MSU YAF Violates Anti-Discrimination Policy

William Allen and Frederick Fico apparently have been reading the Democrats’ playbook by attempting to tug at the heart strings of the common man, but in doing so engage in a unitary republican act – ignoring, forgetting, and lying about key details, all the while writing in a condescending manner perfected for the airwaves by the likes of Neil Cavuto or the President’s weekly radio address.

Granted, the MSU Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives may have been at fault by failing to provide the two groups key details on how and why they violated university policy. However, as neither a representative of the State News nor Michigan State University, only a representative of progressive ideals and common respect for fellow man, allow me to fill in the details. From the State News of September 20, 2007 “A student said he was kicked out of a Young Americans for Freedom meeting on Thursday and an Employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center said he was asked to leave prior to its’ start. Phillip Moon, a writer for the blog YAF WATCH, said YAF members told him he was not allowed in a private meeting based on his political affiliations. According to the university, all SRO’s must follow the following guideline: [SRO] shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, height, weight, veteran status, age, political beliefs, or familial status.. My father may not have bought me an education at an Ivy League, but my excellent public school education would seem to indicate that YAF violated this policy.

Aside from their self congratulatory attempts to cast themselves in Mel Gibson’s next multi-million self-love affair, these advisers have written almost as cryptic of a letter as the Office for Inclusion supposedly sent. As opposed to listing possible ways that the Office for Inclusion could remedy the purportedly serious violations it has committed, these two, wait for it, faculty advisers, resort to little more than academic name-calling and

Yet, these advisers are not the only authors to make buffoons of themselves on the opinion page. Leo Madarang’s piece of minority inclusion in the Republican Party was enough to give me a second spit take of the day. Glossing over the ‘facts’ of the piece; it is true that the republican party has a grand history of fighting for the rights of minorities; but a titanic shift occurred in 1964. President Johnson singed the Civil Rights Bill, and with it, reportedly commented “We [Democrats] just lost the south”. Since that historic moment, the Democratic Party has been the better representative of minorities (albeit far from perfect), of the two major parties. Madarang subconsciously knows this by failing to provide one example of Republican assistance to minorities after the historic signing.

Meanwhile, those few abominations of minority republicans almost all share one thing in common – inordinate wealth. I am sure the minority republican voting levels in East L.A. or the South Side of Chicago hovers somewhere near zero. Furthermore, I will not even begin to touch the social acceptance of Republican Filipino’s - a quite religious and prosperous minority group.

While I would love to continue to point out the flaws in the arguments of these two pieces, I have to excuse myself; I must go back to my fourth job to insure Health Care for my children, before the President is able to take that away from me.

Sincerely,

Miles Greengard
Political Director, MSU Democrats
Junior; International Relations