As Harvey Mudd's alum blasts off into space, Dean of Students Jeanne Noda proves that she's been living on Mars.
Harvey Mudd has no right to threaten its students -- and by proxy, the rest of the Claremont Colleges -- with reporting our white board writings to Campus Safety. As of this writing, we do not know who was involved with the comment that read "Hillary is a foxy lesbian." We do know that the author has poor taste.
I just sent an email to Dean Noda. She informs me that the comment was erased and that the dorm proctor spoke with the students and explained why posting such comments might impact others negatively. Although she says that there is "no disciplinary action" forthcoming, she informs me that "Campus Safety is notified about all such cases in compliance with the Claremont Colleges' "Communications Protocol for Bias-Related Incidents" found on p. 1-45 of the [HMC] student handbook."
Well, it's time to end that policy once and for all. A system where speech is sent to our campus police department is akin to the Stasi. It has no place at school.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
On the "Hillary is a Foxy Lesbian" Comment
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4 comments:
I might be mistaken, but somewhere in the middle of last Spring's insanity, Dean Huang started using the phrase "per intercampus agreement" to begin these emails. You can tell he likes this policy about as much as we do.
CMC gains much from being a part of the 5-C community, but the cost is often that our administration has to make nice with these nut jobs.
Sometimes, we strike a compromise. For example, all five colleges will once again cancel classes for Cesar Chavez Day, but this will be done on Friday, March 28, when most do not have classes. Cesar Chavez Day is actually on his birthday, the 31st, a Monday.
I think the only proper response to this is to encourage everyone to write "Hillary is a foxy lesbian" on their whiteboards.
I just saw this in my inbox, and I could not agree more with you. The second comment is also perfectly correct--this sort of an attempt at "chilling" free speech requires an act of solidarity.
Peter is on the opposite side of the aisle. I'm glad we see eye-to-eye on this one.
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