Outrage at Duke

Chuck Muth's "News and Views" newsletter | 01/17/2003 | Chuck Muth

[Right Wing Professor]

...Vassar...

[billhilly]

http://www.speakersandartists.org/People/LauraWhitehorn.html

[dennisw]

I would be very surprised if she did not get paid. The Bl. Studies Dept has money for this purpose. Who else do you think they're going to squander money on? What kind of people do you think they're going to squander money on?

[JohnnyZ]

I searched for "Laura Whitehorn" and Cornell and Hey Presto! it turns out she has, indeed, visited the University of the City of Evil: link

[dennisw]

She gets paid for speaking:

http://www.speakersandartists.org/People/LauraWhitehorn.html

[MinuteGal]

DUKE UNIVERSITY FIGHT SONG

Duke, we thy anthems raise
For all the praises untold
We'll sing for the Blue and White
Whose colors we unfold
Firm stands her line of blue
For they are loyal through and through
Fighting with spirit true
All for the love of old D.U.
Fight, we'll fight
With all our strength and might - Hey!
Win we can
So here we lend a hand
Hey! Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah
D-U-K-E, Rah!

Hey, Duke! Too bad you don't want to fight for the Red, White and Blue anymore.

Leni

[dennisw]

Duke isn't alone either.

The AA depratment at Brown had her speaking last April

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/African_American_Studies/confagenda.html

It's kind of obvious that this misfit supports herself in part by speaking at universities and at their Black Studies programs. It's a sweetheart deal. She has friends.

[Right Wing Professor]

Good thing there's no way I was going to take your bet at even odds!

[billhilly]

At issue here is freedom of speech. Further, it is about supression, and tolerance.

Maybe we can begin a catalogue of examples, from both sides.

May I start?

What is appropriate for conservatives to say? What is allowable?

What is appropriate for liberals to say? What is allowable?

[Mike Darancette]

Convicted of the 1983 U.S. Capitol bombing and "conspiring to influence, change and protest policies and practices of the U.S. government,"...

I'll bet "conspiring to influence" was not in the indictment.

[Interesting Times]

What is appropriate for conservatives to say?

Well, I suppose we might suggest that American colleges shouldn't offer paying gigs to convicted terror bombers.

[Interesting Times]

Amazing.

The Congressional Black Caucus solicited political advice from someone who was convicted of bombing the Capitol.

I wonder if Drudge would have any interest in that.

[RightOnline]

Just sent the following:

Mr. Keohane -

Call me old-fashioned, Mr. Keohane..........call me a throwback; a dinosaur.

Still, when I see that a vaunted (and local) university of (usually) impeccable academic repute decides to welcome a speaker who is billed, on your own University Web site, thusly:



"Laura Whitehorn is a revolutionary anti-imperialist who spent over 14 years in federal prison as a political prisoner. An out lesbian, she initiated and worked in HIV peer education and support projects in each of the three federal prisons in which she did time. Since her release, she's worked with POZ Magazine, a national monthly for the communities affected by HIV. She is now writing about HCV/HIV co-infection in the prisons. She has also researched the many cases in the U.S. of HIV positive people locked up for supposed 'crimes of transmission.' She is also involved in work toward the release of all the remaining political prisoners in U.S. prisons, and she lives in Manhattan with her lover, the writer Susie Day."


....then I just figure that here's another drooling liberal university nimrod, under your university "radar", inviting a gay, HIV-infected, ultra-radical feminist Communist to speak to young, malleable minds as if it's perfectly normal. I have come to expect as much from most in academia in this day and age. Yet, just in case you didn't know,

"Planting a bomb in the U.S. Capitol Building in 1983 was the culmination of a lifetime of radical protest for Laura Whitehorn, and 14 years in federal penitentiary have only solidified her stance as a committed American revolutionary. . . . More than simply a life and times story, OUT: The Making of a Revolutionary is a powerful indictment against the incarceration system, where still today over 100 political prisoners remain imprisoned for speaking out against the U.S. Government."

.....it seems that our gay, ultra-radical feminist Communist is actually a gay, HIV-infected, ultra-radical feminist, Communist, terrorist bomber. I'm sure you just couldn't be more proud that your fine institution of higher learning that happens to charge near $40K per year can tell all of your students' parents that they're paying such confiscatory rates for their children to have their minds opened and their views properly shaped by a terrorist.

Hope you have a crew ready to clean up the slime after this person's appearance.................and shame on you for ever, EVER allowing such garbage to even walk onto your campus.

I'd take this to the News & Observer, Mr. Keohane, but they'd merely applaud your "open-mindedness".



Sign me, "Disgusted and Glad That My College-Aged Children Attend NC State",



[RightOnline's real name]

Raleigh, NC

[dogbrain]

BUMP/indexed for later cardio-hydro test....

[billhilly]

Suggest is a very powerful word. I'll try to get it on my tombstone.

[billhilly]

Heavy applause.

[Interesting Times]

It's Mrs, Miss or (probably) Ms Keohane... see post 8 and others.

[Constitution Day]

or whether they planned to wait until UNC one-upped Duke with someone REALLY good, like John Walker Lindh.

LMAO!! That's great.

[Constitution Day]

Bump

[alrea]

we long ago stopped alumni donations to the imperialist education federation here is north carolina