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SMU students outraged that 9/11 memorial flags must be moved
Dallas News ^ | 01 August 2017 | Lauren Fox

Posted on 08/01/2017 8:45:11 PM PDT by Lorianne

Southern Methodist University officials on Tuesday revised a policy that aimed to protect students from "harmful or triggering" messages after a dispute erupted over an annual 9/11 installation that students had planned for the heart of campus.

Nearly 3,000 flags have been placed on Southern Methodist University's Dallas Hall Lawn every year since 2010, but the group responsible for the display, Young Americans for Freedom, was recently told it must be moved.

University officials told Grant Wolf, who leads SMU's Young Americans chapter, that the display can be placed only on Morrison-McGinnis Park, a less prominent campus location informally known as MoMac Park.

In a policy posted in July, SMU stated that, "The University respects the right of all members of the SMU community to express their opinions. The University also respects the right of all members of the community to avoid messages that are triggering, harmful or harassing. It is the policy of the University to protect the exercise of these rights."

The university revised the policy Tuesday.

"SMU respects the rights of all campus community members to express their opinions, as well as their right to be free from coercion and harassment. The policy has been further updated to better reflect this balance and to remove the poor wording regarding triggering or harmful messages," it said in a prepared statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 911memorial; campus; flag; flags; smu; triggerfreecampus
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To: Sasparilla

From now on, we may need to institute psychological testing of such candidates for elective office, to at least ensure that they have mastered the concept of “REALITY”!!! Otherwise, we may wind up with our own “Senator Kim Jong-Un”!


21 posted on 08/01/2017 9:15:47 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: apoliticalone

In their catelogue on the first page of introduction it states clearly that it was not a school of theology, it relied on science to educate students. I paid for 3 degrees, but i will not pay for another.


22 posted on 08/01/2017 9:17:26 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (proawakileftist)
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To: KC_Lion

That is a powerful image! (....and I’m stealing it!)


23 posted on 08/01/2017 9:17:56 PM PDT by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: KC_Lion

This sickens me to no end...to think that our leftist colleges ARE getting away with “Forgetting” 9/11.

Where are the Judeo-Christian groups fighting this??


24 posted on 08/01/2017 9:18:46 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Timpanagos1
SMU is a private school and it has the right to exercise controls on political, social and religious displays on campus.

But, following the rules enforced by the left, if they accept even one penny of federal money either directly or indirectly through student aid, they have to follow a stack of federal regulations taller than the Empire State Building.

Just imagine if SMU decided to reduce the number of female sports scholarships to one less than the number of male scholarships they would have hundreds of lawyers suing based on Title IX. The only way to avoid these laws is to go the way of Hillsdale College.

25 posted on 08/01/2017 9:25:12 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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To: Lorianne

I bet that there was a change in administrators at the university and the new person is an extreme liberal who has decided to impose this.


26 posted on 08/01/2017 9:26:30 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: apoliticalone

Just like their neighbor to the West, Texas “Christian” University.


27 posted on 08/01/2017 9:27:40 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: KarlInOhio

I don’t think there is a federal law against a private school, or even a public school, from controlling political speech on campus.

A school can establish a free speech zone and they can also prohibit political speech.

Liberty University can prohibit a Pro Abortion group from demonstrating on campus and Reed College can prohibit a White Nationalist group from demonstrating on their campus.


28 posted on 08/01/2017 9:36:44 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Lorianne

We are not going to beat the Muslims.

Ever.


29 posted on 08/01/2017 9:38:25 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Timpanagos1

Private school...with public money.


30 posted on 08/01/2017 9:59:43 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Be professional and be polite...but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: Lorianne

31 posted on 08/01/2017 10:00:07 PM PDT by henbane
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To: Lorianne

The YAF students should unofficially arrange to have 3000 people stand on the lawn holding American Flags, and pictures of the Twin Towers in flames.


32 posted on 08/01/2017 10:05:42 PM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: Osage Orange

“Private school...with public money.”

Yes, but they are able to control speech and other displays of a political, social or religious displays on their campus.


33 posted on 08/01/2017 10:08:09 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Lorianne

I remember that day very well. jihadis declared war on the USA and Western Civilization. Again, they will lose.


34 posted on 08/01/2017 10:10:49 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Lorianne

SMU is a private college and has the total an unequivocal right to commit financial suicide. I would suggest to any and all alumni of this once prestigious college to not send them one damn dime.


35 posted on 08/01/2017 10:18:09 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud-man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, CONSTITUTION WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Tzimisce

And again I say it: Liberals will be the death of this nation.

One of these days, the muzzies are going to set off a nuclear or chemical weapon in this country and the lemmings are gonna freak out and wonder how it happened.

And then return to their idiot ways 0.00000035 seconds afterwards.


36 posted on 08/01/2017 10:35:19 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 21:36 KJV Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all...)
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To: Timpanagos1
The case law, decided by the currently sitting Supreme Court is that public universities may place reasonable restrictions on time, place and manner, but such restrictions are to be examined under the standard of strict scrutiny.

That severely limits the ability of public universities to limit free speech, or any other Constitutional protection incorporated against the states.

37 posted on 08/01/2017 10:39:49 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come 'round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: FredZarguna

At my state university in the 1980’s the administration establish a Free Speech Zone with a times for free speech.

Lots of organizations joined in a priest of that policy and our protest was in the zone but outside of the established free speech times.

We were arrested, and when the university police hauled us down to be booked at county, the district attorney laughed at the university police and refused to to charge us.

A week later, the university changed their free speech policy.


38 posted on 08/01/2017 10:47:47 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Lorianne

39 posted on 08/01/2017 10:48:41 PM PDT by 4Liberty ("Russia"? Communists have been infiltrating Hollywood & US academia for decades..........)
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To: LUV W
I can't imagine who would be offended by this. Are Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell students at SMU now?


40 posted on 08/01/2017 10:57:40 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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