Student under investigation for posting conservative flyers

Campus Reform ^ | Apr 09, 2018 | Toni Airaksinen

[detective]

A conservative student at Siena College is facing a disciplinary hearing after he posted 600 flyers around campus of an email in which a professor called conservative students “miserable” to work with.

The "Notice of Charges" accuses Zachary Butler of actions that "adversely [affected] the health, welfare, and/or safety” of campus community members "or the name and/or reputation of the College."

[detective]

Siena is a Catholic College near Albany NY. Their teams are named the Saints.

Butler said that the climate of hostility against conservative students—deeply concerned him.

[hal ogen]

Typical action of typical loser/LIB college administrators who despise free thought and expression.

[I want the USA back]

There is no freedom of speech in the USA. The government is forbidden to interfere with free speech, so it willingly allows private institutions to persecute people for their thoughts.

[Bob434]

the student should claim that he feels that the hostile comment by professor “adversely [affected] the health, welfare, and/or safety” of himself and other conservative students

[Redmen4ever]

Are other students and student groups that post unauthorized flyers treated similarly?

[Flick Lives]

“Depending on the information received at the time of the meeting and/or during further investigation, the College reserves the right to dismiss charges and/or bring additional charges against you,” explained the “Notice of Charges” email sent to Butler.

Despite that potential sanctions include expulsion, Butler was not notified of any right to legal counsel. If he denies responsibility for any of the two charges, Butler will be expected to present exculpatory evidence, and a verdict will be rendered based on the often-criticized “preponderance of the evidence standard.”

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There is one and only one response to this sort of B.S. Sue-the-bastards.

[CIB-173RDABN]

I am old enough to remember the “free speech” movement on college campuses in the 1960s and 1970s.

Once the socialist gained control free speech was reserved for those that agree with them. Anything else is considered “racist” or “hate”

[Arm_Bears]

Beat me to it.

Evidently, the health, welfare, and/or safety of campus community members is a one-way street.

[BenLurkin]

Darn that pesky truth!

How dare he expose professorial bigotry!

[Faith]

So sad when private Christian colleges decide to bully conservatives like every other public university.

[realcleanguy]

remember, Classical liberals on the 1970’s (Todays republicans) were branded by the Authoritarians (Democrats) at one time. And no this isn’t revisionism, it’s a fact. Those of us who came out of that generation got married, grew our hair long, gave our children flowery names, planted our own gardens to reduce costs, watered and traded with our neighbors, etc. Todays so-called “Liberals” grew up in wealthy homes, lived a sheltered life, never had to work for anything, and yes they were the very type of people we protested against in the 1970’s.

Its funny, my wife and I recycled when no one knew what it was (We learned this from our grandparents who went through WW2) Those same grandparents taught us about gardening, how to repair things rather than throw them out and but new ones, and how to live cheaply and how to save. Today I am trading eggs for navel oranges with a neighbor. I’ll give him 3 dozen eggs for a bag filled with navel oranges. My chickens are range fed. We use no chemicals on the property for weeds, growing, etc. Everything is natural. Total hippies, totally opposite of todays liberals who live in the big cities and wear the newest fashions, and drink 6.00 cups of coffee, and complain why they can’t save.....

[Iron Munro]

Siena is a Catholic College near Albany NY.

CINO

Catholic In Name Only

[Slyfox]

I got a D- on a positive paper I wrote on Barry Goldwater's "Conscience of a Conservative." That book was on the professor's list of books to choose from and when I reminded him that it was on his list he said, "Well, I don't like Barry Goldwater." He eventually gave me a C- when in all my other classes I did not get anything under a B+.

I am still pissed about it.

[Bookshelf]

Siena Cost (no aid)
Tuition and fees $34,611
+ Room and board $14,105
+ Other expenses $3,520
Total cost $52,236

[falcon99]

And of course, the professor’s comments positively “ [affected] the health, welfare, and/or safety” of campus community members “ This is so typical of the left.

[Sopater]

Butler said that the climate of hostility against conservative students—deeply concerned him.

It sounds like he is just beginning to see what they are truly capable of.

[loveliberty2]

Sad example of the deterioration of education for citizens in a nation which celebrated the Bicentennial of its Constitution for self-government in a society whose founding principles included the premise of free individuals and limited government little more than 30 years ago!

Possessing a clear understanding of the failure of previous civilizations to achieve and sustain freedom for individuals, our forefathers discovered some timeless truths about human nature, the struggle for individual liberty, the human tendency toward abuse of power, and the means for curbing that tendency through Constitutional self-government. Jefferson's Bill For The More General Diffusion Of Knowledge For Virginia declared:

"...experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government), those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate...the minds of the people...to give them knowledge of those facts, which history exhibiteth. History, by apprizing them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future...it will qualify them judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.."

Education was not perceived by the Founders to be a mere process for teaching basic skills. It was much, much more. Educa­tion included the very process by which the people of America would understand and be able to preserve their liberty and secure their Creator-endowed rights. Understanding the nature and origin of their rights and the means of preserving them, the people would be capable of self government, for they would recognize any threats to liberty and "nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud." (Adams)

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Footnote:  Our Ageless Constitution, W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III:  ISBN 0-937047-01-5

[lastchance]

It should not surprise anyone. They draw their staff both teachers and administration from the same poisoned education college pool as secular schools. The only difference is some give lip service to the Catholic faith.