also living testament to rabid conservatives being spawned from the depths of in-your-face sick liberal lifestyles.
One day you wake up and realize that America is bigger than little "quaint" Northampton and its ideals are what's true, not your professors' spew and bilge.
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