[PSU USG] Senator resigns due to photos [Penn State College Republicans]

The Digital Collegian [Penn State student newspaper] ^ | December 11, 2003 | Natalie Hrubos

[StopGlobalWhining]

Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Pollock/Nittany Sen. Vicky Cangelosi announced her resignation and intention to withdraw at Tuesday's Senate meeting.

She said she no longer feels safe at the university and that she feels Penn State President Graham Spanier put her in danger by including a link to Penn State's online student directory in his written public statement about the pictures. As a result, she removed her address from the directory and later decided to withdraw from the university.

This is an example of the pressure and duress the College Republicans have been subjected to in the days since this story became a daily front-page continuing soap opera of liberal hate speech.

Vicky Cangelosi has every right to be fearful of her safety, as evidenced by the statement of the PSU campus cops and the antagonism that Graham Spanier has directed toward all conservative students at Penn State.

Offended conservatives are laughed at and ridiculed, as in the case of the death threat made by the black student in which the "Penn State police decided that Black Caucus members were voicing opinions but were not disorderly."

See previous story about the CR Halloween party at Web site owner makes apology at post #27 and in the text of the posted article.

If Vicky Cangelosi was to be subjected to an investigation of her character by the USG, then I think the same should happen to convicted bike thief Takeem Morgan. and the same for Graham Spanier. Let's have his character examined by an outside independent organiztion, and let's go back and look a little more closely at his tenure at the University of Nebraska, and even before that.

If it's fair to subject Vicky to such a humiliating experience, then why should Spanier not have to be investigated as well?

[Bogey78O]

You can't even make fun of people if there's the possiblity that somone else would be offended.

[APFel]

Grasping at straws to make Republicans appear racist? You be the judge.

[witnesstothefall]

When conservatives party in black face and KKK sheets, there's no defending them in the court of public opinion.

If Penn State's students hadn't learned this lesson before the party, then at least now they've received a modern education in reality.

How many minorities were at the party? If none, it looks even worse.

[McGavin999]

EVERY republican parent ought to withdraw their kids from the university and then they all ought to file a class action suit.

[fiscally_right]

Yeah right.. This girl is paranoid delusional. I go to PSU. The link to the directory is posted at the bottom of everything, it isn't some conspiracy to incite violence against this girl.

I see absolutely no reason for this girl to withdraw. The president of College Republicans apologized for the pictures (and rightly so), all thats left is a bit of controversy and dumb sophomoric jackasses playing at politics at our USG Senate.

[fiscally_right]

More like republicans INVITING the label 'racist' upon themselves.

[razorback-bert]

Hmmm, this is now botag.net

[StopGlobalWhining]

The single individual that appeared at the party in blackface was not mocking black people, but rather a single individual, the vice president of the USG, Takeem Morgan.

Morgan was recently convicted of stealing the bike of a female student. Takeem Morgan happens to be black, and he is who was being made fun of at the party.

In my opinion, he deserved it. Let's have Takeem Morgan's character investigated!

[expatpat]

Students have always been irreverent. The whiners should move on!

An old Chines proverb has it that it is as bad to take offense as it is to give it.

[witnesstothefall]

Whiners should move on

Gee where have we heard that before? At worst this is a case of overt racism. At minimum, its a case of racial insensitivity on a campus with a history of racial tension.

They should've known better, and now they do. When did respect stop being a central conservative value?

[WackyKat]

If Penn State's students hadn't learned this lesson before the party, then at least now they've received a modern education in reality.

Yeah, those death threats against Ms. Cangelosi really taught her a lesson, didn't they?

Racial intimindation is fine with you as long as the target is a "whitey", right?

[StopGlobalWhining]

Previous thread (December 10) is at: USG debates photos [Penn State College Republicans]

[witnesstothefall]

No, of course not. Any death threats are wrong. What's your point? Do the subsequent and alleged threats somehow justify something in your mind?

Try removing the giant chip off your shoulder.

[litany_of_lies]

If you want to investigate Spanier, I suggest you start by seeing if he was in charge of the University of Nebraska when Lawrence Phillips played there.

Phillips, as I recall, seriously abused and injured his "girlfriend," maybe more than once, and was I believe arrested and convicted, but somehow still allowed to play in the final games of the season and the post-season bowl game.

The above is why I will never hold former Nebraska coach and now Republican Congressman Tom Osborne in the high regard so many others do. The Phillips situation is one of what I recall are many examples of players running amok without any consequences.

As to Spanier, if he was in charge at Nebraska at the time, he clearly sat around and did nothing to protect whatever may still exist of the good name of the University of Nebraska. He seems well on his way to ruining Penn State.

[Coroner]

You hit it right on the head. They were idiots who only set conservatism back by posting pics while in blackface on the WORLD-WIDE web for all to see. Nominate them for Darwin awards!!

[StopGlobalWhining]

Oops! That was the previous Collegian story. The previous FR thread was at: USG debates photos [Penn State College Republicans]

[StopGlobalWhining]

If you want to investigate Spanier, I suggest you start by seeing if he was in charge of the University of Nebraska when Lawrence Phillips played there.

Wow! Thanks.

That wasn't the incident I was thinking of, but it sounds worthy of investigation. If Spanier wants to pick on relatively defensive students, he should be willing to under an investigation of his own character.

I would ask all you who have been reading these threads, if you have any information about Graham Spaniers past that may demonstrate hypocrisy, or actions that may call into question his character or ability to lead a university, please post them on FR.

If you are a Pennsylvania resident, a PSU student from anywhere, or the parent of a PSU student, and you have information that may be relevant in a character investigation of Graham Spanier for purposes of a lawsuit, please post it on Free Republic.

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