DePaul is investigating the student organizer of an affirmative action protest for “discriminatory harassment”, reports FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education). Conservative students had offered cake and cookies for $1 for white and Asian males, 75 cents for white and Asian females, down to 25 cents for black, Hispanic and Native American females. A heated discussion ensued, until the administration shut down the protest.
The DePaulia reports on the reaction by a black student leader who’s worthy of his first name.
Voltaire Davis, a junior sociology student and president of the Black Student Union, said, “Silencing [DePaul Conservative Alliance] can be negative. When you silence someone you close off resolution.” Davis recently invited (DCA leader Michael) O’Shea to take part in his weekly radio show on WRDP, and an interview with the paper run by members of the Black Student Union, Black Voices.
On the other hand, a women’s studies students seems oblivious to the idea that a university should tolerate dissent and encourage discussion of a range of ideas.
Megan Wiskiewicz, a junior history student, is currently working on an e-mail along with other members in her class, Women’s and Gender’s Studies 200: Women in Transitional Context, that will call for a few changes within the DCA organization. “We are expressing concern and seriously requesting that the organization put out a public written apology, be placed on probation and agree to take part in a forum on affirmative action,” said Wiskiewicz.
FIRE intervened last year when DePaul dismissed a professor for arguing with pro-Palestinian students and again when it censored “students’ peaceful protest of controversial professor Ward Churchill.”
Looks to me like the black student and the conservative student are working it out together without the university getting involved. However, the women’s study group is as usual getting it all messed up. I am starting to see the reason Henry II asked will no one rid me of this priest. The women’s study group would screw up a wet dream!!
Strikes me that the whole concept of affirmative action is being messed up by all these little, in almost any sense of little, groups claiming to be minorities and wanting special treatment. They seem to want to say that their wants and desires are all that matter so kowtow to them and screw the rest of the world. I don’t know about anyone else but I am sick and tired of kowtowing. I think this as well as the Larry Summers situation at Harvard and other claims should all be solved by just telling them to shut it!!