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Students for Barack Obama held an "Unwelcome Wagon" demonstration when vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin rolled onto Shippensburg University's campus Tuesday. A handful of students and alumni lifted signs and cheered for Barack Obama while thousands of John McCain supporters lined up across the street for hours, waiting to see Palin speak in Heiges Field House. (snip)The pro-Obama gathering was small when it began around noon but had grown into a small mob by the end of the rally, peaking at around 50 naysayers at 4:30 p.m. to include non-students as well.

Apparently, it’s getting easier to find pedophiles in the faculty lounges of colleges and universities than it is in Catholic churches. “Why would any self-respecting boy want to attend one of America’s increasingly feminized universities?,” economist George Gilder asked in a column. “Most of these institutions have flounced through the last forty years fashioning a fluffy pink playpen of feminist studies and agitprop ‘herstory,’ taught amid a green goo of eco-motherism and anti-industrial phobia.” “They routinely showcase such trendy trumperies as The Vagina Monologues, while sacrificing thousands of men’s athletic teams at the altar of Title IX.” There may be...

However, when campus speech codes go beyond the Hillsdale model, they reduce higher education to nothing more than a robotic assembly line cranking out prefabricated ideas in a factory of left-wing political correctness. Today, the speech codes on most of America's campuses are nothing more than carefully-designed thought-control mechanisms, created by America's "progressive" social engineers, for turning today's college students into mindless, soulless, left-thinking automatons.......

It is extremely challenging for conservative college students to pop the bubble of political correctness that surrounds them, and when they do speak, you seldom hear about it. But I have good news for you. More and more students are refusing to take assaults on family values sitting down. For example, on April 15, a young group of College Republicans at Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, organized a day of support for traditional marriage. Looking for reinforcements, the College Republicans invited members of TFP Student Action to join in their efforts. Shippensburg College Republicans had a table inside the CUB Great Hall...

<p>A Pennsylvania college has revised a portion of its student-speech policy that critics said violated free speech and was at the center of a federal lawsuit filed by current and former students.</p> <p>The Shippensburg University's Council of Trustees changed some wording in its Student Code of Conduct two weeks ago after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of some provisions.</p>

<p>"I didn't really rape that girl," says a young college student.</p> <p>"Did she say 'stop' or 'no'?" asks the talk show host.</p> <p>"Well, she shook her head and didn't say anything after that," responds the young man.</p> <p>The conversation was part of a skit called "Sex Signals" performed recently for students at Shippensburg University. The intent: To teach women how to say "no" to men, and men when they must stop.</p>

SHIPPENSBURG, PA -- The United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued a preliminary injunction on Thursday, September 4, 2003, ordering Shippensburg University President Anthony F. Ceddia not to enforce provisions of what the court termed Shippensburg's "speech code." The code is being challenged in a lawsuit brought by attorneys in the Legal Network of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). The court also denied the university's motion to dismiss the case, allowing it to proceed to trial. "This is a great victory and a vital step in the struggle against the scandal of unconstitutional...

<p>A federal judge told a Pennsylvania college Thursday it couldn't enforce a school code that could violate its students' First Amendment rights.</p> <p>Judge John E. Jones II temporarily barred officials at Shippensburg University from implementing some provisions from the school's Student Code of Conduct, which urges students to take views that don't antagonize others and "mirror the official views of the administration." Judge Jones said parts of the code could "likely" be found unconstitutional in a future ruling.</p>

The FIRE This TimeBy Richard L. CravattsFrontPageMagazine.com | May 8, 2003 In two recent controversies simmering on American campuses, university administrators seem to be giving credence to an observation by Abigail Thernstrom, who categorized left-leaning, politically correct institutions of higher education as "an island of repression in a sea of freedom." Instead of serving as marketplaces of ideas, universities continue to implement policies that control speech and attitudes that do not conform to the prevailing liberal view of politics, race, or culture. Despite violating the very principals of free and open thought they so vigorously expose, campus administrators, in the...