DePaul has really walked into a big mess by inviting Ward Churchill to speak at the Chicago college on October 20. Nicholas Hahn III started the "My Political Agenda" blog this week. It appears he's a DePaul student, as well as a member of a minority group there: a conservative.
Hahn and some other DePaul University students met with DePaul's Jim Doyle, who is the Vice President of Student Life there.
From Hahn's blog:
Since DePaul actually does have a minority, and it's not the one you're thinking of, the Republicans and I have spearheaded an opposition against Churchill's planned speaking engagement. We met recently with a Mr. Jim Doyle, Vice President of Student Life, and even with stunning facts, convincing rhetoric, and an emotionally moving anecdote, Mr. Doyle retreated from his Catholic and American obligations and said, "...we are not inclined to cancel at this time..."
Mr. Doyle, you say you stand for "academic expansion?" I say you stand for al-Qaeda. Your cowardly bones cannot withstand the Catholic and Patriotic duties you must carry out as a University administrator. I'm just as for academic expansion as you are, but I recognize our horizons are guided by Catholicism. You've seemed to ignore that just to appease the anti-American vocal minority on this campus.
What this University doesn't seem to fathom, is that we have NATIONAL support. Governor Bill Owens has just publicly extended his support. Members of the national media have been contacted. And probably most important to the University...we have the support of MANY top-tier donors to the University. I guess at this point, we have an ultimatum, "Revoke his funds, or we'll revoke ours."
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