WSU ends “hecklers veto” aid but threatens conservative student’s graduation

TownHall.com ^ | December 17, 2005 | by Mark Tapscott

[BenLurkin]

"university administrators were paying students to heckle the production of a controversial play by a student author."

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[BenLurkin]

From the earlier column: "WSU President V. Lane Rollins later defended the hecklers, telling the campus student newspaper they "exercised their right of free speech in a very responsible manner by letting the writer and players know exactly how they felt."

So shouting someone down is now officially an exercise in free speech?

[I_like_good_things_too]

For your ping list? Any WSU grads?

[BenLurkin]

SOURCE:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/07/18/play


"The protesters, angry at the satire depicting the last of two days of the life of Jesus, forced the show to stop several times. At the behest of campus security guards concerned about a potential riot, Chris Lee, a theater major who wrote, directed, and portrayed the cross-dressing Lucifer in the play, self-censored one of the show’s songs. Instead of singing “I would do anything for God, but I won’t act black,” a parody of Meat Loaf’s “I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that,” the “black” was changed to “blank.”

"Along with jokes about gay people, AIDS, Hitler, and the use of “nigger,” another chorus that roiled audience members was the “And I will always hate Jews” refrain in the parody of Whitney Houston’s hit “I Will Always Love You.” And of course there was the scene where newborn babies were shot onto the stage, apparently from a Mormon mother’s offstage womb, and Jesus, like a good outfielder, caught all 16 of them."

[SouthTexas]

A sad day for protesters when they have to be paid to show up.

ROFLOL

[bigsigh]

Indication number 1006 that we pay too much in tax.

[bigfootbob]

take a look at this

[GSlob]

Why wouldn't they simply extend a hand with a "thumbs down" gesture? It is a dignified and traditional way to express disapproval without producing disruption. Some good manners ought to be caned into them.

[bigfootbob]

Thanks for confirming what I've thought and warned my kids about, not that they'd take any stoopid classes. I've always thought queer, ethnic and all the other liberal offerings Du jour, hurt your employment opportunities.

[popdonnelly]

I find this hard to believe. The school administration was paying hecklers? You know, a lot of people fought a long time for academic freedom. And this school is paying to close free speech down? That's an intolerable situation. The State is responsible for doing something about it.

[james500]

It's the grimy, sticky residue of 8 years of the Clintonites.

[jocon307]

I don't know, but this all sounds pretty amusing to me. In the South Park mode, which sometimes I love it and other times I turn it off and won't let it be shown. The christmas singing turd for example, that went way too far for me.

[clbiel]

Just forwarded it to a freind who works for (Up yer) WAZZU.
AND I'm glad my niece ISNT going there, as was once planned.

[sionnsar]

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[goodnesswins]

WOW....and the State thinks we should give them MORE AND MORE MONEY all the time! How special.

[phantomworker]

That's an intolerable situation.

Agree. Why do you suppose the school is nicknamed WAZZU?

They even fought a legal battle so no one is allowed to call them WAZZU on TV anymore. LOL!

[phantomworker]

http://admissions.ucsc.edu/discover/faq/finances.cfm#a1

$40K a year to go to UCSC! What are his parents thinking!!!

Tuition is only $7000 a year for UCSC. This kid pays $17K in out of state tuition and the rest is expenses.

Who would send a kid to UCSC for $40K a year! He should be holding a sign saying how stupid he is.