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College Republicans receive verdict
Grand Valley Lanthorn ^ | April 21, 2005 | Jenna Carlesso

Posted on 04/22/2005 4:51:15 PM PDT by Austin Willard Wright

Decisions and consequences were made and issued regarding the bake sale held March 21 by the College Republicans at Grand Valley State University.

On April 13 the Student Organization Review Board issued a written decision to the College Republicans, finding them in violation of the student code concerning discrimination, caused by their bake sale which sold cupcakes to varying races and genders at different prices. The organization has been put on a probation period, which will last until Dec. 1.

[The Republicans] just need to come up with a leadership development plan and review the rules for the future,” Burke said.

SORB requested that the Republicans make a public apology.

The group’s former president, sophomore Kyle Rausch, said he felt it was better to stand on principle and resign than attach his name to an apology letter.

“I am not aware of the group’s plans,” Rausch said. “I no longer consider myself part of an organization which is so willing to apologize for their opinions.”

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


TOPICS: US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: academia; campusfreespeech; grovelling; michigan; pc; preferences; treachery
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The College Republicans at Grand Valley State keep appeasing the administration and the administration responds by twisting the knife. Fortunately, there is one hero in this mess: Kyle Rausch.
1 posted on 04/22/2005 4:51:15 PM PDT by Austin Willard Wright
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"Decisions and consequences were made"

Who wrote this drivel? Consequences were made? Maybe they should worry a little bit more about teaching English than focusing on PCBS.


2 posted on 04/22/2005 4:53:26 PM PDT by republicofdavis
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So a student group is forced to apologize for a symbolic representation of what the university itself does at +4 magnitude?


3 posted on 04/22/2005 4:55:11 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Need quote from supporter)
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Sounds like the administrators of that particular school are all dumb as a board.

Since everybody knows the whole thing was about the school's "affirmative action" policies, and the cookie sale is a fair model for those policies, then their hand-picked management toadies on the Student Organization Review Board just bit their masters' hands!

I wouldn't apoligize to this bunch of klutzes for anything!

4 posted on 04/22/2005 4:55:57 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: republicofdavis

Apparently, the diversitycrats at Grand Valley State are also teaching the English composition courses.


5 posted on 04/22/2005 4:57:01 PM PDT by Austin Willard Wright
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The whole point is to show the ridiculousness of race-based classifications at the heart of affirmative action.


6 posted on 04/22/2005 4:58:26 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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what state is this in?


7 posted on 04/22/2005 4:59:42 PM PDT by ken21 (if you didn't see it on tv, then it didn't happen. /s)
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This is another shining example, UM being the brightest shining example, of why we need to cut the so called public universities in Michigan loose from the taxpayer's purse strings. They have all become UM wannabes that want to f#@k over anyone who doesn't think in lock step with the communist manifesto.


8 posted on 04/22/2005 5:00:29 PM PDT by RushLake (Permission from the UN...we don't need no stinking permission slip from the UN.)
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To: Austin Willard Wright

Kyle Rausch refuses to apologize for his opinions? Guess he can kiss his Senate career goodbye.


9 posted on 04/22/2005 5:00:57 PM PDT by fat city (Julius Rosenberg's soviet code name was "Liberal")
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To: thoughtomator
They should be forced to write on the chalkboard 1000 times:

Ï will never again do parody to show the administration as the horse's asses they are.
Ï will never again do parody to show the administration as the horse's asses they are.
Ï will never again do parody to show the administration as the horse's asses they are.
Ï will never again do parody to show the administration as the horse's asses they are.
Ï will never again do parody to show the administration as the horse's asses they are.
< / sarcasm >

10 posted on 04/22/2005 5:01:46 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
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To: ken21

Michigan


11 posted on 04/22/2005 5:08:04 PM PDT by SanDiegoRepublican
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To: Vigilanteman

Don't worry the Grand Valley Republicans, and their quisling advisor, will more than willing to write 1000 apologies on the blackboard or do anything else to "atone" for their crimes against the thought police.


12 posted on 04/22/2005 5:08:26 PM PDT by Austin Willard Wright
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To: ken21

Michigan


13 posted on 04/22/2005 5:09:02 PM PDT by SanDiegoRepublican
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To: Austin Willard Wright
After bending over for 30 years to every campus radical, the university has finally found a backbone versus dissent. The secret ingredient was that the dissent just had to be right-wing.

Unbelievable.

14 posted on 04/22/2005 5:10:08 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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This was much more about procedure than free speech, Burke said. The university supports free speech.

Yeah, about like Torquemada supported freedom of religion.

15 posted on 04/22/2005 5:10:11 PM PDT by DeFault User
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Didn't they get it wrong with the way they priced things at the bake sale? I thought it went something like........
make different flavors of cupcakes (or cookies)
sell them at different prices, based on the color of the CUPCAKE not the buyer!

This was done successfully at UC Berkeley and UC Davis.

16 posted on 04/22/2005 5:14:39 PM PDT by CAluvdubya (Don't let them Bork Bolton!)
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To: Austin Willard Wright; republicofdavis; thoughtomator; muawiyah; Unam Sanctam; ken21; RushLake; ...

Well, Comrade Kyle, welcome to re-education camp 1A - Fundamentals of Fascism.

17 posted on 04/22/2005 5:18:08 PM PDT by Enterprise (Abortion and "euthanasia" - the twin destroyers of the Democrat Party.)
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To: Austin Willard Wright

The entire point of the bake sale is to point out the absurdity of discriminatory practices such as those touted as affirmative action. How any college Republican could apologize for that is beyond me.


18 posted on 04/22/2005 5:19:27 PM PDT by Junior_G
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To: Austin Willard Wright

someday maybe they'll just send them to reindoctrination camps.


19 posted on 04/22/2005 5:23:29 PM PDT by ken21 (if you didn't see it on tv, then it didn't happen. /s)
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Come on now you smart Republican kids, surely you can come up with a clever marketing alternative. How about a bake sale where you charge the same price but hand out mail-in coupons that can be redeemed for a refund based on how the student chooses to fill out the refund request. Just give a bigger refund to anyone who checks the box next to 'minority'. That way you're not identifying anyone, just responding to how they fill out the 'application' for the refund. You know, like the university reviews applications for admission......


20 posted on 04/22/2005 5:23:38 PM PDT by hardworking (-O-U)
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