To h*ll with confrontation...how about prosecution for theft? Incidentally, have you ever asked these anti-American lefties where their tolerance for the conservative viewpoint disappeared to? Love to hear their response...keep up the good work!
Posted on 05/18/2003 11:45:13 AM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
Sunday, May 18, 2003 By Claudia Cowan
SAN FRANCISCO — Like thousands of other conservative-minded college students across the country, some at U.C.-Berkeley (search) are waging war against what they call rampant liberalism on campuses. Their weapon: a right-leaning monthly newspaper called The California Patriot (search).
“We like to be watchdogs,” said Seth Norman, the managing editor of the Patriot.
In fact, more students than ever are taking their minority opinions into the public domain to balance out the messages their peers are getting in the classroom at school.
From the Patriot and The Stanford Review to The Yale Free Press, a growing number of conservative periodicals are now circulating online or on campus – 50 percent more than two years ago, according to Collegiate Network (search), an organization that helps such papers get off the ground.
“In the last year, 35 colleges have contacted us, and of those colleges, 18 have started new conservative publications,” said Bryan Auchterlonie, executive director of the Collegiate Network.
One reason for the sudden increase? The aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when many students became disenchanted with their mostly liberal professors who suggested that the U.S. had it coming.
“Almost every professor here has a political agenda and almost every professor here is pushing that agenda,” said Norman. “The university is moving to take away guidelines that would restrict pushing your political agenda in classrooms, which is one of the stories that we’ve covered.”
The conservative college papers have generally been sticking to issues that affect students. One issue that's been covered, for example, is whether tuition money is being used to fund anti-war rallies without allowing any alternative speakers or opinions.
“It’s not necessarily even about conservatism as an ideology – it’s about showing people that there’s more than one point of view out there,” said Piotr Kosicki, editor-in-chief of The Stanford Review.
The students admit that there are risks involved in taking on liberal teachers and administrators. At Berkeley, thousands of copies of a controversial right-wing newspaper were recently stolen, and student reporters have received death threats.
But since most students form their political beliefs during their college years, those who work for the conservative publications say they feel obligated to present the other side.
"Because we live in such a liberal bastion, we have a duty to provide the other half of the balanced education for students," said Norman.
This hints that the teachers and administrators maybe making the death threats. HMMM...I thought liberals were tolerant and understanding. I think they have been lying to us.
To h*ll with confrontation...how about prosecution for theft? Incidentally, have you ever asked these anti-American lefties where their tolerance for the conservative viewpoint disappeared to? Love to hear their response...keep up the good work!
Next time, feature the thief's photo on the front page of your newspaper.
Furthermore, I'd have called the cops and tried to prosecute her, but I'm a born trouble maker.
And...??? You surely didn't let a fish like this go? Tell me you at least took pictures and wrote a page 1 expose' (?)
Furthermore, I'd have called the cops and tried to prosecute her, but I'm a born trouble maker.
This is an excellent idea. No doubt you'll have more opportunities like this one in the future. How's business otherwise?
It's legally impossible to steal what is being given away for free.
I hope these tenured IDIOT professors on campuses all over America have mental health coverage, they're gonna need it, their "brainwashing the masses" Marxist experiment is failing, a conservative backlash is growing, what are the left-over hippie, America haters going to do now? GO NUTS!! LOL LOL LOL LOL !!!!
So I looked up the Editor of The Yale Free Press and sent him my comments. I expect a response this time. We'll see.
The creation of these alternative newspapers on college campuses is right in line with the early history of newspapers in the United States, both at the time the Constitution was written and in the 20 years prior to that. (I've read most of the surviving issues of those newspapers on microfilm at the Library of Congress.) Those early newspapers were unabashedly partisan.
My personal favorite quote from all of them comes from the Aurora Advertiser in New York. It wrote, "If ever a man debauched a nation, George Washington debauched the United States." I don't agree with the sentiment expressed, but I admire the boldness of the editorial judgment.
Congressman Billybob
I had the luxury of taking a class at our nearby university and hearing many professors say these things rught after 911. To my amazement there were alot fo students who saw right through the hatred and rebuked these hate America leftists.
At any rate, I can only imagine the vitriol directed at you and your paper. The atmosphere at the university is quite frankly, an oppressive and poisonous place, where leftist orthodoxy is enforced by academic jackboots. (I was purged out of a class once for writing a paper about Maggie Thatcher, no kidding). The brainwashing is so complete that many actually consider Micheal Moore's lunacy as critical thinking, but then again Leni Reifenstahl was once popular. At any rate, keep up the good fight, but the only thing I can assure you is that you won't get a fair shake from the campus crypto-fascists.
It hasn't been easy what with the diversity dean working against the paper but to date it prevails.
Is this case law? My instinct is that taking the entire newsdrop supply is theft. But I don't actually know.
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