Sunday, January 08, 2006

FIRE prez: DePaul is a "basketcase"

Got to see my TiVo-ed Hannity & Colmes from Friday night. Greg Lukianoff, the interim FIRE president appeared on the show with Joe Blewitt, a member of the DePaul College Republicans.

Yes, Luckianoff called Chicago's DePaul University, in the context of free speech issues, "a basketcase."

What was discussed on the segment was DePaul's odious conduct in preventing the College Republicans from protesting Ward Churchill's paid speaking appearance there.

FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, got involved (as they are in the Klocek case), and Friday FIRE announced that DePaul eased up on the onerous censorship rules it threw at the CRs in the attempt to protest Ward.

On the show, Hannity was of course tough on DePaul. Even liberal Alan Colmes admitted that DePaul's response to the College Republican's requests "was not well handled."

Colmes made a feeble attempt to get Joe Blewitt to turn the tables and have Joe say that Churchill should be banned.

Joe calmly responded that he would have "preferred that Churchill not be invited," adding that tuition at DePaul is expensive, and some of that tuition money went to pay Ward.

It's believed that Ward Churchill was paid about $5,000 by his DePaul for his services.

Luckianoff concluded that as far as free speech concerns, DePaul "has a nasty history" in that area.

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