Posted on 10/06/2006 6:37:27 PM PDT by nj26
The university is permeated with various hate groups which are essentially operating as anarchists. The rules never apply to them and heaven help anyone with a different viewpoint.
Yes, and their behavior is eerily similar to another place and another time....
But others said they were moved to jump on stage because they disagreed so vehemently with Mr. Gilchrist.
“We were aware that there was going to be a sign and we were going to occupy the stage,” The Spectator quoted one protester who was on the stage as saying. “I don’t feel like we need to apologize or anything. It was fundamentally a part of free speech. ... The Minutemen are not a legitimate part of the debate on immigration.”
Columbia Education, Chicano Caucus
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Constitution
ARTICLE I
The name of this organization shall be the Chicano Caucus of Columbia University.
ARTICLE II, GOALS
The goals of this organization shall be:
* To provide its members with a Chicano environment that will help them to fulfill their educational goals, to promote their cultural consciousness, and to help them become active in serving the needs of their community.
* To inform Chicanos from every region of the United States about higher educational opportunities. with particular emphasis on the strengths and weaknesses of an education at Columbia, and at other east coast universities, encouraging them to apply, and assisting them in the application process.
* To initiate and participate in activities which will foster intergroup relations, interaction among the Chicano Caucus, the Columbia Community, and the east coast Chicano Community.
* To contribute through our active participation to the general well-being of Latinos, and towards the proper resolution of the problems facing these analogous peoples.
The International Festival (IF) Committee has apologized to the Chicano Caucus for an advertising slogan some Caucus members called insensitive to immigrant communities.
The slogan on the posters that were put up around campus read, "Meet the Aliens ... the legal ones."
The Caucus will meet today with members of Acción Latina and the International Consortium, which sponsored the festival, to arrange a lunch discussion about the situation.
The controversy comes during a period of heightened tension in the local Hispanic community, which has experienced several immigration raids in recent months.
"Try to understand why a phrase such as: 'come meet the aliens...the legal ones,' evokes unpleasant feelings of international student elitism, disgrace and disrespect for our hard-won rights as immigrants in this country, disregard for our immigrant ancestors, and a mockery of something so dear and poignant to us," Chicano Caucus president Juan Lopez '06 said in an email. "Again, my issue is not with the IF's harmless intentions but with their continued lack of sensibility and respect for our feelings and their continued attacks upon our response to their phrase."
A number of campus groups, including the Chicano caucus, the African-American student organization, and the International Socialist organization, began planning their protests early this week when they heard that the Minutemen would be arriving on campus.
The student protesters, who attended the event clad in white as a sign of dissent, booed and shouted the speakers down throughout. They interrupted Mr. Stewart, who is African-American, when he referred to the Declaration of Independence's self-evident truth that "All men are created equal," calling him a racist, a sellout, and a black white supremacist.
A student's demand that Mr. Stewart speak in Spanish elicited thundering applause and brought the protesters to their feet. The protesters remained standing, turned their backs on Mr. Stewart for the remainder of his remarks, and drowned him out by chanting, "Wrap it up, wrap it up!" Mr. Stewart appeared unfazed by their behavior. He simply smiled and bellowed, "No wonder you don't know what you're talking about."
"These are racist individuals heading a project that terrorizes immigrants on the U.S.-Mexican border," Ryan Fukumori, a Columbia junior who took part in the protest, told The New York Sun. "They have no right to be able to speak here."
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A performance by Columbia student Ryan Fukumori, CC '09, who read original poetry to his own beats.
Ryan H. Fukumori, Berkeley High School
She had her nasty characterization she insisted on making, as if no one knew anything about it and would believe her.
Ditto - she was absolutely rage provoking and seemed to be loving it. I can't even imagine what her upbringing must have been like to have a mouth spewing that kind of venom by college age.
That was the first thing I noticed. Shameful.
Don't you love affirmative action?
They got some bad press. I don't think they are at all sincere.
In one article, the conspirators said that the Minutemen were an illegitimate organization and not entitled to a say in the debate.
It is the views of conservatives that keeps them from having a right to have a say "at the table".
Political correctness is about stifling free speech. Indoctrinate from the left and outlaw conservativism as thoughtcrime.
Same as when I was at college 20 years ago and the left would make death threats against the speakers conservatives would invite to campus, shutting down the events. That was my era of introduction to political correctness (PC when it was just getting named as such, although it had existed on campuses for at least 20 years prior to that).
Damn totalitarian.
Sorry, but until I actually see some action on Bollinger's part, I'm going to view this as nothing more than window dressing, a cynical attempt to throw a bone to the raving right-wing masses (his view) in the hopes they'll pick at it long enough for the story to go away on its own. The hiding under the desk routine worked for these people in the 60's, but these are different times. Now they hide in the open like the purloined letter, behind tough-talking statements that are backed up by nothing.
The tolerant left strikes again!
That he wasn't going to let them say what they wanted to say. It's his right, of course, but looks awfully hypocritical in a debate over "free speech"
No doubt you're right. But we can hope.
Mexico's president's own National Action Party (http://www.pan.org.mx) is now working with its governors in Northern states near the U.S. border to pressure George Bush to veto the border wall. Details (in Spanish) are here:
http://www.el-universal.com.mx/notas/379772.html
These same people hypocritically haven't lifted a finger to make Mexico's own immigration laws less anti-gringo and racist against us down there:
http://www.directory.com.mx/immigration
What do they seek, a conquista of U.S. territory that Mexico claims because a few of its inhabitants relatively briefly occupied the land after they stole it from Spain (which stole it from indigenous tribes)?
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