Posted on 04/27/2015 10:11:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
Earlier this month, a conservative student named Laura was suspended from Barry University for exposing her administration's sympathetic nature to ISIS. She’s a 4.0 honors student and was even awarded 'Most Outstanding Senior’ by the Communications Department the same day her expose was published.
The administration, obviously feeling embarrassed, retaliated by punishing Laura for alerting the community of their anti-American behavior. For the past three weeks, Laura’s graduation status has been in jeopardy.
Unfortunately, this type of retaliation towards conservative students happens every single year. It happened to me around this time last year, as I was about to graduate from Furman University.
My mistreatment didn’t stem from one particular incident. Rather, it was the culmination of consistently sticking up for conservative values and doing so even when it wasn't popular.
I was called a racist because I protested Rev. Jesse Jackson - the man who calls Jews, “hymie". I was called anti-poor because I advocated for private charity - forget that I serve at my church’s homeless ministry every month.
"Don’t be friends with Lauren Cooley,” professors taught my peers from the lectern.
“We won’t sponsor your club if Lauren Cooley is a part of your group,” my friends were told.
It was miserable, so I filed a Title IX harassment suit with the school. Days before graduating, I received the verdict from the Vice President: all of this was nothing more than 'academic conversation.'
That’s right. Making fun of me on social media, barring me from academic clubs, and threatening me with student court trials were all academic. This is the vicious nature of the Ivory Tower.
I was fortunate enough to graduate and escape this hostile abuse. And thankfully, due to extreme pressure from both national media and local activists, Laura will too. She was reinstated to Barry University earlier this week and will graduate with her classmates in May.
Now, while both Laura and my situations have been resolved, it is important that these stories be told. We’ve all heard of biased textbooks and free speech zones, but the day-to-day treatment of conservative students on campus is both far worse and often covered up.
No student should deal with brutal attacks from his or her own college. Unfortunately, that's the harsh reality courageous and outspoken conservative students deal with every year.
Has Laura filed a massive law suit yet?
“Has Laura filed a massive law suit yet?”
The only way I see to stop the rabid lefties is sue them, and take their money.
The suspentions are not “willy nilly”, but targeted at those who refuse to kowtow to political correctness.
Exactly.
Why do they call concern about ISIS “conservative”? Do liberals think that random terrorism will somehow exclude them?
Why did they put a picture of Georgetown with this article? It didn’t have anything to do with Georgetown.
What did Willy and Nilly do this time?
Willy is a goot boy, he never done nothin’!
When the civil war comes, just remember that the media and academia are also the enemy
This girl has been going through hell in a campaign of bullying, harassment and threats. I certainly hope she does sue them. What surprises me is that she stayed at the school all these years.
Some of these conservatives who have been harassed should put up a website that parents can go to when they are looking for colleges to apply to for their kids.
They should also be contacting the alumni and letting them know, if all the conservative alumni quit sending money the admin might start noticing.
bkmk
SOP for ivy-covered North Korea’s.
There are always students who celebrate Marx at any college. The issue is whether a college supports lunatics who have no problem with ISIS and also suspend students who expose lunatic professors. I am not aware of Georgetown doing either, although the two schools mentioned in the article did that.
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