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Home Front: Politix

Student Wins Lawsuit for Violation of 1st Amendment Rights

2004-05-06

Political Correctness is nothing more than another name for intolerance.
Cal Poly Settles Suit by Student
A Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student who sued the school for allegedly violating his 1st Amendment rights reached a settlement with the university this week. The school promised to expunge Steve Hinkle's disciplinary record and to pay $40,000 in legal fees. Hinkle, a 23-year-old industrial technology major, was reprimanded in November 2002 after several students complained that fliers he had posted in the school's multicultural center were offensive. Hinkle, president of the Cal Poly College Republican Club, was advertising a speech by Mason Weaver, the author of "It's OK to Leave the Plantation." Weaver argues that reliance on government aid enslaves blacks.

The Cal Poly Judicial Affairs Office, after a seven-hour hearing in February 2003, found Hinkle guilty of "disruption of a campus event," after several students said the fliers distracted them from a meeting, Hinkle said. The school had ordered Hinkle to submit a written apology to the offended students. Hinkle refused, saying his constitutional right to free speech was suppressed. He contacted the Brooklyn-based Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which filed a lawsuit against Cal Poly. "He didn't do anything wrong, period, ever," said Greg Lukianoff, director of Legal and Public Advocacy. "It's not like the university didn't have the right to an opinion. If they thought that was offensive, they're free to say that." The student, now in the school's graduate program, said he was glad the fight was over. "If they've shown any intelligence throughout this process, it's that they settled with me," Hinkle said. "I'm glad this is over so I can actually concentrate on school. I can go back to hanging up fliers and being more active. I would absolutely do it again." The politically correct totalitarian left that has infected our universities suffered a setback.

Link to Case Detail
Cal Poly SLO Pres. Warren Baker should be fired by the state board of regents for this case going as far as it did. He cost taxpayers not only the $40,000, but enforced California already tarnished image as home to a bunch a bunch of kooks.
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The "offensive" book by an "inauthentic" black conservative author.

Posted by:BigEd

#4 The sight of you offends me. You are a white male, and breathing.

The PCs have learned Dick Morris' triangulation.

He supposedly "interupped" a Bible Study sponsored by the "Campus Crusade for Christ", who are usually conservative.

If you read the transcript of the hearing, The CCC is not a recognized club as Cal Poly SLO.

Of course the meeting was supposed to start at 7PM, and they were or were not (this is unclear) sitting around eating pizza and drinking Coca-Cola when hew came by (within insult distance of the "good" Christians) and put the flyer up on a public bulletin board which happened before 7.
HUH?

Now the campus policeman came by and took the report after 7, but one of the witnesses said thet he had put up the flyer at a time that was AFTER the policeman came by and took the report of the disturbance he created by posting the flyer.
HUH?

Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-06 2:13:39 PM

#3 The Cal Poly Judicial Affairs Office, after a seven-hour hearing in February 2003, found Hinkle guilty of "disruption of a campus event," after several students said the fliers distracted them from a meeting, Hinkle said.

It would appear Hinkle was held responsible for the fact that other students possessed the attention span of fruit flies.

Work with me here, isn't it a good thing to "Leave the Plantation?" Wasn't that one of the principles so many Yankees died for in the Civil War? Most of all, it took a $40,000 court case to reach this conclusion? Looks like it isn't just the students who are exhibiting low function intellectual capacity.

Posted by: Zenster 2004-05-06 2:03:42 PM

The 'Offensive' poster....
Hinkle was summoned to meet with school officials. They told him that the lecture announcement was offensive to the African-American students in the lounge. One administrator suggested that his being white and having blond hair and blue eyes was a "flashpoint."

Translation: It would have been ok if he had been black.

So, what is the definition of racism again?

Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-05-06 1:52:29 PM

#1 In other words, the admin thinks it's not ok to leave the plantation.

Baker is safe. He's head of the plantation.

Posted by: Lucky 2004-05-06 12:07:01 PM

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