DePaul Conservative Alliance member Nick Hahn III has his first column up at Townhall.com. One of my brothers attended the January symposium with on campus free speech with Thomas Klocek and David Horowitz at DePaul--Hahn moderated. My brother asked who he was, and I replied, "He's someone you should keep an eye on."
And now that he's a Townhall contributor, it'll be easy do that.
Hahn writes of the recent visit at DePaul by Amir Abbas Fakhravar, founder of the Confederation of Iranian Students--a group working for regime change in the Persian state.
Upon his arrival to Chicago, Fakhravar was adamant about touring DePaul’s Student Center (picured above), the main student gathering on campus. As he walked through the building, I saw that the excitement in him was racing. The flurry of activity––open discussions amongst students and between faculty, student-manned information tables, the mass amount of student computers connected to the world at state-of-the-art internet speeds––this all seemed to fill Fakhravar’s heart with joy.
Suddenly, he stopped in front of a bulletin board used to advertise student events. He turned and looked at me different from ever before and pointing to the flyers on the board, he said, "This is our dream in Iran." The diversity of ideas on display lit up his eyes with a hopeful vision of the future for his country.
In my introduction for Fakhravar, I stressed that despite our differences in language and ethnicity, we as students are one. The student generation is always the generation of liberty because it is the generation of prosperity, progress, innovation, knowledge, and dreams. Fakhravar captivated the audience with his personal stories and then surprised them with a seemingly unexpected denunciation of war. "I don’t want war. No one wants war," he explained, "but it is the Islamic Republic who does." After Fakhravar was through, he received a standing ovation––as the Natan Sharansky of our time rightly deserves.
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