Here are some editorials from the Daily Cal. They finally got around to doing a story about this today, even though I've been reading about it on Indymedia and national sources since Tuesday. http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=8512 Here is one endorsing Ward Connerly's initiative a couple days ago http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=8454 The editor, S. Sexton, is really proud of his story of how a male human sexuality extracurricular class (not a real class) had some students who outside of class went to a porno theater etc. and he was invited on Fox News with Ward Connerly. Earlier on the same episode of fox news, they had Michael Moore sputtering, uncharacteristically at a loss for words as O'Reilly put him on the defensive with "so, are you some sort of communist?" and Moore could only think to say "I think that only you should pay 70% of your income in taxes"
They're going to suspend the 41 students for a year, and ban tabling by the Student for Justice in Palestine. The second, if you think about it briefly, will provide a big organizing point. Just visualize them sending the police to take away their folding table. Most of the tables on Sproul aren't political, but are cultural or premedical societies etc. I seriously wish this Office of Student Conduct would consider actually cracking down in other more consequential areas, given taht they're doing this. Students who are caught cheating in the pre-medical intro to biology class that I TA, that is pretty tough - only gives out 8% As, never have charges stick if they contest them. I know of someone who was a dishwasher at a fraternity, and when they didn't pay him the wages promised to the tune of thousands of dollars, plus they do a lot of drugs even though they're supposed to be dry and on probation, - and the office of Student Conduct pushed him out the door and didn't do a thing.
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