Posted on 09/29/2005 1:15:33 PM PDT by libber-tarian
...found on the web:
Two words. At Bucknell University, that's all it takes to get dragged into the President's Office for a half-hour discussion of word choice. And these aren't offensive words, at least not out here in the real world. But Bucknell apparently has a different definition of what is and is not acceptable.
On August 29th, the Bucknell University Conservatives Club sent out a campus-wide e-mail announcing an upcoming speaker: Major John Krenson, who had been in Afghanistan "hunting terrorists." Those two words--"hunting terrorists"--resulted in three students being called to Bucknell's Office of the President by Kathy Owens, the Executive Assistant to the President.
According to the students, when they arrived at the President's Office for the meeting, Ms. Owens held up a print-out of the offending e-mail and said "we have a problem here," telling the students that the words "hunting terrorists" were offensive. For the next half-hour, the three students were given a lecture on inappropriate phrasing.
(Excerpt) Read more at brain-terminal.com ...
"hunting freedom fighters"?
Well that's why those College President's get the big bucks.
This kind of crap makes my blood boil.
Major John Krenson, who had been in Afghanistan "hunting terrorists."Get some!
Well if "hunting Terrorists" is offensive, "Child molesting porcinophiles" is probably going too far as well.
Two words that strike horror into leftists.
My guess is they'd far prefer "pursuing freedom fighters."
bttt for later read.
Then I guess "Wasting OBL loving haji rag heads" is then completely out...
These students need to file a lawsuit (as much as I hate lawsuits) to put this school administrator on the hot seat. Lets see how she justifies this in a court of law! You know damn well she doesn't haul in any of the A.N.S.W.E.R crowd into her office when they call OUR troops murders!
LOL! Same attitude I had when I saw that.
Here's her email address:
kowens@bucknell.edu
How about "killing terrorists"?
"Embarking on a metaphysical journey, getting in touch with the relational reality of diverse viewpoints and exploring one's inner self for enlightenment towards interaction."
Dr. Kathleen Owens
Executive Assistant to the President /
Assistant Secretary to the Board of Trustees
220 Marts Hall
570-577-1573
kowens@bucknell.edu
Just send her an e-mail with these words in it: hunting terrorists
Apparently it is a hard path, to be a conservative at Bucknell. Here's an earlier thread, "Listening to talk radio could get you expelled from Bucknell."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1004879/posts
Pretty scary stuff. Bucknell is not far from here and this is a very rural, middle America region of Pennsylvania. Most parents here would happily send their children to Bucknell and I daresay most of them have no idea what they'd be getting the kids into.
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