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DePaul U. bans use of chalk on sidewalks after pro-Trump messages offend
Washington Times ^ | April 15, 2016 | Kelly Riddell

Posted on 04/15/2016 10:13:48 PM PDT by Zakeet

DePaul University students, don't fear! There will be no more political "chalking" at your school.

Apparently, someone wrote - with chalk - on a campus sidewalk last week: "Make DePaul Great Again." The message sent students and staff into a tailspin. The xenophobia! The bigotry! The racism!

"While these chalk messages are part of national agendas in a heated political battle, they appeared on campus at a time of significant racial tension in our country and on college campuses. DePaul is no exception," DePaul's vice president for student affairs Eugene Zdziarski wrote in a campus-wide email obtained by Campus Reform. "The university has been addressing campus climate issues in an effort to provide an inclusive and supportive educational environment. In this context, many students, faculty and staff found the chalk messages offensive, hurtful and divisive."

Mr. Zdziarski cited the school's nonprofit status, which prohibits students from engaging in political activities that could be reflected as the university's "views or opinions."

So no more political chalking allowed.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; chalk; chicago; depaul; depauluniversity; education; election2016; illinois; miloyiannopoulos; newyork; trump
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You bad old Trumpsters need to stop your xenophobic and bigoted political chalking ... because it destroys their nice inclusive and supportive educational environment!

1 posted on 04/15/2016 10:13:48 PM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Chalk on a sidewalk...

Finally, something the university won’t allow.

Hmmm, is that progress?

Do you get expelled on the first offense? Which offense is deemed a fatal offense if you wished to remain on campus, taking your courses?


2 posted on 04/15/2016 10:15:46 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hey Ted, why are you taking one for the RNC/GOPe team, and not ours? Not that we don't know.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Soap stone? Spray paint? Dial soap? Ungrateful snot wusses.


3 posted on 04/15/2016 10:17:03 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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The 1st Amendment via chalk is offensive?

# DuPaul U. and protest in chalk.


4 posted on 04/15/2016 10:17:18 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Zakeet

Free speech ... what’s that?


5 posted on 04/15/2016 10:18:20 PM PDT by doc1019 (Cruz)
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To: DoughtyOne

I think if I saw some chalk writing on a sidewalk I would have the vapors.


6 posted on 04/15/2016 10:18:39 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: rktman

Seems to me that chalk is harmless. First shower and it’s gone.

If this was for Hillary or Bernie, there wouldn’t be a peep about it.


7 posted on 04/15/2016 10:19:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hey Ted, why are you taking one for the RNC/GOPe team, and not ours? Not that we don't know.)
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To: Zakeet

Brave stand on the War on Chalk.


8 posted on 04/15/2016 10:19:51 PM PDT by proust (Texans for Trump!)
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To: MarvinStinson

I know. They should have cots every ten meters around campus.

This could cause fatalities.


9 posted on 04/15/2016 10:20:53 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hey Ted, why are you taking one for the RNC/GOPe team, and not ours? Not that we don't know.)
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To: Zakeet
The students need to go on a global field trip to some decidedly unsafe spaces. Preferably in the Muslim world. Maybe for a whole semester. Might give them some perspective.
10 posted on 04/15/2016 10:22:37 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Zakeet

Imagine, thinking DePaul could be great again...


11 posted on 04/15/2016 10:23:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hey Ted, why are you taking one for the RNC/GOPe team, and not ours? Not that we don't know.)
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To: Zakeet

Well there you go, now the Trump supporters are responsible for the cancellation of the long planned Hopscotch Tournament.


12 posted on 04/15/2016 10:27:14 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Zakeet

Diversity privilege.


13 posted on 04/15/2016 10:28:01 PM PDT by period end of story (Give me a firm spot, and I will move the world.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I liked “Blue Lives Matter,” referencing their mascot (the Blue Demons).

“Offensive and hurtful?” Only in millennial cupcake America.


14 posted on 04/15/2016 10:28:16 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Zakeet
Chalk on the sidewalk,

Writing on the wall,

Everybody knows it,

I dis Paul!

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De Paul, De Paul, curled in a ball!

De Paul, De Paul, hear the squall!

15 posted on 04/15/2016 10:28:35 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I honestly never thought I’d see such nonsense at our universities.

My mind doesn’t even function like this.

Safe places?

Chalk gives people the vapors?

Good freakin grief!


16 posted on 04/15/2016 10:31:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hey Ted, why are you taking one for the RNC/GOPe team, and not ours? Not that we don't know.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I know, it’s too alien a mindset for older generations like ours fathom. Those kids will be in for the shock of their lives when entering the real world, frantically searching in vain for their ever-elusive “safe spaces.”


17 posted on 04/15/2016 10:36:57 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Zakeet

Hitler and Stalin and Mao are all smiling from hell with all this PC!!


18 posted on 04/15/2016 10:43:49 PM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: Blue Jays
Are there any FReepers near Chicago,IL who wish to make a visit to campus with a big ol' box of chalk?
It would be a FReeper prank that would seriesly go down in history. I am totally series.

19 posted on 04/15/2016 10:44:21 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Zakeet

20 posted on 04/15/2016 10:45:13 PM PDT by LucyT
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