not even Double Secret Probation...???
Posted on 04/17/2006 6:41:51 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
April 13, 2006
To: UC Santa Cruz Community
From: Denice D. Denton, Chancellor, and David S. Kliger, Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
On April 11, at the UC Santa Cruz Career Fair, a small group of individuals violated the principles they claimed to embrace – those of peaceful assembly and freedom of speech. In using threatening and aggressive tactics to prevent interested students from contacting military recruiters, these protesters infringed on the rights of others and acted with intimidation, intolerance and disrespect. Many did so with their faces covered, unwilling to take public responsibility for their actions.
The university, like any public body, has established guidelines that protect rights of freedom of speech, expression and assembly. Moreover, this campus provides in its Principles of Community a clear statement of standards for behavior that it expects of all its members, including the expectation that reasoned discourse includes a free exchange of ideas with mutual respect and consideration of differences.
Despite repeated efforts to engage with the Students Against War group, to discuss the time, place, and manner in which their protest could occur safely, the group declined to communicate further. A letter to them on March 27 reiterated the desire to collaborate, but there was no response from the group.
We are extremely concerned by the behaviors of the approximately 75 protesters, whose actions are not consistent with the values of our campus community, including 15,000 students. We apologize on behalf of the campus to those whose rights were violated, and we will take appropriate disciplinary action against students who are found to have been in violation of campus policies.
In contrast to the disrespectful and sometimes dangerous behavior of the protesters, true character was demonstrated by the nearly 800 students who attended the career fair for its intended purpose and by the many faculty and staff who encountered the protesters with composure and self-control.
Our primary concern at the Career Fair was ensuring the safety of our students, faculty, staff and visitors. We also held the goal of protecting the rights of our students to have access to the 90 employers attending the event, including the military recruiters.
Although the situation was extremely volatile, staff, faculty, and military recruiters used admirable restraint to prevent a serious situation from escalating to a point where public safety would have been further jeopardized.
We thank all those students, staff and faculty who made the best of a difficult situation, and we appreciate the vast majority of our campus community who demonstrate the ideals of our democracy by respecting the rights of all individuals.
And I'm sending copies to the Chancellor.
You win a CBS Kewpie Doll.....
You got that right, to the tune of about $80 million bucks. I wonder if those protestors and/or their parents are willing to pick up the slack should Uncle Sugar turn the tap off.
Punks is too mild a word for these 8-year-olds with a filthy mouth in adult bodies.
Doesn't UC Santa Cruz care?
Losers, and "not too bright" is an understatement...
All such "protesters" (actually violent thugs if not outright terrorists) should be arrested, identified and be entered into a national database; any college or university are then found to be carrying them as students, instructors or staffmembers, they should immediately lose all federal funding.
It would have been nice if the 800 non protesters came to the defense of the recruiters and put a beating on the 75 communist punks.
Of course they knew. They have been aiding and abetting this anti-social leftwing crap for years. They are just getting what they have been asking for.
They are definitely at a loss for wits. We can call them nitwits;-)
not even Double Secret Probation...???
I'd let them study at Lubianca since they love to play Stalinists and Army Men.
Don't pray for the republic... pray for more ammo. Just kidding, sort of. I pray for the Republic too, but I think the liberal pu@@ies would be no match for an equal number of armed citizens ready to defend things to the bitter end if it comes to that. Plus they're anti-gun, they'd probably be more dangerous to themselves than us.
works for me... 8^)
this county, and the world for that matter, is just more liberal than it used to be... it is a dangerous road indeed.
That's what the threat of losing $81 million per year will do to the chancellor of one of the few institutions of higher learning weirder than Beserkley.
By the way, wasn't Hitler's title chancellor?
can't type today...
I don't think the universities have much to worry about. Despite the Supreme Court decision, neither Republicans nor Democrats will actually cut federal money (our taxes) going to universities, at least not until the voters at large get angry about anti-American and anti-capitalist faculties and administrators.
By the way, most universities talk about "diversity", but they are 95% leftist lunatics. They are so much alike that they are unaware of their own stench.
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