Posted on 07/10/2003 2:57:39 AM PDT by kattracks
(CNSNews.com) - Initially labeled a "suspicious white male" by police investigating a dispute at the multicultural center on the campus of California Polytechnic State University, student Steve Hinkel continues to defy university officials who want him to apologize for posting a flyer advertising a conservative speaker.
The original dispute occurred Nov. 12, 2002, when Hinkle, a member of the College Republicans, entered the Cal Poly Multicultural Center to post a flyer promoting an upcoming speech by Mason Weaver, a conservative and African American author of the book It's OK to Leave the Plantation The book analyzes the dangers of African Americans becoming too dependent on government programs.
Several students confronted Hinkle and told him he needed approval from the coordinator of the multicultural center before he could post anything. While Hinkle left to investigate the claims, one of the students called the campus police department.
According to the police report eventually filed in the case, "On 11-12-02...we were dispatched to the multicultural center to investigate a report of a suspicious white male passing out literature of an offensive racial nature."
On Jan. 29 of this year, Cal Poly charged Hinkle with disrupting a student meeting - a Bible reading - in the multicultural center's lounge area.
In February, university officials held a hearing to determine Hinkle's culpability, a transcript of which was compiled by Hinkle's faculty adviser. During the hearing, Cornel Morton, vice president of student affairs, attempted to explain to Hinkle the mindset of his accusers.
"You are a young white member of CPCR (Cal Poly College Republicans). To students of color, this may be a collision of experience," Morton said. "The chemistry has racial implications, and you are naive not to acknowledge those."
A copy of the transcript from the hearing was provided to CNSNews.com by the Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a free speech group representing Hinkle in the dispute.
On March 12, university Vice Provost W. David Conn found Hinkle guilty and ordered him to write letters of apology to the offended students, informing Hinkle that if he failed to write the letters, he would face much stiffer penalties.
But Hinkle refuses to apologize.
"What is so shocking about this case is that Cal Poly decided not to punish the student censors, but rather, to punish the student who simply attempted to post a flyer that included only factually accurate information," said Greg Lukianoff, director of legal and public advocacy for FIRE.
Lukianoff said Hinkle's accusers were responsible for the disruption in the student lounge, not the other way around. He added that the student Bible-reading group had no formal recognition from the university and therefore could not have been conducting a campus-related function.
The irony, according to Lukianoff, was that "Hinkle was actually posting flyers for an event that was sponsored by a recognized student group and by the student government, and it is he who has the far better claim to campus function status."
Hinkle not only isn't planning to apologize, Lukianoff wants Cal Poly to apologize to Hinkle and the entire student body. The university must also "overturn its rulings against Steve Hinkle, expunge any derogatory information from his record and take serious corrective action to make sure that no students believe that they can report a student to the university police simply because they dislike that student's expression."
Carlos Cordova, Cal Poly's legal counsel, defended the university's handling of the matter.
"Mr. Hinkle was charged with engaging in conduct which disrupted a student meeting, a content-neutral rule applicable to all students. He was not charged because of his political affiliation or because some members of our campus community considered the flyers he attempted to post to be offensive."
Any decision to punish Hinkle will be made by the university's director of student judicial affairs, who was unavailable for comment. However, Morton emphasized that an expulsion or suspension was not being considered. Morton would not speculate on how the university might respond to Hinkle's refusal to apologize.
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Of course legally you are correct -- but that will not protect America from deteriorating into a third-world hellhole within the next few decades.
You have failed to establish a relationship between the proposition that US citizens of African ancestry should be sent to somewhere they've never been before to resettle permanently, the contention that this country is becoming third-world and a stupid statement made by the vice president of student affairs at CalPoly.
You know, not every white in America has been pacified by the PC establishment to the point that Kumbaya bullcrap is accepted blindly.
What are you talking about?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't there whites born in South Africa and Zimbabwe that have been killed, raped, and have had their property seized by their "black countrymen" (and with the tacit approval of the ruling black majority governments)?
What does that have to do with anything involving the incident that is the topic of this thread?
Funny, I don't hear Kofi Anan and other other internationalist third-worlders calling for reparations for white folk that have been victimized by black majorities.
What does that have to do with anything involving the CalPoly incident?
But for the sake of consistency I will state unequivocally that whites do not belong in sub-Saharan Africa just as blacks do not belong in the US.
No one of any particular pigmentation 'belongs' anywhere. It seems you are basing your opinions on gross and unwarranted assumptions.
Is it racist to contend, as I do, that different races and nations are best segregated for the sake of peace and harmony?
No, not particularly. Absurd? Yes.
I never stated that blacks were inferior to whites, I merely implied that, by and large, they will never get along with whites -- need I cite the statistics of violent black-on-white crime in America to prove my point?
You're now referring to social and criminal demographics, not racial characteristics. Those statistics would add no validity to your claims.
Isn't the latest Affirmative Action argument that minorities are necessary on university campi because of the need to expose the students to a diversity of life experience? Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
But I suppose calling the students "of color" on their blatant racial bigotry would never occur to this PC aminhackstrator.
So says Gritty. And it's the truth! Our universities have been taken over by Communists. One more generation and we fall. The unexpected wrinkle is that thing we still have called "Free Speech."
Not racist. Maybe stupid. Who should be on the first boat to Africa? Clarence Thomas? Condoleezza Rice? Ward Connerly? Walter Williams? Tiger Woods (of course, as a Cablinasian(sp?), he may be eligible for tickets elsewhere). Maybe every black sailor in the US Navy -- they can operate the ships that take the black Marines, Coast Guardsmen, Soldiers, and Airmen to Africa. They can be funded by black businessmen and entertainers.
I suspect you don't really want to indiscriminately eliminate every "black" (and I suppose we're using the one-drop rule to keep things simple) from American society. Rather, you want certain sectors of black America removed. The poor. The liberals. The radicals. The antisocial. That doesn't make you racist -- it just makes you a crazy social engineer, almost up there with history's great eugenecists, ethnic cleansers, and political purifiers.
I never stated that blacks were inferior to whites, I merely implied that, by and large, they will never get along with whites -- need I cite the statistics of violent black-on-white crime in America to prove my point?
Given the time horizon of your prediction and the solution you have implied would rectify this problem, my standards of proof are much, much higher than a few statistics. Google nature vs. nurture and causation vs. correlation, do some reading, and reconsider your notion that several genes determining pigment have more to do with where on the globe a person should live than the sum total of their life experiences.
Yes, but with significant qualification - only emasculated, self-loathing leftists who are willing to play whipping boy and parade themselves as the proximate cause for all the world's ills.
Exactly. If he had been passing out "Free Mumia!" rally literature, he would have been tolerated.
But the mere presence of a white conservative is enough to cause these liberal plantation minority students to go berserk, and of course their behavior is blamed on the white.
My recommendation. Emory University in Michigan.
If he was posting a flyer on bagels, or a car for sale he would have been tolerated.
How on earth do you defend against the nebulous, non-charge of "bad chemistry"?
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