At UVA an honor code violation only has one penalty (automatic expulsion) and your fate is decided by other students with no adult supervision. I fear that the new "Hate Speach" honor code would be applied to Conservatives and Christians who might offer any criticisim of the homosexual lifestyle. And those evil college GOP groups could be tossed out of school for conducting those insensitive affirmative action bake sales.
Although, I'm sure the radical leftist campus groups could continue to immitate Michael Moore without fear of reprisal.
If these incidents weren't fabrications
Sorry FRiend, but I don't think you need to go any further than that. These crimes are fake so often that I automatically conclude they are until absolutely proven otherwise. Without going back and looking, I don't recall being wrong in the last three years or so.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Does this mean you won't be able to buy rap music in the Student Store?
"You stupid, hypocritical Christians! You should all be banned from this University! We don't want your kind here!! I cannot believe that you invite people to attend sermons where the Bible will be quoted! I demand that the University shut you down!"
And the Univesity will consider it, and probably do it. But no one will suggest that the student with the Che shirt may have violated the honor code...
this is fraud - very popular at college campuses first week of school... happens every fall at my campus for the past 11 years - next day president address - following day concessions and extra fund $ made available for "certain" clubs, 1 week later completely forgotten
Hate speech is hate speech, but an HONOR VIOLATION???
If I say "DEMS SUCK", that's not dishonest, although Dems may not like for me to say it.
Indeed, what makes me very concerned is the prospect that these racial epithets were graffitied by the very people crying foul. A few years back, a girl running for UVA Student Council President named Daisy Lundy claimed she had been assaulted in a parking lot by someone demanding she drop out of the race. This resulted in her opponent dropping out and she becoming the new studco pres. There remains little doubt that the incident never occured and that the minor scratches for which she received treatment were self-inflicted. And she demonstrated grounds for suspicion when, after winning the election, accused a number of conservative/libertarian organizations of being racist. She was even known on at least one occasion to attend meetings of these organizations with the purpose of harassing them.
What makes alll of this most worrisome is the fact that John Casteen (president of UVA) is a known PC/diversity hawk. UVA has never met a liberal policy/program they didn't like since he was brought aboard.
Any alums out there who know any more? I was there in the 80's.
Yeah, I remember. T.J. wrote "Freedom of speech will not be abridged, except for 'hate speech.'"
I didn't know Cindy Sheehan went up to Virginia.
Another “high tech grade school” masquerading as a University trying to impose its will on others.
Social engineering (heavily practiced in most socialist systems) is more important than the product it produces or the competition it faces. Whether they know it or not, American Universities are on the verge of a Darwin Kodak moment.
I wouldn't be surprised if this sort of thing came from Hillary's favorite book, Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals".
Remember, the Left thinks the truth is only an obstacle to be overcome to achieve "social justice".