Thanks to Nikki for sending me the link. This is a blog that Dr. Laura posted about conservative voices being trounced on in universities across America. She refers specifically to a University of Wisconsin where pro-life students, under University permission, had set up 4000 white crosses in a lawn to represent how many abortions are done every day in America. A student came and made a scene, pulling out every cross and saying that pro-lifers "don't have the right to challenge it." The student recieved no discipline and there are no plans to really address it. Click below to read the blog or to watch the video of the student.
Dr. Laura's blog
Video of U. of Wisc. student
Thursday, June 26, 2008
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I've see offensive protests from all directions and this was not one of them.
Ironically, the visual is perhaps better with the crosses tossed like unimportant garbage.
Are you talking about the protest or the protest of the protest?
I don't think what the guy was doing was as offensive as the lack of discipline. It happens all the time on campuses - if a conservative student interrupts a liberal protest then they are disciplined in the name of "free speech," but vice versa is never so.
Not on our campus, and over at WSU. The door swings both ways with people having outrageous protests, and with unbecoming behavior in protesting the demonstration.
Also, I was stating that the crosses were not offensive, and the actions of the man pulling them out were unbecoming.
Yes, I agree that it happens on both sides. It's how the students are disciplined afterwards that is pathetic. When people trample through right wing protests, nothing is done, but on the other side they are chided and scolded, and even suspended and expelled.
Our campus has been equal to all parties in the past. I'm not sure it is out of fear or respect, but in this one small blip on the map, things are a fair as I've ever seen.
I say fear because the local population is more liberal, while the state's predominately conservative influences are still very present.
The more I think about it, I am very proud of the peaceful nature that ideas are expressed here.
Well it definitely not like that here. When pro-life students demonstrated on campus, they were criticized by the newspaper and every student and professor I talked to. Every professor takes every opportunity to push lefty agendas (like my psych teacher telling us why we need to stop global warming). My views are constantly belittled and suppressed. When I was at Clark in Vancouver the school paid for a guest speaker to lecture on the calamities of the Iraq war, even though there is explicit school policy against political action by the school. I get better grades when I write what the teachers want to hear rather than what I believe to be true, no matter how well thought out or argued. Columbia welcomes a state sponsor of terror (Ahmadinajad) but allows the Minutemen to be yelled off the stage. The list goes on and on. Perhaps you feel that there is a free exchange of ideas because you agree with more of what they are telling you than I do.
I know that you'll probably miss the fact that I posted this, but here goes:
If you look at the voting record of Latah County, where the UI resides, you will see that the votes for dem/rep are almost 50/50. The rest of the state, who sends students, votes 80ish% Rep.
Here at school both sides talk openly and without fear of censure.
There are two things of note, the school as an entity and as parts did not openly say God/Flag/Terrorism/The Pledge of Allegiance as much as they do in southern Idaho. Also, the only problem the campus has had, as witnessed by me, all the people I have talked with, the school paper, and the local paper.... is with the religious "nuts" that hold up signs and say that everyone is going to die and that sports are a sin etc. etc..... and even then... the body of students who were not religious tried to reason it out, while the religious folks tried to explain to the others that this guy was crazy and they didn't believe what he was yelling.
I actually had many really great discussions with friends, classmates, and professors about religion because of the "nut"
I am tired and I am not sure I made the point.... so I shall retire.
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