As we repeat, "We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
Last July, a number of UWEC Resident Assistants (RAs) received a letter from the campus administration. One of them, Lance Steiger, realized that the letter's instruction to leave off holding Bible Studies — studies that were voluntarily attended, and organized on the RAs' own time — was discriminatory, and decided to do something about it. He contacted FIRE, a group dedicated to the advancement of authentic academic freedom, something in short supply on today's "pluralistic" college campuses.
The struggle between Steiger and the administration took nine months and a lawsuit it resolve. UWEC's response to FIRE's letter last Fall, spelling out what FIRE considered the Constitutional violations in the administration's position, was met with a strengthening of the administration's anti-Bible study policy. Additionally, the administration sought to hide behind the policy decisions of the UW System as a whole, stating its powerlessness to do anything about the situation unless the whole System made a policy decision first. Sounds familiar, doesn't it — like Harry Blackmun's assertion in Roe that the Court had no competence for deciding when life begins; like Jeb Bush's pathetic hand-wringing in the face of the starvation/dehydration of Terri Schindler-Schiavo. The right to trample upon other people's rights always seems to be coupled with the disavowal of any means of countering this trend.
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So, as I personally happen to know very well, the present expression of the culture wars on campus has been brewing for a long time. One is reminded of the words of the White Rose resistance group in Germany, comprised of a group of students in Munich who lost their lives in speaking out against the National Socialist philosophy and regime. The Scholls and their confreres give us a glimpse of the state of education in a holocaust society in their last leaflet, where they write:...
Have you heard what happened at UW-Eau Claire?
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The reports we've received concerning Mrs. Vo's case are troubling and we will be closely watching the actions of St. David's North Austin Medical Center. Hopefully, the hospital will continue to work with the family to meet the medical needs of Mrs. Vo rather than using futile care laws to purposefully end her life.
Here's a little background on Mrs. Vo:
Yolang T. Vo was born in Vietnam. She was a young mother when Saigon fell. Her husband was an officer in the South Vietnamese Navy. After the Communists took over, they put her husband in a re-education camp. Yolang worked her fingers to the bone to earn enough money to bribe guards so that her husband could escape the camp. After his escape, the couple fled from Vietnam on a rickety boat with other "boat people" in 1979. They came to America, where Yolang continued to work hard so that she could bring her young daughter out of Vietnam to America. She achieved that in 1981. She also helped her sisters and the rest of her family escape the Communists to come to America. Yolang's family reveres her.
Previously:
Yenlang Vo's Struggle for Life
Andrea Clark Is Not the Only One
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Another Desperate Case in Texas: Yenlang Vo
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Do you know (or see) any way to reach this writer? I'm going to be in her neighborhood shortly and would be pleased to pay my respects.