Editor:
In Monday’s Evergreen, I was disturbed to read that at peaceful demonstration conducted by the WSU College Republicans, a CES professor called a student a “white shitbag.” For a department concerned with “enhancing student abilities to appreciate our differences and to negotiate our way through an increasingly interconnected world so that we may become better informed, caring, citizens,” I found that remark a very surprising way to “negotiate” differences.
A CES professor using a derogatory racial remark is ironic but even more disconcerting is this same professor called the fence “no different than a confederate flag or a swastika.” So a symbolic fence that represents keeping illegal immigrants from crossing the border is on the same level as a symbol responsible for the defense of slavery or the holocaust of millions of people. Is this what they teach in CES? Why are my tax dollars and tuition supporting this?
I agree a forum would be a better way to express opinions, but the College Republicans decided to hold a peaceful demonstration as was their right. A better way for the CES department to counter the opinions of the Republicans would have been to encourage CES majors to hold a demonstration of their own or set up a forum. No student should ever be required to request a carte blanche from the CES department to demonstrate peacefully.
Andrew Keck senior, biochemistry
Politics from the Palouse to Puget Sound
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
"Expressions at demonstration aren’t representative of CES’ mission"
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