Watchdog group ponders college suits

Washington Times ^ | 12/12/03 | Jon Ward

[kattracks]

An education watchdog group is charging several colleges around the country with silencing free speech after shutting down bake sales and is considering legal action.

The "affirmative action bake sales," held by Republican and libertarian groups are modeled after "wage gap" bake sales held by student feminist groups, have sold cookies and brownies at different prices depending on student's race and sex to protest college policies that determine admissions based on such factors.

[irv]

The group was found guilty of financial misconduct for not having an approved cash box ....
[and] was also found guilty of "ineffectual leadership," for not specifically stating that the bake sale was a political protest.

Who needs satire when you have the truth?

[WackyKat]

At one, two angry students at the University of Washington who were opposed to the bake-sale protest threatened the participating students and had to be restrained by police when they ripped down signs and threw cookies. A school official then told the College Republicans, the group holding the sale, to take down their table and disperse. "It sets a horrible precedent on campus, that if you want to stop someone's free speech, just get violent," said Jason Chambers, a senior at UW and president of the College Republicans club. But Jerry Grinstein, president of the University of Washington's Board of Regents, supported shutting down the bake sale and wrote in a letter to the student newspaper: "The 'statements' of the UW College Republicans in putting on a bake sale about affirmative action were tasteless, and hurtful to many members of the university community. ... We pledge our best efforts to foster a welcoming environment for a diverse university community."

Well, that's typical. The scum that violently attack the AA opponents aren't condemned, instead the administration goes after the victims of the attack and supports the suppression of their speech.

It's just so "hurtful" if you can't discriminate against white studentss, isn't it?

I hope they sue

[lelio]

Another article on it. It looks like the Northwestern College Republicans are trying to wiggle out of it by saying that they weren't associated with it.

The Objectivist Club is under investigation as a "fund raiser cannot adovacate political positions" I wonder if this applies to anything raising money for Palenstinians?

[longtermmemmory]

Is there first amendment rights in a university? Could these universities even survive a true exchange of ideas? The left would surly evaporate.

These bake sales are pure political speech.

I know in high school student speech rights are limited but that is a function of age.

[JoJo Gunn]

I hope they sue as well.

Diversity is a Commie code word for anti-white and anti-conservative.

The Klan has returned to it's roots, on the Left....