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Posted at 10:11am on Jan. 29, 2008 URGENT ACTION ALERT: CMU to hold expulsion hearing on conservative student
By RightMichigan.com
Bumped up top and promoted by Erick. This expulsion hearing happens tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. You can contact Professor Peter Koper at peter.t.koper@cmich.edu or (989) 774-3128 and ask him to support free speech by dropping the charges. -- Erick
Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.
It wouldn't be a new semester if Central Michigan University weren't attempting to censor free speech and political thought on campus. Wait, that's not entirely true. They don't have a problem with free speech and political thought from the left. It's just the conservatives they have a problem with.
By now we all know the story of Dennis Lennox. There's not much I can add that hasn't been more eloquently stated by Mike Volpe and Chet Zarko in recent days. The kid has almost single-handedly raised the Gary Peters issue to national prominence. But just because Dennis thinks that Peters should choose between campus and Congress (in a District hundreds of miles away while violating federal campaign laws that prohibit public employees from pursuing office) doesn't mean the nut-job administrators at Central agree with him.
Quite the contrary. They're waging a very personal war against an outspoken conservative student because he dares have opinions different from theirs.
The school has targeted Lennox by banning videotaping, ignored a dean who assaulted him, directed faculty and staff to avoid the use of CMU e-mail when discussing Gary Peters because it could be released under FOIA, accused the kid of suffering from mental illness because he holds conservative political views and has an interesting haircut. They went as far as to call him the next Virginia Tech-style school shooter.
And that was all them playing nice. Well they've decided to take the gloves off and we're going to have to do the same.
Read on . . .
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