Banned at Pepperdine
Of human bondage.
Mike Adams reports that a College Republican group’s sign criticizing “Obama and Socialism” was banned on campus at Pepperdine University.
Reprogramming of the young American mind begins now.
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Good luck with all that Pepperdine.
I thought Pepperdine was a Christian liberal arts college and law school?
Oh well, California is virtually socialist anyway.
piano,
and alot of Jews voted for obambi…
it is what it is.
Surreal ain’t it.
How dare they question “the one”!!??
No soup for them!!
Was just poking some comments at another blog and found this citation:
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams
Our dead guys had it right
AJ,
did your team win? mine won thursday in OT ugly but a W….
Socialist liberals love the monopoly they have on “multi-culturalism”.
When you get to make all the rules it’s easy to control all the people.
Where are the so called leaders and why don’t they have to answer for things like this?
If conservatives do not take the lead and demand equality in all these decisions it’s going to be a continual decline on every issue we hold dear.
We’ve been on this slippery slope for some time now. We’re just picking up speed is all. It will get worse before it gets better (if it ever does in our lifetime).
WHOA!!!
wE JUST HAD AN eArThQuAkE!!!
yIkEs!!
BIG JOLT, MADE ME JUMP, MORE ON SIZE IN A FEW MIN.
AJ are you okay?
“Respectully submitted,
Douglas C. Neidermeyer, Sergeant-at-Arms”
yep, big jolt 4.1 12 miles from Anza which is about 25-30 miles from here.
woke me up…. lol
ThatSam,
When you get to make all the rules it’s easy to control all the people.
Are you going to be controlled? I sure won’t.
Where are the so called leaders and why don’t they have to answer for things like this?
WE ARE THE LEADERS……
If conservatives do not take the lead and demand equality in all these decisions it’s going to be a continual decline on every issue we hold dear.
equality is what got us here.
WE are not equal WE are Americans they are not.
AJ,
lolo ya nut glad you are okay
I pretty good at guessing usually, I would have said at least a 5.0….
I’ll check the site and see if they change it.
bansharia, you are right in one respect but wrong in another. You may not be controlled right now but you have to agree it is heading that way. When they start pushing through laws that require you to do what they want you will be controlled.
Those in college have been living with this for years. They control how and what you learn. Not everyone follows it but more and more those in college are being “educated” to believe socialism is kind, good even patriotic.
Obama will now start pushing through his socialist and enviromentalist agenda that will control how much of your income you get to keep, what you drive, what you eat, where you get healthcare and how warm or cold your home can be.
I agree nobody controls us by force but when you can set up judeges and pass laws to get what you want nobody has to put a gun to your head to control you.
The schools (especially pre-high school), will always be the under-the-radar fifth-column left battlefield that comes right into most our homes every day. We neglect that at our peril.
James Greenidge
Queens, New York
Well, that began decades ago. That’s how a socialist/communist charlatan was able to get elected…. We’re going to see the brainwashing switch into a higher gear now.
We start taking back the classrooms by taking up Obama’s offer on his “volunteer” forces to help in the schools. Bet he wasn’t thinking of conservatives infiltrating the schools by volunteering to help “change” America in the classrooms.
When they say Liberal Education they really do mean Liberal, don’t they?
AJ, hope the quake isn’t too bad-at least for you. But that just might be Feinstein, Boxer and Pelosi meeting with the Governator again.
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That every man be armed-you too ladies.
America First
America Alone
Americans Come Home
Hillsdale College is looking better all the time.
Wow, SamIAm, (I was tempted to change my handle for this comment to “GreenEggs&Ham”…)!
That
wasis possibly the most concise and best re-statement of what the Conservative unilateral disarmament has effectuated.Can I use that, please? Whenever I do, I’ll attribute it as follows:
“When you get to make all the rules its easy to control all the people.”
– ThatSamIAm
2008/11/17@7:34 am,
MichelleMalkin.com
Not to seem bootlick or simpering, but I actually know (personally) a few semi-Libs, and I can see how this sort of “bumpersticker”-ized slogan-ated trueism would slip past their “Liberal-thoughts Allowed Entry Only” filter. Like a trojan horse, this is build to look like one of their braindead sayings, (”Hope&Change”), while acutally containing meat.
Rereading the previous, I seem to have accidently cast it in a mocking tone, but I don’t mean it that way. It is bedtime where I’m TDY, and I’ve just spent 48hs in full mopp gear as part of a readiness exercise. I hate sleeping in the mask… Well, under The Great Pumpkin’s Rule, we probably won’t make these preps, so I guess I shouldn’t complain.
Unilateral disarmament didn’t work for the cold-war, why did the (un)Intellegensia think it would work protecting the fabric of our Country? Why did they think the anti-American left would say:”Oh, look how nice these Patriotic Americans are! Let’s try to meet them halfway!” I’m sure I know, but lets let others think abt it…
Damn, I miss KFC & Wendy’s…. but I really enjoy Popeye’s. It just isn’t quite the same here as at home… [grin] Wow, I’m tired… starting to wander here…
xx more weeks…
Good night, guys.
The Nazis were big on that kind of banning. Of course, they usually shot the sign holders, so maybe this is an improvement. National Socialism Lite?
“You can’t make Socialists out of individualists–children who know
how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective
society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent.” – John Dewey
To sort of quote an american icon
“Be afwaid people, be vewy afwaid”
tre, thanks for the reminder. I was just trying to think of the name of that college…hopefully by the time my kids are ready for college, it won’t have swung too far left.
In the meantime, homeschooling is starting to look like a much more viable option for us. I’m happy to say that the elementary school still has the intellectual integrity to teach the children the importance of Columbus Day, Veterans Day, and even Hanukkah and Christmas, but as I mentioned on an earlier thread the middle school has a Koran in the library but no Bible.
Put up a sign hammering Bush and see if they take it down. Probably wouldn’t notice it.
bradley (#23), The Soviets improved on the Nazi system–if you disgrace and ban the person, he is then a burden on the whole family. Shooting is too quick.
mike.musculus (#22)–sleeping in the mask is only really bad if you roll onto it (I would). I look forward to your continued posting. (Implied “be careful, it’s a jungle out there.”)
bansharia (#6)–Based on last Thursday’s football game, I don’t think we are going to be friends. Well, maybe–it’s not as if this were baseball.
If I were these kids, I’d request a refund of their student activity fees. Guaranteed a Democratic Club sign that had “Stop Bush, Stop The War… Meeting at 8pm at the Tree of Hippies That Don’t Bathe” would stay up.
Pepperdine University has been renamed “Frankfurt School”
Let’s not forget – Harvard, Princeton and Yale all started as divinity schools. Look at where they are now.
As a student at a university, I submit to you that the hold the liberals have over education is systemic but yet still tenious.
For much of the at the least the last half century, they have cultivated and promited their agenda and sought out the students who would join them at the university level.
It would not be as hard as you might think to begin to reverse that process.
Talk to your children and encourage them to consider a career in academia.
Specifically at the university level and fight these liberals head on in their precious departments.
You should see the liberal professors squirm when as a student they are forced to debate not an 18 year old they can brow beat but someone like myself.
It is more fun every day.
I assure you it can be done.
The faculty and administration at just about every college or university is in the liberal camp. Most of them are intellectual cowards who are unable to provide the necessary exposure to all significant points of view. The alumni, however, can have an impact because of the donations they give — and if you are an alum of Pepperdine and don’t like what has happened, then write a letter to the president or the board. When the president of W&M college tried to damage the traditions and values of the institution, the alum were instrumental in getting him removed.
You’re welcome. My alma mater, Oklahoma State University, was okay. The campus newspaper, the O’Collegian, could be almost intolerable at times, but, the college atmosphere itself was pretty good.
However, it’s primarily an agricultural and technical college. Those people are, by and large, conservative.
I pray Hillsdale never succumbs this this liberal transformation.
I have three children, and soon they will be wanting to go off to school.
I will refer them to Hillsdale as an option.
I will not pay to send them to a liberal university. They can get jobs and student loans if they insist on that route.
I went through two universities with liberal leanings. Both had lousy student life programs because they focused on renaming the main walkways from the traditional names to “Cesar Chavez Way,” or some such stupidity.
Parents, when organized properly, have TREMENDOUS power to make changes for the better in the public school system.
There is a well-known story in New York City of Public School 41. Here’s how it went:
In 1997, the city experiences a budget cut which requires the principal of Public School 41 to fire one of the most beloved teachers. The parents got together, and contributed $46,000 to pay her salary, since the city couldn’t.
The head of the school system, Rudy Crewes, refused to accept the money, saying that it was unfair to the rest of the city.
HOWEVER, the parents didn’t care. They organized, and discovered that there were a lot of lawyers among them who liked the idea of sending their children to a public school. There were business people who contributed to political campaigns.
And by the time they were done making themselves known, the city backed down and allowed their teacher to stay.
Moral of the story: We all have a right to a quality public education. Kids benefit from the properly supervised social experience of school.
We can’t let politicians and misguided idealists take this away from us.
Too bad it didn’t occur to you to demand they dispose of some of their useless propaganda programs to pay for the teacher’s retention, rather than contribute more money for them.
Tre, I’ve said before that I’m jealous of you Okies…would like to move away from the East Coast…had the pleasure of doing a training session in Lawton, OK, a while back for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service…finer people I’ve never met.
Old Scout, thanks for sharing. As long as my children are in public school, I will be involved. That’s how I knew firsthand about the curriculum. And I plan to continue to be involved as a volunteer and parent activist if necessary, to keep things going well not just for my children, but to benefit all.
Your example was very encouraging.
My son is a junior at Pepperdine. I was very disappointed to read this but not really surprised.
I have to say first that this is a very fine school and my son has thrived there. I have no complaints in that regard.
But, as I said this does not surprise me. Though they are in fact a very conservative school, (for example, they are a completely dry campus, no drinking even for those of age. Also, sexual activity is not allowed and if caught having sex, one must come before the discipline board), they have a number of liberal professors.
When my son was a freshman, he was assigned a paper showing how oppressive tactics are used in this day and age. He decided to write about how Christians are being oppressed in the public square. The professor approved his proposal with the instruction to include other religious oppression also. After doing the research, he could find no examples of oppression of other religions. He went to the professor with his findings. She agreed to allow the original paper and he received an “A”.
I will be interested to hear what he has to say about this incident, if he even knows it happened.
I went to college from 78-81 and learned pretty quickly that I was more fluent in reality than my professors. I knew that if I were to write what I believed to be true, I would get a B, if I parroted the Professor, I would get an A. I decided during my first week of college after leaving the Navy, that I would never live on my knees. They gave me B’s, I earned my education. (Graduated in 3 years) Those unruly teenaged sons and daughters you have? Count your blessings that they have decided to live their lives as men and women and not sheep. Support them in their fight. Tell them that you know what it is like to be pressured by a Professor or a group of students and how to fight. I have. The time for complaining is over. It’s time to fight.
I plan to write to Mr. Bennett and ask him about this incident. It will be interesting to hear his response.
Pepperdine College was originally founded in South Central Los Angeles, with strong ties to the Church of Christ which was founded in Tennessee IIRC) and was origianlly very conservative.
Although the university still has ties to the church, its broadened its outreach for diversification (especially to students with $$$ – it is an expensive private school, after all) and, alas, perhaps to some extent its philosophy and principles.
Will protest signs against a President Obama be allowed?
Will protest signs against a
PresidentEmperor Obama be allowed?Every chapter of College Republicans needs to have FIRE on speed dial.
I thought this is where rich conservatives sent their kids who couldn’t get into Stanford…good grief, Ben Stein taught here! Buehler?!
So Pepperdine resorts to Stalinism in response to the sign that has the word Socialism.
Oh….and get used to it.
You can do that?
WHAT??? NO!!!!!
I am starting a Masters program there Fall 2009!! I chose that school because it is a more conservative school – one of the few left!!! This needs to be stopped now!!!!!
Exactly.After hearing about the compulsory public service I would be expected to perform, I knew the Obots wouldn’t appreciate the Good News of the Constitution, self-reliance and small gubmint I’d be putting out there.
Now, if we got everyone to say this kind of stuff, even the libs who don’t want to do community service — we could “get their minds right” again in a stealthy way.
The more I’ve seen of Ben Stein on Cavuto, the more I’m convinced he has gone “wobbly.”
Crossing Pepperdine off the list of potential colleges….
Did anyone else howl with laughter at the notion of the “Freedom Wall”? Since when have walls been associated with freedom? Only, I suspect, in an Orwell novel and on a university campus. Freedom wall, indeed.
I can remember not too long ago when Pepperdine was a place where free speech and conservatism were welcomed and encouraged.
Apparently the Education Gestapo has taken over yet another school administration.
Where does it stop?
I have familiarity with a freedom hall (not wall) at another university. It’s actually a stairwell. It should really be called the offensive hall. You put whatever is deemed offensive there and then fifty angry people cover it up with their hate filled responses. This is so some can pretend non-liberals have freedom of speech. Most people prefer to draw porn or make drug references on the walls.
Ha! That explains it all. Alumni, you’ve got work to do.
I have to agree with SandyB. The last time I saw Ben Stein, wobbly was my impression as well.
For those who haven’t seen it, there’s a great documentary out there now about liberalism on college campuses and it’s called, “Indoctrinate U”.
Rent it or watch it in chapters on YouTube.
Here is a copy of the letter I just sent to the president’s office at Pepperdine – and here is their phone number (ask to be connected to the president’s office, Andrew K. Benton) (310)506-4000
Dear Mr. Benton,
As a person who is enrolling at Pepperdine next fall, I am sorely disappointed with the university today. I just found out that the College Republicans’ posters were banned from campus as they said something about “Obama and Socialism.” What is wrong with that? What is happening to our free speech?? I am so disgusted by this move that I am seriously rethinking my desire to pay Pepperdine a hundred thousand of my hard earned dollars (in order to attend). The main reason I chose Pepperdine University was because it is one of the last bastions of free thinking education – or at least I thought it was. I thought that Pepperdine University had been able to keep out the rotten and diseased ideas that infect most other universities in this country – ideas like prohibiting free political speech because it is not politically correct, or because some people are offended – because they disagree.
The whole point of the 1st Amendment is to protect ALL speech – especially political speech. The College Republicans have a constitutional right to place those signs on campus. I am sorry that some people are offended at the thought of Mr. Obama being connected to Socialism, but that is too bad. It was not a personal attack on him, but a political opinion, that your school has now stifled. Do you want to preside over the death of free speech on your campus? Do you want to have your name associated with this, preserved in the history books as the man who let the ideas of liberty and freedom die at Pepperdine University? Especially troubling is that the man who took the posters and forbade their presence, Don Lawrence, is the “Director of Intercultural Affairs” for Pepperdine University. What in the world is the Director of Intercultural Affairs doing prohibiting free political speech? What is his jurisdiction? Why does he have that power? Who gave it to him? Most importantly, is Pepperdine University trying to imply that those of us who believe – with very good reason – that Mr. Obama plans to implement Socialistic policies are somehow being culturally insensitive?
You have crossed the line into Orwellian territory Mr. Benton, or you have allowed it happen under your watch, and this does not bode well for your institution or reputation. I imagine many prospective students will be turned off of your school now, as will many alumni who donate large sums of money. I know I would never give money to my alma mater if I knew they were stifling free political speech, and I am wondering if I want to give my money now to be educated at a school that can so easily give up that right in order to placate the oppressive wordsmiths who tell us what we can or cannot say.
Please call!! I don’t want to go to this school if it’s going to be like this!!! Let’s take it back before it’s too late!
(310) 506-4000
President Andrew K. Benton
AJ, which direction from Anza? I sort of know the area. Was in Temecula last Feb. Going back in June.
Hope nothing important got damaged.
Ah.. I found it. South of Palomar, near Cleveland National Forest.
Maybe it was the impact of freedom of speech hitting the ground at Pepperdine?
Hey, I joined as an alum member of my college’s Republican group.
The girl said it took months to get approved. The Democrats got approved in two weeks.
Free speech, if we agree with it.
They shoudl contact FIRE.
A caller on a talk show, today, talked of a woman who was accused of hate speech after she mentioned to coworkers that she had joined the NRA because of her fears of what is happening to our country.
These events are omens of what is about to happen us. Negative political speech will now be deemed “hate speech.” If you criticize the new administration, you are criticizing Obama, and the only possible reason you could have to be critical of THE ONE is because he’s black.
If you thought this election was bad, wait and see how many democrats accuse their opponents of engaging in hate speech during the next campaign.
It’s building to a tinder box, one spark is liable to set it off and when it does we had best not stop till freedom is restored in this country.
Be prepared folks, it’s going to get ugly.
I will never submit, NEVER
So, I asked my son about this and he said that the reason they were not allowed to put up the posters is because they mentioned a specific candidate.
According to Mr. Benton, Pepperdine allows free speech, including political, but cannot be seen as endorsing one particular candidate over another.
Apparently there was some flack with the school because Pepperdine faculty were used in the campaign for Prop 8, with the Pepperdine logo prominently displayed.
The school requested that all faculty who speak publicly about their personal political opinions do so without implying that Pepperdine endorses their position. If the Pepperdine logo is used, a disclaimer must be given saying that Pepperdine does not take official political positions in order to maintain neutrality.
On November 17th, 2008 at 2:48 pm, libertybelle said:
I highly recommend this school. I was there Monday, Nov. 10th. We were in California for my mother-in-law’s funeral and stopped in to see my son’s apartment in the honors dorm. There were political fliers all over the dorm windows and bulletin boards.
I asked my son about it. One of his roommates is an Obama supporter. Another was a Ron Paul supporter and he and the other roommate were McCain supporters.
He told me they could display political posters in their rooms as that was obviously their opinion and not that of the school’s.
If you have never visited the school. It is a remarkably beautiful place. Last year, my son’s room faced the ocean, right above the track oval. This year he is on the upper campus and though the common room faces the ocean his room doesn’t.
Still, there are deer which roam the grounds. The weather is nearly perfect. And the whole feel of the campus is good. Don’t let this one incident sour you on going.