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Badger Backlash
Campus Report ^ | March 24, 2008 | Deborah Lambert

Posted on 03/24/2008 1:34:58 PM PDT by bs9021

Badger Backlash

by: Deborah Lambert, March 24, 2008

Wisconsin-based author/scholar/radio talker Charles Sykes reports that even at the liberal-left bastion known as the University of Wisconsin, students are refusing to be held hostage by the pc zealots.

One major breakthrough: conservative students and their moderate allies now hold a voting majority in the Student Senate.

Of course, hurdles still exist. Last year when conservative groups sponsored a visit by former terrorist Walid Shoebat to speak on “Why I Left Jihad,” the Muslim Student Association demanded that the event be cancelled.

The administration eventually gave a green light to the event, but slapped a $2500 “security fee” on the sponsoring groups.

Not so fast, said the students. This sounds a lot like muzzling free speech to us.

Marquette University Law Professor Rick Esenberg agreed. He wrote that “the administration’s decision to charge conservatives an excessive fee was unconstitutional.”

While he acknowledged that a public university “may impose reasonable time, place and manner regulations, it does not get to engage in viewpoint discrimination… adding that “it can’t set fees based upon an assessment of the speaker’s views and the likely reaction to it.”

The university waived the fee....

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; US: Wisconsin; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; cair; freespeech; hghereducation; islam; university; walidshoebat

1 posted on 03/24/2008 1:34:59 PM PDT by bs9021
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To: bs9021

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/


2 posted on 03/24/2008 1:36:26 PM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Red Badger

Damn, you beat me to it.

Mushroom...Mushroom.


3 posted on 03/24/2008 1:37:21 PM PDT by RangerM (Get your own.)
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To: bs9021

Conservatives hold a majority in the student senate...wow, never thought I’d see the day. Wonder how they define “conservative”?


4 posted on 03/24/2008 1:38:12 PM PDT by Kryptonite (Keep Democrats Out of Power!)
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To: RangerM

http://www.boredmuch.com/view.php?id=320


5 posted on 03/24/2008 1:38:50 PM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: RangerM

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/badgers2/


6 posted on 03/24/2008 1:41:14 PM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Kryptonite
Who Cares!

Babies start out with little, hesitant steps. Whacking them with a baseball bat because they are not doing it right does not help their learning curve.

7 posted on 03/24/2008 1:44:01 PM PDT by fireforeffect (A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)
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To: bs9021

Attempting to charge patriotic Americans a fee for the injury that might be done to them by islamofascists and their treasonous leftist friends stifling truth. Only in the stinking swamps of academia could that seem reasonable.


8 posted on 03/24/2008 2:09:37 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (Is Obama Muslim? Given the "church" he belongs to, he might as well be.)
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To: Red Badger
groan

At least it's not "hamsterdance". Close, though.

That you out there in front?


9 posted on 03/24/2008 2:21:02 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (I'm not voting FOR John McCain -- I'm voting AGAINST Hillary/Obama)
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To: RangerM

Snaaake.........Snaaake........


10 posted on 03/24/2008 2:21:12 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: blackdog; Red Badger

Definitely “quality time”

:)


11 posted on 03/24/2008 2:53:51 PM PDT by RangerM (Get your own.)
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To: RangerM

My daughter’s a Golden
gopher. Her boyfriend is a Badger. He’s got the damn song as a ringtone.


12 posted on 03/24/2008 2:56:43 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: blackdog
My daughter’s a Golden gopher.

They're working miracles now with plastic surgery.

13 posted on 03/24/2008 2:58:26 PM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: blackdog

I’ve always wanted to put the “Mah-Nah, Mah-Nah” song on my phone, just to get it into peoples’ heads for a day.


14 posted on 03/24/2008 2:59:56 PM PDT by RangerM (Get your own.)
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