The Columbia administration is getting serious!
They want to find the leader of the protest in order to give 'em the
Free Speech award at next graduation.
(/sarc)
bastard media, "...conservative anti-immigration group..."
It's the Republicans fault, doncha know?
The only thing that bothers me is that these obvious “free speech” advocates are training to be the leaders of our future!
---The incident, at Columbia’s Roone Arledge Auditorium, reflects the strong feelings surround the immigration debate in the United States. ---
No, it reflects the profound disregard of the left for free speech and honest and open debate.
This type of behaviour is the norm at Columbia. Nothing will be done to the rioters. Mostly likely the university president is high fiving the organizers.
I saw the film footage.
Campus police stood there with blank stares on their faces.
Once the protestors went on stage, they were in the wrong.
They could have done what they did from their seats.
H&C just had two girls/protestors on. One claimed the Minutemen threw the first punch, that they are on the border atacking/raping the 'poor' migrant workers.
Almost no one is anti-immigration. The Minutemen are anti-illegal-immigration
I'm a woman, and not a violent woman either. Yet, I wanted to slap this little smart a$$ who was talking back to Sean on H&C. I can't believe the cool Sean showed. I wouldn't have been able to. What a little witch.
Man...someone needed a Nanny 911 when SHE was a child. Now, I'm afraid it's too late. Wooooooooo, what a piece of work!
NY Times is so bloody transparent. If the protest was against a pro-abortion speaker they sure wouldn't be commenting on the 'strong feelings' around the issue, but the violence, the attack on free speech, the inability to consider opposing views, blah, blah, blah. A violent protest against a conservative group, oh, that is excusable because people do, and should, have strong feelings about the issue.
A prime example of facism.
How condescending of the author of this article to phrase it like that, but for the record, the article was published in the New York Times, a purported newspaper run by a self-appointed band of traitors that have focused mostly on giving aid and comfort to America's enemies...
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