The Cost of Conservatism @ Cornell...Hosting Conservative Speakers Comes With Added Expenses (TR)

© Copyright 2017, The Cornell Daily Sun ^ | 03.03.17 | By Drew Musto

[Behind Liberal Lines]

The right to speak on Cornell’s campus is a “paramount value,” one upon which the University has an “essential dependence,” according to the Campus Code of Conduct...

But some groups that have hosted conservative speakers on campus are not buying the administration’s rhetoric, citing the thousands of dollars they have been asked to pay the University for security at their events.

And they say it is a cost that hosts of conservative speakers disproportionately have to bear.

“The University, through its current policy — intentional or not — imposes additional financial and administrative costs on groups wishing to host conservative speakers,” said Troy LeCaire, president of the Cornell Political Union.

Several weeks ago, CPU made a lecture by Tea Party activist Michael Johns private after the University discovered that students planned to protest Johns’s speech and subsequently charged the group $1,700 for security. The charge would have bankrupted the union, which receives only $1,000 in funding per semester.

Johns was also the first speaker in CPU’s history that came with a security fee, according to LeCaire.

The Cornell Republicans are no stranger to these fees either.

Meanwhile, the Cornell Democrats have not payed anything in security fees to the University within the past few years....

[Behind Liberal Lines]

There's a reason that Cornell is called "the Big Red" and there's a reason that Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

City of Evil bump

[Steve_Seattle]

Instead of arresting and fining violent protesters, the university capitulates and shifts the costs to the victims. This is evil. It is un-American.

[Steve_Seattle]

Since the protesters at conservative events are Democrats, the Young Democrats should pay the security fees. If the Democrats can’t control their own people, why should conservatives pay the tab?

[Defiant]

That is the cost of coddling and admitting leftist lunatics, and having them as professors.

[FreeReign]

“The University, through its current policy — intentional or not — imposes additional financial and administrative costs on groups wishing to host conservative speakers,” said Troy LeCaire, president of the Cornell Political Union.

Cool. Partially government funded Cornell charges a tax on conservative free speech.

Troy KeCaire us a dumbass.

[CoastWatcher]

This is a Nazi strategy to have the victim pay for his abuse. It is not unlike how the Nazi’s would extend the victim’s time in prison; if a family member questioned them about the victim’s health or release date. It was a strategy to discourage questioning the Party.