Posted on 11/15/2003 6:42:14 PM PST by StopGlobalWhining
The Penn State Office of Multicultural Affairs has as its mission: "Diversity among students and faculty is a top priority for the dean and the faculty." The Assistant Dean says on its Web site, "I am dedicated to ensuring that our college achieves its recruitment and retention goals of diversity by involving our entire community." When liberals talk about diversity, "our entire community" means "only liberals."
Liberals invented diversity as a means of masking their immoral and socialist agenda as an all-inclusive melting pot of ideas. Once universities caught on to the new diversity fad, liberals could call anyone who disagreed with them a racist or "non-inclusive." Diversity is a cute word that really just means "liberal." Since nothing makes a liberal angrier than to be called liberal, they had to find some way to replace that nasty "L" word without squandering all of the pot-smoking, baby-killing, anti-Christian ideas that had shaped their sorry stumble out of the '60s.
By hiding behind the barrier of diversity, liberals can freely fire away without fear of challenge. They can just cry racist if they're opposed. Republicans disapprove of affirmative action, so Al Gore concluded to a crowd of blacks, "The Republicans don't even want to count you in the next Census."
Liberals claim to be finishing the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. but at its core, diversity goes against what King envisioned. He dreamed that his children would, "...one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." The diversity movement is doing exactly the opposite today.
Liberals cheered for the University of Michigan's admissions policy that gave black applicants extra points just for being black.
There's nothing diverse about diversity at all. Diversity is a front for a liberal, secularist agenda and Penn State has endorsed it as objective "tolerance." The Office of Multicultural Affairs spreads an anti-war, anti-Christian and a one-sided view through mass e-mails.
In March 2003, the Office of Multicultural Affairs sent a completely absurd e-mail to its listserv urging students to oppose the war in Iraq by signing an online petition.
The e-mail said that the United Nations was collecting signatures to stop the United States from liberating Iraq. While it is true that the United Nations was doing everything it could to appease Saddam Hussein at the time, accepting online signatures from college students seems slightly ridiculous.
The e-mail would have been more appropriate for Barbara Streisand to send to her elitist liberal friends than for a diversity-promoting office at a major university to send to students.
Even if the e-mail did represent one view of the impending war in Iraq, the diversity-crazed Office of Multicultural Affairs should have jumped at the chance to send out a similar e-mail supporting a pro-war stance. After all, that would have increased the diversity of debate about the war. Since disagreeing with liberals doesn't qualify as "diverse," no such e-mail was ever sent.
On Oct. 20, the Office of Multicultural Affairs sent another chain letter e-mail. This time it was a transcript of a speech given by a high school principal in Kingston, Tennessee before a football game. The sender wrote a short message describing the horrific content to come, "Folks, I am so completely outraged. What is this world coming to?"
The principal's speech began, "It has always been the custom ... to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and country. Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a prayer is a violation of federal case law." The principal goes on to explain how public schools have become havens for teaching about homosexuality, handing out condoms, and portraying those with strong Christian values as "simple-minded" and "ignorant."
He concludes his speech by saying, "If you feel inspired to honor, praise and thank God and ask him, in the name of Jesus, to bless this event, please feel free to do so."
Since Christianity is not part of diversity, this principal's speech warranted outrage among the multicultural crowd. In response to a Christian man exercising his First Amendment right, the e-mail's sender wrote of the speech, "It shows clearly just how far this country has gone in the wrong direction."
Again the Office of Multicultural Affairs failed to fulfill its pledge of diversity by not sending out an e-mail that presented the opposite viewpoint. Penn State's diversity mission statement does not include sending mass e-mails chastising Christian beliefs as taking the country in the "wrong direction." Perhaps it was an honest oversight and soon multicultural affairs will send an e-mail scolding former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian who was arrested for supporting terrorism; he is the one taking America in the "wrong direction."
In a Nov. 5 e-mail to their listerv, the multicultural liberals forwarded an account of Iraq war POW Shoshana Johnson's fight to receive a fair disability benefit. Johnson was captured along with the more-heralded Jessica Lynch. While Lynch received an 80 percent benefit, Johnson only received a 30 percent benefit.
The e-mail explained how Johnson's family is seeking the help of professional race-baiter Jesse Jackson and then insinuated that the only reason Lynch was awarded a bigger benefit was because she is white. It concluded with this call to action, "I ask that you forward this e-mail on to all and inform others of this latest racial attack."
By supporting this kind of racial warfare, multicultural affairs is partaking in the same actions for which liberals lambasted Rush Limbaugh last month. He said Donovan McNabb garnered undeserved praise because he is black, and this "diverse" e-mail says that Lynch received a larger benefit because she is white. Where are those multicultural, politically correct
liberals who cried "racist" before? Shouldn't multicultural affairs apologize for supporting such an anti-white stance? Multicultural Affairs is nothing more than an organization with a liberal agenda legitimized as a university office under the phony umbrella of diversity.
Imagine the liberal outrage if the university sent mass e-mails to students urging support for the war, criticizing Muslim faith, or claiming that blacks get preferential treatment; they would not stand for such "intolerance." Disseminating a slanted perspective in the form of anti-war chain letters, e-mails that accuse Christians of taking the country in the "wrong direction," and claims that the Army prefers whites illustrates that liberals never intended diversity and tolerance to include anyone who disagrees with them.
Andrew Criado is a senior majoring in advertising and a Daily Collegian columnist. His e-mail address is drewc@psu.edu.
I hope he doesn't find himself suspended for hate speech, insensitivity and intolerance. He is a senior, so presumably is close to graduation, unless the administration places him under disciplinary probation and requires him to take some courses in women's studies, homosexual sensitivity, or black studies.
If you agree with his comments, you may want to e-mail him a short note of support.
This is just another reason why, as an embarrassed lifetime member of Penn State's alumni association, I refuse to give any more money to my alma mater. Not one more stinking dime for them.
Truer words were never spoken.
Rather than ripping it up, I'd suggest sending a reply explaining exactly why you're not contributing. There are undoubtedly many non-responses to these letters; yours would just be one of many. A specific list of your reasons for not contributing could get their attention.
I remember when PSU considered academics to be it's true strength. Today, dumbing down the curriculum, lowering academic standards to admit unqualified uneducated and diseducated applicants, has relegated undergraduate academics to a secondary priority, all in the name of diversity and multiculturism.
I encourage all PSU alums to carefully examine the ballots you receive next year for the Board of Trustees, and stop just throwing them away or voting for the incumbents.
Instead, post your questions here on FR to get a variety of opinions on which trustee candidates can best fix the mess that exists today with the Penn State administration.
Actually, this year's football recuiting class (Fall 2004), is ranked near the top in the nation. #3 by one recent poll I saw.
I'm a Joe Paterno fan for the overall contribution he has made to Penn State at all levels. He has enforced academic standards that few programs in the top 25 ranked football teams can challenge. These past several years haven't been the greatest, but Joe has a network of successful former graduates who work to find good career employment positions to his players after they get their degrees.
Here's my proposal: Make Joe Paterno the president of Penn State to replace Graham Spanier. Make Spanier the president of the RIAA or something. Joe Paterno is a serious academic with an Ivy League (Brown U.) masters degree in English. He would make a fine role model for PSU students.
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