Conservative Group Threatens to Sue University of Wisconsin
A conservative organization has threatened the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a lawsuit if the group's local chapter doesn't receive funding for the upcoming school year.
Last year, the university's Student Services Finance Committee voted to withhold funding from Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, a group that argues against government involvement in environmental issues. The committee said CFACT didn't comply with some paperwork requirements, the Associated Press reports. But CFACT and some state legislators believe the decision was politically charged.
"We have a huge problem in society," Wisconsin state Sen. Glenn Grothman told the AP. "Too many of our universities hate any diversity of viewpoint other than that of the hard left. It's appalling."
Grothman, along with eight other state legislators, appealed to UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin to reconsider her position on the issue. (Martin rejected CFACT's latest appeal for funding in April, saying that the clerical omissions warranted the committee's decision and that she had no authority on procedural issues.) CFACT wasn't the only group on campus that lost funding, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. Several other clubs lost money because of stricter criteria that require campus groups to benefit all students and not just particular groups.
The AP reported that, in past years, CFACT received between $130,000 and $200,000 in funding. According to its website, CFACT used that money to promote issue awareness, bring speakers to campus, fund internships, and rent office space.
"It takes time and money to organize a lot of these things," CFACT National Director Bill Gilles said. "There's absolutely no way we can maintain a 300-to-400-person internship program with no money."
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Let The Purges Begin:
When President Obama hired Clinton-era players, he didn’t just signal a failure to grasp the fundamental lesson of that administration: loss of trust. Take Barack Obama’s CIA director, “nice, quiet, civilized” Leon E. Panetta. Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff. California State University – Monterey Bay’s patron saint. And, founder of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy. Leon Panetta, who flew back to Monterey at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and announced to the CSU: “There has been a stalker in the White House. It was frightening.” Thanks to some rather adroit media manipulation, students heard only Panetta’s accusations, but learned nothing of Monica’s exculpatory blue dress from local KSBW TV News. Panetta controlled the school’s cable TV, from which even CNN disappeared. Fox News would never be an option. Panetta who, from his publicly-funded political institute opposed George W. Bush’s Homeland Security reorganization, and the detention of enemy combatants at Guantánamo Bay.
When Leon Panetta denounced the “Bush Doctrine” form his Panetta Institute, located squarely on the former US Army Fort Ord, where both his so-called “think tank CSU,” and his namesake institute are located, it was Memorial Day 2002. So, Panetta told the national television audience he was located in Salinas, Calif. instead. Conspicuously absent from the CSU bookstore, and its own well-stocked tax-funded oppression studies library: any textbook by a Caucasian author. (The text, Jihad vs. McWorld, by Clinton advisor Benjamin Barber, where tribalism and globalism collide, however was allowed. The Green Movement adage: Think globally, act locally, best sums up the book, says Barber.) Panetta even used KSBW News to deflect Gary Condit’s detractors during the Chandra Levy disappearance. Remember Fox News commentator Barbara Olson? Flight 77? Perhaps not coincidentally, Panetta’s CSU opened its doors on 23 August: Italian anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti Memorial Day. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis pardoned the Sicilians posthumously 23 August 1977, making the 23rd official. How the US Department of Education helped the Clintons “build a community,” and how the Western Association of Schools & Colleges conspired to accredit the “experiment,” thus granting these Alinskyites a license to steal my tuition money and your tax-dollars, is in itself a study in fraud that makes ACORN look clean.
To be continued ...
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How about cutting WISPIRG instead?
CFACT has done fine work on the UW campus. GREAT speakers and a breathe of fresh ideas compared to the stale leftwing groupthink that has stained a once great "sifting and Winnowing" tradition at Madison. (WE invented it!)
It took young UW College Republican Prez Scott Southworth to sue the UW way back in the 90's to get ANY money for non Marxist or simply anything other than the far left's viewpoint being funded with student fees. It took years but thanks to a Federal judge with a functioning brain who recently retired....can you name him?-Not Shazam! but.....Shabazz to say, "Scott, you are right! The UW needs opposing viewpoints!"
The LiBS and BIDDY's never think that anyone else could be smarter, better informed or simply have a better idea than they have.
Cut funding for WISPIRG. It's rolling in dough. When the actual public turned out FEB/MARCH 09 in four communities to protest the stupidity of trains for our small community over buses or simply maintaining the highways we have now, 4 to 1 AGAINST trains- the Trainiacs called WISPIRG to send a VAN load of UW students to sing the praises of trains for Danes. It was funny. None of them knew what they were talking about and it was great entertainment for the audience. Laughin' at the Liberals is so easy in Madison!
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