FIRE, the organization founded to defend free speech on college campuses, reports: Duke Keeps Pro-Life Group Out of Women’s Center During ‘Week for Life’. It seems that some free speech is freer than other free speech:
Duke University’s Women’s Center has canceled an event about motherhood because the sponsor was engaging in pro-life expression elsewhere on campus. A Women’s Center representative told Duke Students for Life (DSFL) that “we have a problem” and an ideological “conflict” with the event, which was supposedly canceled to protect Duke women from encountering the event during the group’s “traumatizing” pro-life “Week for Life.” The group’s president has turned to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help.
“Duke appears to have an unwritten but officially enforced stance regarding abortion that has resulted in pro-life groups being shut out of the Women’s Center,” said FIRE Vice President Robert Shibley. “This treatment is a deeply hypocritical violation of the Women’s Center’s promise that it ‘welcomes discordant viewpoints from varied experiences.’”
Indeed. The women’s center mission statement says:
The Women’s Center strives to inculcate feminist attributes and goals in every aspect of its programs and administration. To say that our work is “feminist” is to acknowledge that gender is a central lens through which we conduct inquiry and develop practices and policies—critically considering what it means to be sexed, raced, and historically and culturally situated and proposing alternatives to traditionally male models of leadership, thought and practice. We ascribe to a broadly defined, fluctuating and inclusive feminist ideology that welcomes discordant viewpoints from varied experiences.
Fluctuating? Fluctuating??? In other words, it’s one thing one week and another thing next week. Leaving aside the obvious jokes about a woman’s prerogative to change her mind, they’ve officially crossed over into Alice-in-Wonderland territory. “Inclusive” means…well, it fluctuates. And so does “discordant viewpoint”. It means what they say it means today, and it also means what they say it means tomorrow. They’re just not necessarily the same thing.
Flux ‘em.
UPDATE: Duke recinded this decision earlier today:
Victory for Free Speech at Duke: Pro-Life Group’s Rights Restored
DURHAM, N.C., March 30, 2010—Duke University has reversed a decision by its Women’s Center that prohibited the Duke Students for Life (DSFL) student group from holding a discussion on student motherhood at a Women’s Center venue during the group’s “Week for Life” event. The group’s president turned to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help. Only hours after FIRE exposed Duke’s decision to public scrutiny yesterday, Women’s Center Director Ada Gregory wrote to the group to say that “mistakes were certainly made that should not have occurred” and that she had “taken steps to ensure that such an incident will not happen again.”
Bad press spooked them?
Tags: Duke University
Duke is a perfect example of what’s wrong with higher education; it is reeducation redefined, with the express purpose of creating the “new man”.
Abortion is evil. Duke ruined the lives of 4 students because of a false rape charge levied against them. No one should pay any attention to Duke.
Translattion: we have no moral or ethical center, let the fre-for-all begin!
By discordant viewpoints they probably mean which abortion method being used. Pigs. And I don’t claim them as “sisters”.
Typical liberal mind think. I guess i will not be rooting for Duke in the final 4
Nevergiveup wrote:
Helen Smith has an interesting piece on that. She (a PhD psychologist) thinks that they have a cognitive deficit. There’s something missing that makes them unable to not be pricks.
I need Duke University’s Woman’s Center like a fish needs a bicycle.
We welcome diverse opinions so long as they all agree with ours.
OT: Connecticut is experiencing our worst flooding since the 1950s.
vagabond trader wrote:
Yep! That’s what “diversity” means!
And war is peace and slavery is freedom.
vagabond trader wrote:
It’s a tad wet down here in NJ also
@ Nevergiveup:
Groton and Mystic are getting hammered,friends down there had to evacuate. We’re on high ground but man, never saw the yard this swamped. Hopefully it’ll stay out of the basement.
@ vagabond trader:
It’s global weirding.
Nevergiveup wrote:
I will, but I don’t confuse the academic side of the institution with the athletic one. In any case, my observation is that academics usually dislike the athletic department, and the more leftwing the academic is, the more they hate it. They especially detest football or any big-time, successful program.
You can bet that the same feminazis responsible for un-diversity at the Women’s Center wouldn’t be caught dead cheering at a men’s basketball game.
vagabond trader wrote:
Well, it’s only a hunch, but I think the subs float?
@ snork:
Hope his estate on Long Island is weirded too then.
wolfie wrote:
OK, good point. I’m back to rooting for Duke.
See update.
vagabond trader wrote:
Has anyone the carbon footprint of his estate ?
@ wolfie:
can bet that the same feminazis responsible for un-diversity at the Women’s Center wouldn’t be caught dead cheering at a men’s basketball game.
Those are the ugly chicks with mustaches. Some people call them dykes. lol
wolfie wrote:
I’m sure that played into the decision to cancel the Lacrosse season when those guys were falsely accused by that nut case. They were just looking for an excuse.
NoThreat2U wrote:
In many Arab countries, they call them wives?
Forget the boring intellectual drivel, this is the great equalizer:
http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/feel-good-story-more-women-buying-firearms
@ snork:
Good. I just wish the Same thing happened at the University of Ottawa before Ann Coulters talk was cancelled.
/the left up here in our institutes of higher learning is beyond entrenched…
@ Guggi:
Probably a bigger number than our budget deficit.
@ PaladinPhil:
If I had to speculate, I’d say that some large donors weren’t pleased at the news. As a private institution, they don’t have to grant free speech to anyone. But they do have to beg for money.
If you read Tom Wolfes ” I am Chslotte Simmons” Duke was his template & it was not flattering.
But I do like C oach K
@ Nevergiveup:
It’s sort of optional for them.
@ Nevergiveup:
You mean these?
http://69.5.3.73/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/3-camels.jpg
lobo91 wrote:
Not below a certain depth it isn’t
@ vagabond trader:
I sure saw plenty of women at the gun show this weekend.
RIX wrote:
Yeah but he was kinda quite through that whole lacrosse thing. That bothered me alittle
@ lobo91:
Gee,cannot imagine why.
@ Nevergiveup:
If it rains that much in CT, they have bigger things to worry about.
vagabond trader wrote:
No those are considered property. Oh wait this is a Muslim country ha- so are wives. Never mind
snork wrote:
I’ll bet they got multiple tingles up their hairy legs. The sheer thrill of shutting an athletic program down!
@ vagabond trader:
I got dibs on the cute one!
lobo91 wrote:
But those were American Women. Pistol Packing Mammas
I remember reading the most idiotic study a few years ago done by some professor at Duke about violence against women in the military.
The conclusion was that the best way to protect women in the military from violence was to fully integrate them into combat units.
Think about that for awhile…
@ RIX:
RIX, they are all cute and finalists at the Saud “Beautiful Camel Contest” held annually.
Women need guns to cook the bacon.
snork wrote:
FIRE wins again! God bless them.
@ Nevergiveup:
Muslims, where camels are worth more then the women.
lobo91 wrote:
Yeah like Dental Readiness?
@ snork:
LOL! It’ll do in a pinch.
I recall that & I didn’t like it either.
I remember how quickly the LaCrosse players were condmned by the media & their own faculty. There was a lot of bias against them because they come from “priveleged ” backgrouds & the accuser was a poor black girl.
It was reverse discrimination & I doubted that they were guilty from the jump. The facts didn’t add up.
OT- Just picked up this book.
Europe’s Ghost: Tolerance, Jihadism, and the Crisis in the West (Hardcover)
The Author is Michael Radu and there’s a forward by Robert Spencer.
@ lobo91:
*blink* *blink*
/*POP*
@ snork:
Ooooooh! Crispy!
Oh, don’t get me wrong. I’d date any of the three , but that one!
Yeah Baby!
@ Nevergiveup:
You could have spent the day with me, at a train-the-trainer course for using a HMMWV rollover simulator.
Trust me…running it’s more fun than being inside.
I’m going to feel it tomorrow…
@ Rodan:
My wife just got back from Rome where she was visting our daughter, last night.
She said that Rome is really a city of cotrasts & fascinating.
She did tell me that they just Loooooove Barack Obama over there.
@ RIX:
Did she offer to send him to them?
Alleged CIA victim sentenced over mayor attack
A German man whose claims he was kidnapped and tortured by CIA agents reached top political levels was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday for attacking the mayor of his home town.
A state court in the Bavarian city of Memmingen convicted Khaled el-Masri, 46, of bodily harm for the attack last September on Neu-Ulm Mayor Gerold Noerenberg, who suffered a broken finger and an eye injury.
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The Ummah, where men are men, women are trash & goats are nervous.
lobo91 wrote:
I just wrote my orders to go down to Parris Island this summer. looking forward to being with my Marine cousins. While i was looking for the Dental Clinic I found this:
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As mentioned above, recruits receive a dental exam and, when needed, some dental treatment during recruit training. In some cases that dental treatment includes having wisdom teeth pulled. Upon hearing this, one recruit mom was shocked and expressed her feeling that this practice is barbaric. See the response “from under the campaign cover” below:
If your son is lucky, they’ll pull his wisdom teeth. Every recruit is evaluated on a case by case basis. Pulling them after they hit the operating forces is too late; he should be learning how to kill the enemy and not taking rest days for dental surgery. Recruits get plenty of medication and time off after getting their wisdom teeth pulled. Their “agony” is kept to a minimum in recruit training, since learning to deal with hardship, pain, and loss is something they’ll never experience in combat. Don’t worry though… if he doesn’t get his wisdom teeth pulled I’ll make sure the Drill Instructors give him extra attention when other recruits do.
My point is this: Relax. Your son’s wisdom teeth (you know, the teeth that humans developed as an answer to our ancestor’s early diet of coarse, rough food, but no longer have an evolutionary need for) are in the capable hands of U.S. Navy medicine. The most barbaric thing the Navy practices is a 12 cup coffee maker in a 15 man shop.
He’ll be fine. It’s time to take off the training wheels.
-United States Marine and Series Gunnery Sergeant, 2009
@ RIX:
Tranzis love fellow tranzis. They know their own.
Actually she did. Apparently he is all over the local media, print & TV. They apparently like that he is taking us down a peg.
In other words , he is destroying this country & they approve.
@ RIX:
But a beautiful camel is prized over any harem…
I hope you all saw this???
ARTICLECOMMENTS (116)Updated March 30, 2010
Marine’s Father Will Not Pay Court-Ordered Funeral Protesters’ Fees
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The father of a Marine killed in Iraq whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters told Fox News he will defy a court order and not pay the protesters’ appeal costs.
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The father of a Marine killed in Iraq whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters told Fox News he will defy a court order and not pay the protesters’ appeal costs.
Albert Snyder, of York, Pa., told Fox News he does not intend to pay $16,510 to Fred Phelps, the leader of Kansas’ Westboro Baptist Church, which held protests at Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder’s funeral in 2006.
“I don’t think I’m going to be writing a check until I hear from the Supreme Court,” Snyder told Fox News on Tuesday. “I’m not about to pay them anything.”
The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered Snyder on Friday to pay Phelps. A two-page decision supplied by his attorneys offered no details on how the court came to its decision.
The decision adds “insult to injury,” said Sean Summers, one of Snyder’s attorneys.
The Judge should be hung by his balls
That’s apparenntly the gist, “Why can’t you just be like us?”
@ Guggi:
The should turn him over to my tender mercies for a few days. When I’m done, he’ll kiss the hand of the CIA interrogator who “tortured” him.
Breaking News ON DRUDGE
EXCLUSIVE: Iran Nuclear Scientist Defects to U.S. In CIA ‘Intelligence Coup’
Shahram Amiri Disappeared Last June in Saudi Arabia, Reportedly Now Resettled in the United States
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March 30, 2010
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An award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist, who disappeared last year under mysterious circumstances, has defected to the CIA and been resettled in the United States, according to people briefed on the operation by intelligence officials.
Too bad we will not do anything with the intel but bitch and moan
Seen that the Big CJ spotted a neo-nazi flag at tea party
Iron Fist wrote:
Yeah. Try drinking the harem’s piss mixed with their milk.
@ PaladinPhil:
Yup the American New left, The 3rd World Liberation Movements, The Euro-Socialists and the ChiComs are all Progressive based movements. They all have the same goals.
@ Nevergiveup:
LOL
Still not as much fun as the Humvee on a Spit, though.
@ snork:
I ain’t that kinky, but I would try the better ones out two or three at a time…
.
I hope that this father is not held in contempt.
Why didn’t the judge just order the guy to pay war reparations to the savages who killed his son?
@ Iron Fist:
The Iron Fist rendition. They give them over to you for a few days. I think that’s a fair payback for the evil these Imperialists have done.
@ Iron Fist:
Mohammedans have four wives and don’t know what to do with one of them…
RIX wrote:
The cock sucker of a Judge can rule against the Dad if he wants, that is his perogative, but to charge him court costs was way outa line. What a bastard.
@ RIX:
Dane geld. Once you’ve given the geld, you never get rid of the Dane. That doesn’t work in translation though. Dane -- geld! will take care of the Dane quite nicely…
@ RIX:
I was stationed in Italy for 15 months.
Trust me…we don’t want to be on their level.
We couldn’t even drink the water in our building, because of the E. Coli contamination.
Isn’t one of the Haddiths that you can have sex with a she Camel, but you may not drink the milk?
Keep saying, “it is just another culture.”
@ Nevergiveup:
It’s injury to insult.
@ Nevergiveup:
I think it was a panel of judges. And probably not all of them have balls.
@ Nevergiveup:
I wonder if some money went to the Judge or if he just hates the military? I’m betting on the latter, because you couldn’t buy his behavior with anything the Phelps Phreaks can afford.
O.T.
Has anyone seen this one yet?
http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2010/03/charles-johnson-fairly-sure-the-tennesee-state-flag-is-neonazi-logo.html
My daughter & her roommates got complaints that they shower too much.
Italians like lots of Euros apparently aren’t fanatics about personal hygene.
I geuss they smoke everywhere & dogs are not neutered, so thy just boink all of the time.
On the other hand Palm Sunday Mass at the Vatican was apparently other worldly.
Damn, this is good news:
I hope Obama doesn’t send him back as a “goodwill” gesture…
Iron Fist wrote:
More about El-Masri
Interesting that to be a terrorist fits the status for “refugee”
A report on March 2, 2006, suggested that El-Masri may have been a leader of a radical, Lebanese group ideologically affiliated with the Muslim brotherhood called “el-Tawhid” in the early 1980s, which fought Alawites in Tripoli during the Lebanese Civil War.[5] The description of the group fits the Islamic Unification Movement, also known simply as “Tawhid”.[17][18][19] German reports assert that El-Masri himself reported his being a member of “El-Tawhid” or “Al-Tawhid” when he applied to Germany for refugee status, in 1985.
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Arson incident and other legal troubles
Snip
@ shadowman:
Once again , Johnson has made an ass out of himself.
@ Iron Fist:
Phelps is a lawyer. If he could convince a moonbat judge that this is a way to spank a patriot, I can see how that could happen. But his lawyer was remiss in not playing the same game and mentioning the homophobia angle.
Way too little information. We’ll know more as the facts actually come out.
@ shadowman:
if you squint it really looks like odin’s cross
@ shadowman:
Someone here (Bunk?) debunked that in real time. That’s old news @ the Blogmocracy.
Gee Juan Williams is a jerk
@ RIX:
All true.
And they’re bad drivers.
Really bad.
As in, the only worse ones I’ve seen were in the Middle East.
During the holiest week in Christianity the Obamas have decided they will not be joining a new church due to security concerns.WTF?
Quick OT, but I know of you have followed my personal soap opera…
My divorce is final, and all is very well. Thank you all for your prayers and encouragement.
Got to run--take care.
vagabond trader wrote:
Ha?
@ Nevergiveup:
You just noticed?
I can see Glenn Becks face , if I view it sideways.
@ vagabond trader:
His own, or the church’s?
@ Nevergiveup:
FOX reported it a little while ago. They are not going to join a new church because of security issues. Date nights on the town are still planned.OK. I made up the last bit.
Iron Fist wrote:
*shudder* Probably is thinking about it as an overture.
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
Congratulations!
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
Now you are free to get on with your own life.
lobo91 wrote:
I’m just continually amazed just how stupid
@ vagabond trader:
I suppose the potential for lightning strikes could be considered a “security concern.”
And yet they look down on us.
@ snork:
Missed it first time round,see that the comment is a couple of days old.
Didn’t mean to rub salt into old wounds.
@ RIX:
They’re a lot like Muslims in that regard.
“Look at all the great things we gave to the world.”
Okay…name some from the past 500 years or so…
Everybody have a good evening
@ RIX:
You too.
vagabond trader wrote:
He just had his Seder. What’s he need a church for?
DURHAM, N.C. — A federal judge is dismissing a lawsuit filed after the son of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was dismissed from the Duke University golf team.
U.S. District Judge William Osteen Jr. said in an order Tuesday that the offers used to lure Andrew Giuliani to the school did not constitute an enforceable contract. A magistrate judge had also recommended dismissal of the case last year.
Giuliani had argued that a former golf coach had promised him an opportunity to compete and a right to access Duke’s athletic facilities. He alleged that Duke’s golf coach manufactured accusations against him to justify kicking him off the team in 2008, when he was a junior.
An attorney for Giuliani didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/judge_rejects_golf_lawsuit_filed_oT5OyQQlx0YshHk5Hq40jM#ixzz0jhfeFPZp
Good the kid is a punk
@ lobo91:
Apparently they attend services at Camp David because they don’t want to disrupt a public church. Because they are so considerate.
@ Kirly:
Brainboy?
@ snork:
It was a halal of a good time I hear.
@ shadowman:
There’s no good way to search this blog, unfortunately. That’s something that could use improvement. If something just popped up in the threads like that, there’s no way to find it short of going through the threads one-by-one.
vagabond trader wrote:
Oy. Buzzsaw rubbing off on you?
snork wrote:
heh. might as well be. grrrrrrr!
@ Nevergiveup:
Dad’s a lawyer, and he didn’t get it in writing? Ummm…
@ snork:
Hes on Pesach break,someone has to pick up a little slack.
@ snork:
He inspires us all with his razor wit.
vagabond trader wrote:
Back door Imam?
@ Nevergiveup:
Naw, Juan is a dick. True jerks might take offense…
@ shadowman:
Dude, our vagabond trader got the hattip! Way to go vagabond!
Dan Quayles son, Ben, is running for Congress in the district I live in. Congressman John Shadegg is retiring. wow.
and i’m still about to kick somebody’s ass too.
@ shadowman:
He needs to stick to programming and Jazz Music. Flag viewing is not his strength.
Pardon me for intruding, and I apologize if somebody else has already caught this, but I thought folk here might be interested. Seems our good buddy Chaz has been caught jumping up and down on his own crank in golf spikes again…
http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.com/index.php?topic=13235.0;topicseen
Heh.
@ Nevergiveup:
The Guilianis are Yankee Rednecks. What do you expect?
Ah -- too late, I see.
Oh well -- nothing ventured, nothin gained…
@ Mike C.:
Login required?
@ MacDuff:
I wouldn’t go that far. I think that he’s not a religous man at all. He only went to Wrights church for networking purposes only. After all, most people there fit his ideology.
Rodan wrote:
But a photographic genius needs to have an eye for detail…
@ shadowman:
It was worth a repost for those of us who missed it earlier….like me!
@ vagabond trader:
It would inconvienience the worshippers to have to bang their head on the floor Mohammedan-style. Bet he and Sasquatch break out the headscarves for the girls if he is re-elected.
Iron Fist wrote:
Is “Yankee Redneck” an insult?
@ snowcrash:
http://minx.cc/?post=300047
Kirly wrote:
Dan Quayle was an unneccecarily maligned figure, and I’ve always seen him as a causualty of the Left’s viciousness.
I ask you; who is/was a better VP, Quayle or Biden?
@ MacDuff:
PaladinPhil wrote:
Arguably, there was no religion there. But it makes a great cover.
snork wrote:
We are talking about the same guy right?
@ snowcrash:
Can’t figure out why Zip gave me the tip. Someone else went swamp diving and found it the other day. We were just laughing about it here.
Weasel Zippers is a great breaking story blog btw!
vagabond trader wrote:
Only if you equate “man’ and “Imam”.
@ snork:
Hussein is a militant atheist. I’d bet the farm on it.
@ Nevergiveup:
More of a description, although I guarantee you no one from the South with a Redneck label would be considered for the Presidency. I didn’t call them White Trash, but I did say “Yankee” which means about the same thing…
snork wrote:
Oops -- forgot about that. Here’s the original…
http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2010/03/charles-johnson-fairly-sure-the-tennesee-state-flag-is-neonazi-logo.html
@ snork:
No, there’s a religion there, it just has nothing whatsoever to do with God.
MacDuff wrote:
i agree with you that Dan Quayle was viciously attacked and maligned. the media never bothered to report that he was reading the school que cards and didn’t want to make a scene so he just read it as is.
biden is a dumbass and should have his ass whooped.
vagabond trader wrote:
Bingo. He may have sympathies for muslims as a group, and fond recollections of his childhood in the madrassa, but I don’t think he believes anything but Marxism.
@ Kirly:
Biden is one heartbeat away from the Presidency. Remember that the next time you hear a Leftist dis Sarah Palin.
@ Iron Fist:
Look at the positive side. He can’t sign anything with his finger up his nose.
@ MacDuff:
I got to meet Dan and Marilyn Quayle at a fundraiser a few years ago.
They’re both very nice, and he is certainly not the idiot he was made out to be by the MSM.
Iron Fist wrote:
i never forget it. nightmares every damn night. but, at least he’s so stupid he’d do less harm the the won.
there are just so many asses out there that need to be whooped right now.
@ lobo91:
I think that may have been a turning point that a lot of us missed. It was shortly after the successful painting of Quayle as a stooge that they went after Bork with an ice pick, followed by what they did to Thomas. And then in 2000, Bush was both an idiot and an evil genius. Quayle was the beta-test. Seemed to work. That’s why they jumped on Palin within literally minutes of her announcement. The machinery was up to speed and ready to engage.
I’m nominating my Sheltie for VP.
She’s smarter than Biden, and, unlike him, house broken.
She’s old enough, if you count in dog years, and I have papers proving she was born in the US.
@ snork:
I would go back earlier than that, to Ford.