Posted on 12/05/2006 2:31:10 AM PST by ajolympian2004
My comment, "Apparently it's still okay to burn an American flag on campus, but you can be charged with hate speech for walking on a Hezbollah or Hamas terrorist flag."
Organization says (San Francisco State University) College Republicans were in the wrong
Preceding an ongoing investigation into SF State College Republican behavior, the Associated Students board unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the student group for purposely stomping on flags containing the Arabic symbol for God.
“Associated Students, Inc. deems the College Republicans’ actions as contrary to university values and feel they should be held accountable by the university for their actions,” the resolution says.
The Nov. 15 resolution comes on the heels of several student and student organization complaints at board meetings and the Office of Student Programs and Leadership Development, or OSPLD, which has also sparked a separate investigation and assembly of a special panel to decide if the College Republicans did indeed violate the university’s conduct rules.
The resolution cited a rule outlined in the university’s Strategic Plan saying, “SFSU facilitates teaching, learning and work experiences among students, faculty and staff that promote equity and social justice within a respectful and safe environment.”
Moreover, the resolution sets the stage for the College Republicans possibly losing official student group status and or ASi funding.
Amid heavy campus police presence at an Oct. 17 anti-terrorism rally in Malcolm X Plaza, some members of the crowd turned angry when the College Republicans stepped on homemade Hezbollah and Hamas flags, though the student group claims they were not initially aware the flags contained the Arabic symbol for God.
After that, the College Republican-organized rally dissolved into a heated shouting match between the group and a mix of students, including some Muslim students, eventually resulting in formal complaints to student representatives.
‘They were voicing their concerns that this event was even allowed. They were offended,” said Kimberly Castillo, board member and chair of University Affairs, the committee that drafted the resolution. “We felt it our duty to respond.”
Administrators have been criticized for even allowing the rally to take place.
“The actions on the part of the College Republicans amount to no more than hateful religious intolerance, and constitutes an attempt to defy policies outlined and defined by San Francisco State University’s values,” the resolution says. “Members… pre-mediated the stomping of the flags knowing it would offend some people and possibly incite violence.”
ASi board members Joicy Serrano and Faith Cushenberry have been appointed to the Student Organization Hearing Panel, which will convene when the OSPLD investigation concludes.
Joey Greenwell, director of the OSPLD, declined to comment and did not give a time frame when it might be finished, saying all matters of the investigation are confidential.
The College Republicans said they will take legal action against the university if sanctions are imposed upon them, citing their First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
Though ASi has taken a public stance denouncing the group before the investigation is over, Castillo said so far the resolution is the “facts speaking for themselves” not necessarily a license to take action against the College Republicans.
“We still want to wait for due process,” Castillo said.
Even so, the resolution says if the SOHP finds the College Republicans did violate University policies and purposely engaged in hateful speech they “will suspend any further funding of this organization’s programming.”
Part I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch6cERm1tig
Part II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v_zSCCWBPI
The official site for the SFSU College Republicans http://www.gatorgop.com/
I found out about this at Hannity Forums in a thread posted by the VP of the SFSU College Republicans here - http://www.hannity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=205341
Too bad. Well now that they know so next time they can take a dump on them and apply for an NEA grant to promote their future artistic endeavors.
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is SF anything but muslim training camps anymore?
Have these sold-out dhimmis ever heard of the First Amendment? Of course they have, they have no problem at all with American and Israeli flags routinely being burned during lefty terror advocacy events on campus. Does the Bush administration have the guts to initiate a civil rights investigation over this blatant attack by a state institution on the First Amendment's free speech and establishment of religion clauses? It is to laugh.
We are on the brink of civil war, folks.
We may be but "we" have all the good guns.
:-)
San Fransicko (University) Values strike again...
ARE YOU KIDDING?????
Its amazing isnt it?
I am amazed every morning as I read more and more about what is happening in our Institutions of higher learning.
Get your kids a trade and keep them out of college.
College Professors and the educated have a habit of looking down on the uneducated as though they have no intelligence. They sit and they read of how only educated people have a right to thoughts,becasue they have read the thoughts of the scholars and those with infinite wisdom who have written these scholarly works. They have studied the writings of Chomsky, Lenin amd Marx ,they are so above the ignorant masses that they should be the ones who decide what will be taught and what shall be banned.
IMO too much emphasis is placed on political science and social studies and not enough on Mathematics, Physics,Biology, and Business. Kids today are getting brainwashed ,not educated. But thats me, I barely got out of High school, who am I to tell these brilliant liberal,social engineering ,commie loveing, instructors of todays future citizens what to teach and how to teach it.
According to Liberals like Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, Schumer, Kennedy, Clinton, it's okay to trash anything American. Just don't tread on our enemies flag or rights. No Liberal has met a terrorist they didn't love and feel sorry for.
We also have the majority of the military on our side...
It is just like Madison. When we have rallies, the moonbats always show up and ruin things, and we don't get violent like them. But, when we show up at their anti-America rallies to counterprotest, the moonbats get violent.
If we are it will be an easy win. They don't believe in guns remember?
apply the hate speech to ALL flags- otherwise zip the lip! http://sacredscoop.com
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
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