Crickets Chirp at Palm Beach Post Over Student Conservative Club Kicked Out of Local College Event

NewsBusters ^ | September 16, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

EEK!

There is a conservative student group at our sacred campus club rush. Remove them immediately!

Such was the attitude of Palm Beach State College administrator Olivia Ford-Morris at the sight of a Young Americans for Freedom table. You can see and hear the extreme urgency in the attitude and voice of Ms Ford-Morris accompanied by campus security guards in this video as she demands the students at the YAF table "Pull it up!" Although Ford-Morris claimed she didn't remember receiving either an e-mail or a phone call from YAF about getting a table for club rush, evidence is now contradicting that claim (below the fold).

So this is obviously a great story of campus censorship that the Palm Beach Post would love to cover since it happened locally? Wrong. The only comment from the Palm Beach Post on this incident is the sound of crickets chirping. To get information on what happened at Palm Beach State College you would need to check sites on the blogosphere such as Orlando Political Press:

(Lake Worth, FL) On Tuesday September 7, 2010 at around 11:00am one Palm Beach State College (PBSC) student and two Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) members, state chairman Daniel P. Diaz and state vice chairman Eddie Shaffer, were shut down and had campus police called on them after tabling and recruiting during club rush at the College. The PBSC student, Christina Beattie, had received prior permission from college administrator Olivia Ford-Morris to promote her organization on campus via telephone and email communication.

[PJ-Comix]

Note the absolute URGENCY of that college administrator to get the YAF folks removed from club rush. So glad a video got that on record.

[MuttTheHoople]

The establishment Pigs coming down on the students. THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING! THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING! THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING!!!

[AlexW]

This needs to go NATIONAL.
The filthy Marxist are doing this everywhere, and need to be exposed as the roaches and RATS that they are.

[Mygirlsmom]

Statement of Harassment Policy: Palm Beach State College is committed to an academic and working environment free from harassment. Referred to collectively and further defined below, harassment of any nature is prohibited whether based on an individual’s race, color, creed, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, marital status, veteran status, or disability. Harassment threatens the legitimate expectation of all members of the College community that the campus environment will be conducive to work or study.....

The College will take prompt disciplinary action against individuals, including third parties, at any locations who engage in actions that violate this policy.

II. Scope of Policy: This policy applies to all full-time, part-time and temporary employees, administrators,

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[Kharis13]

As I initially read the story, I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the administrator. I’m sure she does talk with hundreds of people and it’s possible that she didn’t recall this particular conversation.

However, after learning there is email evidence, phone call log evidence, AND the adminstrator is a Facebook fan of our Dear Leader and Michael Moore, I think it’s safe to say she’s lying.

Darkness cannot exist in the light, and light is exactly what this conservative group was spreading about Obummer and his disastrous policies.

[Carlucci]

I wonder what that “New Guard” book or pamphlet that the administrator is holding is about?

[Minn]

Olivia Morris-Ford
Student Activites Coordinator
M.Ed., Educational Leadership—Higher Ed
Florida Atlantic University
morriso@palmbeachstate.edu

[Mygirlsmom]

As I initially read the story, I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the administrator. I’m sure she does talk with hundreds of people and it’s possible that she didn’t recall this particular conversation.

A true professional would not have handled this matter this way regardless of whether or not she received an application from the group. You don't make a huge spectacle in front of everyone, and call the campus cops as if the group were a bunch of common criminals.

[PJ-Comix]

Notice in the video that the YAF guy said he talked to the Dean of Students about attending club rush. Soooo... the next step would be to check with that Dean. The Palm Beach Post should, but won’t, be doing this so it is up to the folks in the blogosphere to check with the Dean.

[wally_bert]

They are thought criminals so it is OK.

[flowerplough]

You don't make a huge spectacle in front of everyone, and call the campus cops as if the group were a bunch of common criminals, unless you're an hysterical, fat, ignorant, scared, under-qualified, affirmative-action-hire, liberal academic. Then you call the cops on campus conservatives. And later you probably privately brag about calling the campus cops on the conservative kids.

[BamaAndy]

Well stated.

[ladyjane]

This is how third world countries are run.

[ladyjane]

Dennis P. Gallon
President
Phone: (561) 868-3500
Lake Worth Location
4200 Congress Avenue
Lake Worth, FL 33461
Office: AD 208
Email: Gallond@palmbeachstate.edu

[tarawa]

self ping for later...