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April 08, 2005

Freedom of Speech at UNH

Lest anyone think that Ward Churchill is the only psychopath spewing moonbattery on a college campus, Wendy McElroy brings us up to date on recent goings on at the University of New Hampshire.

David Huffman, a journalist for the privately funded conservative student paper Common Sense, attempted to attend an on-campus public event — underwritten by taxpayers — called the "Patriarchy Slam." Here he saw members of the Feminist Action League who wore scissors around their necks as they recited poems about castration.

Someone going by the name of Mary Man-Hating-Is-Fun had this announcement to make to the cheerful gathering:

Ever since I learned to embrace my feminist nature, I found great joy in threatening men's lives.

Unfortunately Huffman was thrown out before he could observe the entire event, on the highly ironic grounds that as a man, he would be "intimidating." They even took his program away in an attempt to prevent him from spreading the word to taxpayers about the sort of antisocial depravity we are funding on college campuses.

Other men were allowed to stay, because they had "allegiance to the FAL." Maybe the scissors had already been used on them. Shannon O'Neil, a female reporter for The New Hampshire, was also allowed to stay, so Huffman's being a journalist wasn't the problem. FAL militant Nicole Whalen later admitted that Huffman was tossed out of this public event because they knew he was a conservative.

When asked if a fraternity event that called for the mutilation of female genitalia would be tolerated, this was the response of Anne Lawing, UNH's Vice President of Student Affairs:

We have so much data that shows that fraternities have been violent with women in the past and the instances of women being violent to men happen so infrequently.

John Wayne Bobbitt could not be reached for comment.

She also referred to FAL's First Amendment rights.

By way of contrast, last fall at the same school, Timothy Garneau was kicked out of the dorms and ended up sleeping in a friend's car after he got tired of the long waits for elevators caused by people using them to go up a single floor and tacked up a joke flier that read:

9 out of 10 freshman girls gain 10-15 pounds. But there is something you can do about it. If u live below the 6th floor takes the stairs. Not only will u feel better about yourself but you will also be saving us time and wont be sore on the eyes.

The charges? Dishonesty, furnishing false information to a University official, violation of affirmative action, harassment and conduct which is disorderly and lewd. He was convicted on all counts.

FAL gets so much freedom of speech, they're even free to throw students off university property on suspicion of disagreeing with them; meanwhile, Timothy Garneau can't even make a joke. The contrast underscores the fact that there is no freedom of speech on college campuses. Moonbattery is mandatory; everything else is forbidden.

According to McElroy, the problem is that free speech and tax funding are incompatible. The solution: privatization. As she puts it:

Just as Huffman's conservative paper is privately funded so, too, should scissor-wielding feminists be forced to finance their own pro-castration agenda.

Sounds fair enough.

Posted by Van Helsing at April 8, 2005 06:31 AM

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Posted by: ways at May 25, 2005 07:13 PM