Usually, the University of Colorado at Boulder takes the top spot in our office as the state’s most entertaining liberal college campus. But this week, CU is getting some stiff competition from its neighbors to the South.
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As a Face The State investigation revealed Tuesday, the University of Colorado’s Women’s Resource Center receives more than $260k in taxpayer-and-student fee funds to perpetuate an endless series of radical diversity workshops. The forums perpetuate a number of debatable concepts, including the notion that all whites cannot escape their racism. Attendees received a handout listing diversity-related terms and their appropriate usage.
But now CU has fierce competition coming out of Colorado College in Colorado Springs. As the Rocky Mountain News’ Vincent Carroll reports, the college has found two male students guilty of the school’s anti-violence code. Their sin - distributing a leaflet that mocked an anti-male monthly publication coming out of the school’s Feminist and Gender Studies program — as just too much for campus radicals to bear.
While Colorado College is private and should be able to set its own standard for the free speech of students, we have to wonder why its leaders would ever want to silence non-violent political speech—especially when it’s so incredibly hilarious. To learn more about the case, visit the Foundation For Individual Rights’ Web site.
Great story
On April 8th, 2008 BlindingConditions says:
I'm glad FTS picked this up, it's worth reading around on the referenced sites to see the student's extremely well written rebuttal, as well as other reasoned defenses of free speech.
But Vince really noticed the story, rather than reported it (although he seems to have a few fresh quotes from Robinson, one of the students involved). This was on the front page of the Gazette and on Colorado Springs TV a week ago. Let's give credit where it's due.