GWU Update: Students get probation for smearing YAF
posted at 8:29 am on November 15, 2007 by Bryan
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It’s the expectedly weak denoument to a smear. Way to bring the hammer down, GW.
The University punished students involved in a controversial poster campaign with disciplinary probation and a $25 fine each, according to documents given to The Hatchet.
A University Police Department report also revealed its officers stopped and subsequently released students while they were hanging the posters. Student Judicial Services charged nine students with disorderly conduct and violating the University’s postering policy.
On the morning of Oct. 8, the group hung more than 100 posters containing the text “Hate Muslims? So do we!!!” The poster also featured a picture of an Arab man, labeling Muslims with “lasers in eyes,” “venom from mouth” and a “suicide vest.”
Seven students admitted the actions to The Hatchet on Oct. 9. Two others signed confessions with UPD but chose to protect their identity by not coming forward publicly. An SJS report states the students involved met each other through the Campus Anti-War Network, a student organization.
The poster was meant to mock Islamo-Facism Awareness Week, an event organized by Young America’s Foundation, a conservative organization.
Graduate student Adam Kokesh, a prominent anti-war Iraq veteran, said the satirical posters were intended to be overtly racist, according to an SJS report.
“It was act of civil disobedience,” Kokesh told The Hatchet Wednesday afternoon. “We knew we were violating postering policy and we were willing to take the consequences.”
Sergio Gor, YAF’s president, said he was unhappy with the outcome of the judicial proceedings. He added that the students unfairly attacked his group and should be suspended or expelled.
“I think that’s absolutely unacceptable that, once again, we see the double standards that are being applied – because the punishment doesn’t fit the crime,” Gor said.
So it’s perfectly fine to post hate lit as long as you’re also smearing fellow students in the process.
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If they do it again, it’s double secret probabtion. Then it’s suspension. And by the next time, they’ll all have graduated so it won’t be a problem.
Nethicus on November 15, 2007 at 8:39 AM
Why weren’t they expelled?
georgej on November 15, 2007 at 8:40 AM
Why weren’t they expelled?
Don’t you know liberals by now? Their hearts were in the right place, and it was a “great” idea. It’s just that they got caught, damn it all. Little slap on the wrist, little waggle of the finger, and a little “Don’t you do that again…”, followed by the “nudge-nudge, wink-wink”, of course.
Tom Blogical on November 15, 2007 at 8:46 AM
These little perps will have job offers from Foggy Bottom or the FBI and CIA.
bbz123 on November 15, 2007 at 8:50 AM
‘It’s time for someone to put their foot down and that foot is me.’-Dean Wormer, Faber College
pistolero on November 15, 2007 at 8:51 AM
Have the students set up some sort of legal defense fund to collect the $25? George Soros says he’ll kick in the first $5 to get things rolling.
saint kansas on November 15, 2007 at 8:52 AM
Wow, feckless pusillanimity on a college campus?
Knock me over with a straw…
JammieWearingFool on November 15, 2007 at 8:53 AM
I would have like to see what would have happened if YAF had actually had done that. They would have been crucified.
right2bright on November 15, 2007 at 8:53 AM
I thought they said the responsible parties would be expelled.
Of course, that was before they knew it was satire.
James on November 15, 2007 at 8:58 AM
Because the little bastard KNEW there would be no consequences.
highhopes on November 15, 2007 at 9:02 AM
Or worse, sent to UDel and forced to attend their resident advisor program.
I’ll admit I’m most disturbed by the lack of a “reeducation” component to this punishment. Seriously, where’s the requirement that they learn about conservatism and other components of the diversity that exists on campus?
saint kansas on November 15, 2007 at 9:04 AM
Does this still leave them open to civil litigation by YAF?
dm60462 on November 15, 2007 at 9:04 AM
You have to understand it’s all about standards. In this case, standards of dicipline. There’s one standard for conservative students and another for liberal students.
2theright on November 15, 2007 at 9:11 AM
Only conservatives commit hate crimes. Liberals commit “humor” when they try.
Sounds like a great school to send your kids, and mortgage your house for the education.
Hening on November 15, 2007 at 9:15 AM
They should do it, just to see what the reaction of GW would be.
pullingmyhairout on November 15, 2007 at 9:42 AM
Well that’s great,probation,so isn’t this facinating,
so some students get indocturnated by the left,Liberal professors,or bluntly socially reeducated by the lefty ideals,where are precious minds should be educated with no overhanging agendas by the left,and we wonder why we have
the Clintons,or Jefferson with cash in the freezer. Some of these students will go on to politics and engineer voting fraud,or tampering with vehicles(flatting tires)that the otherside uses to say get Republican shut-ins to vote,
because,I think the last case,those Liberals who slashed tires also got probation.
canopfor on November 15, 2007 at 10:00 AM
@JWF
Just because you won some fancy awards doesn’t mean you can start using them fancy words.
p0s3r on November 15, 2007 at 10:02 AM
That was my thought exactly. So, what is this teaching our kids? What the heck is going to happen when they get out in the real world?
4shoes on November 15, 2007 at 10:13 AM
little heads-full-of-mush
realVerse on November 15, 2007 at 10:14 AM
Now that the university has wimped out, it’s time to sue the bastards for slander. Let them know that trashing conservatives carries consequences.
Tantor on November 15, 2007 at 10:17 AM
The solution to this is easy: some conservative students should put up similar posters again and frame the weirdos for it then see if the probation really means anything.
foxforce91 on November 15, 2007 at 11:12 AM
if the Right had actually done this…
DOOMSDAY ON CAMPUS.
there would be mass hysteria if the same lame punishment were given to the Right.
madmonkphotog on November 15, 2007 at 11:15 AM
Fixed that for ya.
Kensington on November 15, 2007 at 11:20 AM
It’s fascinating, isn’t it? If the Left grows up believing that anything goes and there are no consequences for unethical and/or criminal behavior, when, exactly are the ethics and morality supposed to kick in, and why would they?
I’m not surprised that the country is generating Clintons and Jeffersons and people who believe that voter fraud is acceptable; what I’m surprised at is how relatively few have come to light so far.
Kensington on November 15, 2007 at 11:23 AM
To a lesser standard one is held.
Kini on November 15, 2007 at 12:12 PM
Isn’t it the liberal mantra that the ‘end’ justify the ‘means’, any means? If you believed that you had to face the consequence of your actions, you would no longer be a liberal.
docdave on November 15, 2007 at 1:07 PM
Exactly!
4shoes on November 15, 2007 at 2:15 PM
It’s fascinating,isn”t it?
Kensington on Nobember 15,2007 at 11:23Am.
Kensington:Amen to that.
canopfor on November 16, 2007 at 1:29 AM
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