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SAN MARCOS, Texas -- Violence on college campuses is a growing concern among students, and some say it's time to take protection into their own hands -- by carrying guns. Mike Guzman, a senior at Texas State University-San Marcos, is among 30,000 members of Students For Concealed Carry on Campus, a group dedicated to a nationwide effort to make it legal for students to carry concealed handguns on campus, San Antonio television news station KSAT reported. "It's a tool that we're allowed to use across the street in larger society, so why not on campus?" Guzman said. Concealed handguns may...

There is an ongoing epidemic in the land that may be more dangerous than any we've experienced before. It's not spread by bacteria or viruses, but can be fatal not simply to a person but to a nation. That epidemic is one of anti-Americanism or what might be called hate-Americanism. It is spread in many ways, including by politicians and a political party, by a president-elect and his associates, by the mainstream media and by colleges and universities. One of the most important ways it is spread is by the teaching of history in our colleges and universities, which is...

N.C. State student leaders lobby for hate crime act RALEIGH, N.C. — There was a call for change Wednesday evening night at North Carolina State University. Student leaders came together to talk about passing the "Free Expression Tunnel Hate Crime Act" after classmates admitted to painting racist remarks about President-elect Barack Obama on the night of Nov. 4. Two of the messages in N.C. State's "Free Expression Tunnel" said: "Let's shoot that (N-word) in the head" and "Hang Obama by a noose."

Some of Humboldt State University's student Republicans feel like minorities on campus, and are asking the university to change its nondiscrimination policy to include ideological views. ”The point is that everyone should be getting a chance to be heard,” said Jerilyn Gashi, president of the HSU College Conservatives, formerly the College Republicans. “Too often, the definition of diversity ends at a certain list. It should be extended to everyone, Republicans included.” The club is asking HSU to amend the university's nondiscrimination policy to include a clause prohibiting discrimination on the basis of ideological view or affiliation with major political parties....

An ethnic studies professor from the University of Colorado, Ward Churchill, received a standing ovation last night from a crowd of more than 200 New School students after blaming the 2001 World Trade Center attacks on America's support of Israel and its sanctions against Iraq in 1996. In a two-hour speech at the New School titled "Sterilizing History: The Fabrication of Innocent Americans," delivered without notes, Mr. Churchill traced what he called a pattern of mass murder as American foreign policy from the time of the country's inception to the events of September 11, 2001, which he said the country...

America's college campuses, once thought to be bastions of free speech, have become increasingly intolerant toward the practice. Visiting speakers whose views do not conform to the prevailing left-leaning political mind-set on most campuses are at particular risk of having their free speech rights infringed upon. While academia has its own crimes to atone for, it's the students who have become the bullies as of late. A disturbing number seem to feel that theirs is an inviolate world to which no one of differing opinion need apply. As a result, everything from pie throwing to disrupting speeches to attacks on...

My sister and I are close, talking on the phone several times a week, the occasional chit-chat online, checking out boy news, school news and petit gossip — staying on top of each other’s lives in general. She has even visited me at Cornell a few times. However, I have only seen her school, Bard College, once and briefly so, when I helped her move in as a freshman. That visit was dominated by runs to Target, moving furniture, getting lost on campus, filling out forms and shuffling around awkward orientation meetings. Now, with a year come and gone, her...

Jason Antebi can be offensive. There's no way around it. When Antebi attended Occidental College, from 2000 to 2004, he ticked off many of his fellow students. Antebi was a conservative member of the Occidental Student Government and a Howard Stern-type disk jockey on the Occidental student station. His political opponents, in a failed effort to recall him from his student government position, called him a "racist" and "anti-Semite" (Antebi is Jewish); his door was defaced with the words "You're a f---ing racist"; he was accused of "sexually harassing women." Antebi registered complaints with the Occidental administration; the administration did...

Pennsylvania State University has cancelled an art exhibition about terrorism and the destruction of Jewish historical and religious sites claiming it "did not promote cultural diversity." The ten-piece exhibit, by student Josh Stulman, was the result of years of preparation. It was called "Portraits of Terror" and focused on images of Palestinian terrorism, hate-propaganda cartoons printed in PA newspapers and photos of Jewish holy sites destroyed by Muslims. Just three days before the exhibition was to take place, Stulman received an email from the School of Visual Arts saying that his exhibit on images of terrorism "did not promote cultural...

WED — APRIL 5 — COULTER AT UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA! - GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Ann Coulter, political commentator and author of four New York Times bestsellers, will speak at 8 p.m. April 5 at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Florida. Doors open at 7:15 p.m. Advance tickets will be available at the Phillips Center and University Box Office to University of Florida students with a valid UF student ID beginning April 3, with a limit of two tickets per student. Beginning on April 5, tickets will be available to the general public at the...

Dear Chancellor John Bardo, I have a bone to pick with you. So does the US Constitution. And so do those who believe that universities should be open communities, allowing a diverse views to be expressed – in academic language. My public declaration of my candidacy for Congress from the 11th District here in Western Carolina was on 3 March. I’d contacted the Director of the Fine and Performing Arts Center at your university, Western Carolina, about using that Center for my first press conference. I offered to pay full rate for the use of the facilities. I had several...

My name is Stephen Miller and I am a freshman at Duke University. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate why every one of us ought to be concerned about the academic situation at Duke, and to ask for your help in putting Duke at the forefront of a revolution sweeping across America's campuses. As many of you know, conservatives across the nation have been decrying the political bias that is contaminating the educational system. Unfortunately, Duke has also fallen prey to political bias, and conservatives here have tried hard to open the eyes of a seemingly blind administration....

On the Web site of an unofficial alumni organization at the University of California, Los Angeles, there are profiles "exposing" the university's "most radical professors" who "actively proselytize their extreme views in the classroom." These professors are described as "brainless" and are berated for never having left the "fantasy world of college." [snip] There are other disturbing examples today and throughout history. In Colorado and Indiana, as a result of widely publicized student allegations of left-wing bias in the classroom, several professors have received hate mail and at least one received a death threat. The number of organizations across America...

A community college student in Massachusetts faces possible disciplinary action for shouting "Remember Chappaquiddick!" during an on-campus speech by Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy. Paul Trost, 20, a student at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Mass., says he was upset by an introduction of Kennedy given by Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., in which the congressman noted how the long-time senator overcame hardship in life on his way to success. "Lynch said Kennedy had overcome such adversity to get to the place he was, and that's a bunch of bull," Trost said of the introduction, which occurred in the school's student center...

On Tuesday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appeared at Georgetown Law School to deliver an address defending the NSA domestic spy programs. During the course of his address, nearly 30 students stood up one-by-one and turned their back on Gonzales in protest. A panel of law professors addressed Gonzales’ speech, calling it illegal. We play excerpts of Gonzales’ speech and law professor David Cole responding. [includes rush transcript] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- During Gonzales' speech, the protesting students stayed standing throughout the speech. Five students stood up and wore black hoods reminiscent of ones used at Abu Ghraib. The hooded students held a banner...

N.Y. Appeals Court Spanks Le Moyne A New York appeals court on Wednesday ordered Le Moyne College to reinstate Scott McConnell as a master’s degree student in education. The court found that the Syracuse college violated McConnell’s rights and the institution’s own policies when it kicked him out of the program a year ago. McConnell was prevented from enrolling in the spring 2005 semester after Le Moyne officials became aware that he had written a class paper endorsing the use of corporal punishment in the classroom. The letter dismissing him from the program expressed “grave concerns regarding the mismatch between...

Ann Coulter was delivering a speech at the University of Connecticut when it was cut short by shouting demonstrators. Got that? Anti hate, anti intolerance groups cut off Ann Coulter's lecture because they hate her speech, and won't tolerate it Typical. The people who most vigorously dry-hump the First Amendment are always the first to complain when anybody else wants a turn. The demonstrators, students mostly by all appearances as evidenced by the attire and the clutching of daddy's credit card, were outraged. Nineteen-year-old sophomore Eric Knudsen, the leader of a group called the "Students Against Hate", didn't think Coulter...

CARROLLTON — A history teacher at Carrollton High School has been suspended for allegedly making racially insensitive comments during a civil rights lesson. Mark McCormick, 46, who is white, has been placed on administrative leave with pay pending a disciplinary tribunal hearing the week after Thanksgiving, Superintendent Tom Wilson said Thursday. One of McCormick's students said he made "racially harassing comments" during a lecture. "We've investigated the situation extensively, and we believe these statements were made," said Wilson, who would not comment on what the remarks were. "Whether they were made intentionally or not, or taken out of context, is...

The publisher of a conservative student newspaper at the University of Georgia says he finds it ironic that liberal students who champion tolerance on campus have apparently demonstrated extreme intolerance by vandalizing his fliers and newspapers. David Kirby, publisher of the campus paper the Georgia Guard Dawg, says he recently put up 30 flyers advertising "Conservative Coming Out Day," a national holiday that recognizes how conservative views are often kept out of classrooms. But within a day of posting his flyers, he reports, all but three had been torn down. In addition, Kirby says he discovered about 25 copies of...

Two New York institutions sully their reputations in a cover-up of anti-Israel bias A generation or more ago, Columbia University in the City of New York (as its official title reads) was considered a hotbed of radical activity, and made news for campus student strikes, police riots and other unpleasantness. Today, Columbia is again in the headlines amid charges that its Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures Department is a hotbed of anti-Israel activism, where Jewish students are not only bombarded with Palestinian propaganda but made to feel unwelcome. Though a Jewish student being told by a professor that...

Christian Law Students Sue Ill. University By Associated Press April 6, 2005, 10:26 PM EDT CARBONDALE, Ill. -- A law school student group that requires members to pledge to adhere to Christian beliefs -- including a prohibition against homosexuality -- has sued Southern Illinois University for refusing to recognize the organization. A chapter of the national Christian Legal Society at the university's law school filed the lawsuit Tuesday in federal court, alleging school officials violated the group's constitutional rights, including the right to free speech, by revoking its status March 25. The revocation means the group can no longer use...

Ideally, the college campus would be a safe haven for the free exchange of ideas, no matter how outlandish or out-of-the-mainstream they may be. In a perfect world, universities would invite speakers and hire professors based solely on the notion that having the most diverse group of academics is the most important thing to a college education. In this world, it would be easy for university administrators to differentiate between intelligent, but peculiar, discussion and unnecessary hate speech. Problem is, we do not live in an ideal world. We live in a world in which professors like Ward Churchill speak...

EUGENE, Ore. – The University of Oregon is defending its decision to tell one of its delivery drivers to remove a "Support Our Troops" magnet from the state-owned truck he uses at work. Oregon law prohibits personal messages on state-owned vehicles, regardless of the context. Several months ago, driver Pete Baker put the yellow ribbon magnet on the back of the state truck. University officials learned of the magnet and said last week it had to come off, and Baker's story quickly found its way to radio talk shows and to several military Web logs. "I don't know how they...

America's Anti-Free Speech Movement The nation's leftists, whether in academia or the news media tout themselves as advocates of free speech. Back in 1964, it was Mario Savio a campus leftist who led the Free Speech Movement at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, a movement that without question played a vital role in placing American universities center stage in the flow of political ideas no matter how controversial, unpatriotic and vulgar. From the Nazis to the Stalinists leftists have always supported free speech rights, at least initially. Why? Because speech is important for the realization of leftist...

From Yale to the University of North Carolina, liberal academia is being challenged by a new generation of conservative leadership. Credible tales of professors grading down conservative students have always run rampant. Biased lectures remain the unremarkable norm. One variable has changed, however. Liberal academia lacks its traditionally receptive audience. During the opening weeks of the Iraq war, professors were shocked by the absence of antiwar fervor among their pupils. Leading up to the 2004 elections, record numbers of undergraduates joined the College Republicans and other conservative organizations. Ingenious student protests, such as Berkeley’s affirmative action bake sale and Duke’s...

My name is Michael Wiesner and I am a former student at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California. I am writing this article in the wake of an incident in which a teacher at the college recommended psychological therapy to an Arab student who had praised the U.S. Constitution On December 1st, a professor named Joseph Woolcock suggested a Kuwaiti Arab Muslim student named Ahmad Al-Qloushi should seek therapy after the student submitted a paper arguing that the U.S. Constitution was a step forward for America and the world. The Foothill College Republicans reported Dr. Woolcock's behavior to the media, and...

On 11/9/04 Larry Elder had Stephen Miller on his radio show. What they talked about completely floored me. Stephen is a student at Duke and is trying to call attention to the abominable actions being taken on that campus to actively recruit future terrorists (with the President's blessing, no less). The bottom line of Stephen's chilling article is this: "America is the midst of a war on terror, where in the end we will either meet victory or death. And as we are engaged in this life and death struggle, Duke just gave its time, money, resources, space, and student...

QUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | MEETUP | C-LOG | ISSUES townhall.comPrinter-friendly versionReligious discrimination at the University of GeorgiaMike S. Adams (back to web version) | Send November 9, 2004Author’s note: The president of the University of Georgia is also named Mike Adams. We are not related.Dear President Adams (phone # 706.542.1214):I was recently informed about a possible case of religious discrimination against a (now former) cheerleading coach at the University of Georgia (UGA). Before I ask you a few questions about that case, I have several preliminary questions regarding the gay “safe zone” at UGA. My...

If you want to know how students who believe in God and morality are treated on a secular college campus, the answer is: without an ounce of tolerance. On November 1, Feast of All Saints, TFP Student Action volunteers visited the University of Delaware. Together with students of St. Louis de Montfort Academy, they blanketed the campus with a six-page flyer titled Are We Still One Nation Under God?, a scholarly document based on divine and natural law explaining why homosexual vice is morally wrong and detrimental to the family. As TFP volunteers began their peaceful and legal campaign, a...

DURHAM — Timothy Garneau can move back in to a University of New Hampshire dorm and stop living in his car after school officials dropped further sanctions imposed on him for joking about female freshmen gaining weight. The UNH sophomore said yesterday that Esther Tardy-Wolfe, director of UNH's Judicial and Mediation Programs Office, told him he can relocate to Gibbs Hall but not move back in to his former dorm, Stoke Hall. "I wish I was back in my original room but at the same time, it's a relief to be somewhere to be able to put your clothes in...

Two arrested for hurling pies at columnist 10/22/2004, 6:04 a.m. ET The Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Two men ran onstage and threw custard pies at conservative columnist Ann Coulter as she was giving a speech at the University of Arizona, hitting her in the shoulder, police said. University police arrested the men but did not release their identities. In her half-hour speech Thursday night, Coulter trashed Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and derided liberals and Democrats while saluting conservative students who attended her speech. Coulter writes a column for Universal Press Syndicate. Her appearance was sponsored by the...

WASHINGTON -- Amid occasional outbursts of political correctness, I have consistently held that straight (as in non-gay) white males (sometimes known as SWMs) deserve respect too. After all, we may have come here on different ships but we're all in the same boat now, as Whitney Young, the late, great civil rights leader, used to say. With that in mind, I registered no small amount of alarm to hear that a young SWM at the University of North Carolina has been illegally subjected to "intentional discrimination and harassment," according to a ruling by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for...

Discrimination against white male found By George Archibald THE WASHINGTON TIMES An English professor at the University of North Carolina illegally subjected a student to "intentional discrimination and harassment" because he was "a white, heterosexual Christian male" who expressed disapproval of homosexuality, the U.S. Education Department's Office of Civil Rights has ruled. Professor Elyse Crystall violated student Timothy R. Mertes' civil rights, the agency said, by improperly accusing him of "hate speech" in an e-mail sent to students after a class discussion in which Mr. Mertes said he was a Christian and felt "disgusted, not threatened" by homosexual behavior. "The...

It's hard to avoid the political theater under way in Utah County, where student leaders at Utah Valley State College have decided to spend $40,000 to bring in controversial filmmaker Michael Moore to speak. Hard to ignore because Moore himself has been an "in your face" presence nationwide throughout this presidential election year. As most people now know, the school has decided to invite a well-known conservative voice to speak as well, in the interest of balance. At the moment, radio talk show host Sean Hannity seems the most likely choice. He has gone as far as to suggest a...

Eco-Logic / Powerhouse Commentary... My college supports treason and terrorism! By Judson Cox On August 25th of this year, I went back to college. I chose Lees McRae College, a small, Presbyterian college in the mountains of North Carolina. I expected a degree of liberalism common to most colleges and universities, but I hoped for diversity of opinion and a healthy debate. Except for a handful of students, I have encountered no ideological diversity at Lees McRae College, but a group-think style of hard left indoctrination. I was not shocked when a literature class devolved into a uniform trashing of...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., August 25, 2004 A federal lawsuit was filed today against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) by Alpha Iota Omega (AIO), a Christian fraternity that was denied recognition by UNC because it would not agree to open its membership to students of different faiths. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which is fighting on behalf of AIO in its conflict with UNC administrators, is now joined by the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), which brought the suit against the university. "For too long, UNC has denied religious groups the basic rights that all...