Posted on 12/18/2002 11:35:37 AM PST by Trouble North of the Border
Bias related incident committee and incosistant support of free speech Top Ten List
Our nation’s education system continues to deteriorate in the name of political correctness. With the year ending, Young America’s Foundation has compiled a top ten list of the most shameful campus events in the U.S. education system in 2002.
10. Following a Young America’s Foundation event at Ithaca College featuring Bay Buchanan, homosexual and feminist student activists demanded that the event be declared “biased” by the school’s Bias-related Incident Committee. Although the speech was not ruled biased, committee hearings to determine whether an “incident” occurred are held behind closed doors and the accused is not informed of the committee’s decision unless it determines that the student or student group should be referred to the judiciary committee. Furthermore, discussions on changing the definition of “biased” are also held in private.
9. An American University student was pinned down and handcuffed outside a Tipper Gore speech by plainclothes campus police who refused to identify themselves. The student was charged with stealing Gore’s intellectual property by videotaping her speech, which was open to the public. The school claims that it made an announcement barring videotape recording of the event even though no such prohibition was on the flyers advertising the speech and print reporters covered the speech. The student had been critical of the university’s president in the past and voiced concern over the $31,000 lecture fee the university was paying Gore. As a result of the event, the student was placed on probation and threatened with expulsion.
8. Vanderbilt University renamed its Confederate Memorial Hall dormitory to Memorial Hall, because the word “Confederate” makes some people uncomfortable. Also, Vanderbilt Professor Jonathan David Farley, an assistant professor of mathematics, wrote in the Tennessean that Confederates were “cowards masquerading as civilized men” and that “every Confederate soldier deserved not a hallowed resting place at the end of his days but a reservation at the end of the gallows.” On his web page, Professor Farley has a picture of himself posing next to a poster of Marxist Ernesto “Che” Guevara, whom Farley says he considers a hero.
Continue to read the 2002 Top Ten Campus Follies and leave your comments.
Go here -> http://www.yaf.org/press/12_18_02_.html
7. North Carolina
8. Vanderbilt
Go Tar Heels! Go Commodores! Of course, I just couldn't be prouder...
I believe the point isn't that a guest expressed a surprising viewpoint after arriving, it's that he expressed "hate speech" views *before* arriving, students objected to his being invited to the campus, and he was invited *anyway*.
They certainly have "control" over who they *invite*, all the while knowing his record.
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