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Fans of No. 5 Gonzaga have been asked to stop yelling "Brokeback Mountain" at opposing players. The reference to the recent movie about homosexual cowboys was chanted by some fans during Monday's game against Saint Mary's, and is apparently intended to suggest an opposing player is gay. The chants were the subject of several classroom discussions over the past week, and the faculty advisers for the Kennel Club booster group urged students this week to avoid "inappropriate chants" during the Bulldogs' Saturday game against Stanford, which was nationally televised on ESPN. "We implore the students of the Kennel Club to...

SPOKANE -- Gonzaga University, which has rejected recent attempts to bring a Planned Parenthood speaker and "The Vagina Monologues" to the school, now is under fire for the on-campus appearance of a conservative who contends homosexuality is a matter of choice. The College Republicans brought in Dr. John Diggs for a lecture titled "The Medical Effects of Homo-Sex." Some students criticized the lecture in the student newspaper, the Bulletin, as anti-gay and promoting stereotypes. Diggs' appearance Tuesday was intended to foster open debate and inquiry, said Daniel Brutocao, president of the Gonzaga chapter of College Republicans. The speaker focused on...

Catholic Schools Punish Students for Opposing Homosexuality By Randy Hall CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor November 02, 2005 (CNSNews.com) - Two Catholic universities have tried to censor students during the past week for defending the church's teachings against homosexuality, actions the head of one Roman Catholic organization called "ridiculous." One incident took place in Pittsburgh, where a Duquesne University student used an independent website to voice his opposition to a proposed "gay-straight alliance" on campus and described homosexual sex as "subhuman actions." According to the school's website, several students complained to Duquesne's Office of Judicial Affairs, which held a hearing and concluded...

HERO: (Helping Educate Regarding Orientation: A Gay/Straight Alliance) As an integral part of the Gonzaga University, HERO members are motivated by the humanistic, Catholic, and Jesuit traditions to which this university belongs. They seek to encourage the development of self-knowledge, self-acceptance, a restless curiosity, a desire for truth, a mature concern for others, and a thirst for justice within the context of faith development and human transformation. In October, HERO hosts an annual "Coming Out Day" BBQ. Advisor: Fr. Bob Egan Contact #: (509) 323-6018

Matt Krimm looked forward to the arguments with Erik Kristensen. Mr. Krimm graduated from DeMatha Catholic High School, and his friend graduated from Gonzaga. The schools share a long football rivalry, one with a history of tales. There was, for example, the time Gonzaga supporters placed a deer carcass on the front steps of DeMatha, home of the Stags. The schools take the rivalry seriously, and it is not something that simply goes away after graduation. That is one of the beauties of high school sports -- a connection of youth that never fades, something that, 30 years later, Gonzaga...

The elevation of Pope Benedict XVI to the Papal Suite at the Vatican might give some of America’s Catholic colleges and universities the chance to be more than Catholic in Name Only (CINO). “Catholic theology is not individual reflection but thinking with the faith of the Church,” then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in a 1999 U. S. visit. “If you will do other things and have other ideas of what God could be or could not be, there is the freedom of the person to do it, clearly.” “But one should not say this is Catholic theology.” When Nigerian Cardinal Francis...

Last week, I gave a speech at Gonzaga University - a university I have written about on three separate occasions. After spending two days at this "Catholic" university, I have come to the conclusion that it is far worse than my previous articles had suggested. I use the term "worse," primarily to describe Gonzaga's betrayal of Catholic principles - all in the name of tolerance and diversity. I could try to persuade my readers that my conclusion is correct by simply talking about the gay pride ribbons tied around lampposts and stair rails all around the Gonzaga campus. I could...

        Interim Plus Curriculum Supplement on Same Sex MarriageOttawa March for Life 2005 - May 11-13Canadian Defence of Marriage Page March CLC National NewsJan Interim Newspaper     PoliticsInternationalWhat Can I Do? Educational InformationNews PartnersCulture Features Crisis Pregnancy Support Free Daily E-News Subscribe Friends New on LifeSite Donate About Us Contact Site Map Thursday February 24, 2005 Printer friendly version Email to a friend   Jesuit Gonzaga University Favours Gay and Pro-Abortion Campus Clubs, Persecutes Christians SPOKANE, February 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Gonzaga University, the Catholic college in Spokane, Washington, owned and run by the Jesuit...

Dear President Spitzer (spitzer@gonzaga.edu): Recently, I received a letter from two third-year law students at Gonzaga University (GU) School of Law. The students described your law school as one that is “secular” and which fraudulently holds itself out to be Catholic. They also stated they had experienced first-hand the school’s trampling of the rights of Christian students. Specifically, they accused GU of violating the rights of their first Christian pro-life group. As a preliminary matter, I understand that your “Catholic” law school has the words of Matthew 22:35-38 emblazoned on one of its walls: “One of them, an expert in...

             Lives of the Saints   St. Aloysius Gonzaga(1568-1591) BY THE REV. F. GOLDIE, S.J.     In a time of terrible wars, when the passions excited by the false Reformation were still at red heat, but while the effects of the true Reform were making themselves felt throughout Europe; when St. Pius V. was in the Chair of Peter, and Elizabeth was reigning in England, St. Aloysius was born in his ancestral castle at Castiglione in Lombardy, on March 9th, 1568. Don Ferrante, his father, was not only Marquis by title, but also the sovereign of his little...

Iraq War Vet Lt. Col. Rutter to Speak April 5 home/news & events Dateline: 3/22/2004 GONZAGA UNIVERSITY NEWS RELEASE Dale Goodwin, Director Peter Tormey, Associate Director Iraq War Vet Lt. Col. Rutter to Speak 'The Liberation of Iraq – A Soldier's Story' April 5 Lt. Col. Scott Rutter, a commander in the Iraq War, will speak on "The Liberation of Iraq – A Soldier's Story" at 7:30 p.m., Monday, April 5 in Cataldo Hall at Gonzaga University. The event, sponsored by GU College Republicans and the Young Americas Foundation, is free and open to the public. Lt. Col. Rutter in...

Scholars meet to lay ground for hate studies programs A groundbreaking conference to establish the academic field of "hate studies" runs today through Saturday at Gonzaga University. Organized by the Gonzaga Institute for Action Against Hate, the conference brings Morris Dees, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and other scholars to Spokane. Together, they will examine what the hate studies field could look like in an effort to diminish hate in this country. The conference also will focus on developing curricula for colleges and universities that adopt hate studies programs. Defining hate is a huge undertaking, experts say, because...

Gonzaga University's president, Father Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., has permitted the School of Law's Student Bar Association (SBA) to refuse to recognize a Christian student organization. According to the SBA, the Gonzaga Pro-Life Law Caucus's requirement that its leadership be Christian is "discriminatory." "We live in a strange age, indeed, when a Catholic, Jesuit university would deny a Christian pro-life group recognition because its religious nature is considered 'discriminatory,'" said Greg Lukianoff, director of legal and public advocacy for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). "It is sad enough when secular institutions do not recognize the value of...

If there were any place that would embrace her Christian, anti-abortion student club without hesitation, Ashley Horne figured it would be Gonzaga University, a 116-year-old Jesuit school in Spokane and one of the Northwest's leading Catholic institutions. But to her surprise, Gonzaga's Student Bar Association (SBA) has refused to recognize her Pro-Life Law Caucus as a university-sponsored group, ruling that the club would discriminate because only Christians can hold leadership positions in the organization. "We live in a strange age, indeed, when a Catholic, Jesuit university would deny a Christian pro-life group recognition because its religious nature is considered discriminatory,"...

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLSUniversity revokes 'hate speech' punishmentCollege Republicans disciplined for fliers slamming 'the Left' Posted: November 26, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The president of Gonzaga University has rescinded punishment of the school's College Republicans club, which was taken to task for posting fliers with the book title "Why the Left Hates America." According to a statement from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, university President Robert J. Spitzer made the reversal after receiving a letter from the organization. "It is a dark day when universities in a free society start banning everyday words. In this context, it is especially...

Gonzaga University Declares the Word “Hate” as Discriminatory Administrators Censor Student Flyer HERNDON, VA – Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA) administration officials censored flyers advertising a Young America’s Foundation organized lecture because the word “hate” was used on the flyer. The flyer in question featured the topic of guest speaker Dan Flynn’s speech, “Why the Left Hates America,” which is also the title of his book. The administration first approved the flyer then rescinded the approval after some professors and students complained of the use of the word “hate.” In a letter obtained by Young America’s Foundation, Gonzaga’s Office of Student...

June 29, 2003 LIZ PHAIR Chicken Little's Tale To the Editor: Re "Liz Phair's Exile in Avril-ville" by Meghan O'Rourke [June 22]: Once upon a time there was a writer named Chicken Little. Chicken Little worked very hard and took her job very seriously. Often, she even wrote. One day, just as Chicken Little was about to have an idea, she heard something falling on her roof. "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" she shrieked, spilling green tea and vodka all over her work station. This commotion awoke her three readers, who lived with her in her hut,...