DePaul Conservative Alliance demands apology from school president for smear

I received this press release yesterday. This Marathon Pundit post from two days ago summarizes the latest anti-free speech atrocity by the DePaul University administration.

I'm pleased to learn that the DePaul Conservative Alliance is taking up the cause of Thomas Klocek, too.

The chair of the DePaul University Board of Trustees, John Simon, can be reached here: jsimon@jenner.com

Today, The DePaul Conservative Alliance (DCA) called on the president of DePaul University to repent for actions inflaming racial tension and hate speech against them. In a seven-page letter, the DCA responds to attacks by DePaul’s president against them for holding an affirmative action bake sale.

The DCA letter is in response to an e-mail sent by DePaul’s president on February 15th. The president’s letter was apparently broadcast to all DePaul students and faculty indicating the DCA had been “censured” and “sanctions have been applied” because they held a “bake sale” in satirical protest of affirmative action. The DCA states that while DePaul’s president asserted, “I support DCA’s right to hold a protest on the topic of affirmative action”, his explanation of DePaul’s policy is incoherent and hypocritical, and his assertion that DCA “intentionally misrepresented” its bake sale insulted and slandered the DCA and its student members.

Among the demands in the letter to DePaul’s leadership are:

1. Publicly issue a written apology to the leaders of DCA for cancellation of the bake sale and allow the bake sale to be held at the same location;

2.Revoke the censure of DCA or censure and impose identical sanctions on the Students for Justice in Palestine and United Muslims Moving Ahead for their statement during the Thomas Klocek affair. Those students asserted that the Israeli treatment of Palestinians is like the Nazi treatment of the Jews. That statement was untrue, hurtful to Jews, Christians and others pursuing truth in that important dialogue;

3. Rescind the Student Organization Policy giving DePaul censorship rights to the content of what students hear and say;

4. Show that DePaul’s president really favors free speech by broadcasting through e-mail the DCA response to all the recipients of his February 15 email regarding the censure of DCA email;

5. Communicate these matters fully with DePaul’s Trustees and the Faculty Council.

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