THE QUAD
Entries from December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006
Saving the Forest for the Trees
From the Chronicle of Higher Education's news blog:
Seriously, that's what they're most worried about? Not missed classes or missed work? Not the insanity of protecting a renewable resource (I'm assuming these oak trees aren't thousands of years old or anything.) Nope; falling out of trees it is.Protesters of a University of California at Berkeley plan to cut down 43 oak trees to make way for a student athletics center took to the trees this weekend. According to today’s Daily Californian, three activists, including one Berkeley student, climbed into the trees over the weekend in order to draw attention to the plan as the university’s Board of Regents is about to make a final vote on the project, which also includes renovations to the football stadium. One of the protesters vowed to stay in his tree “until they guarantee that the trees will be preserved or until I am forcibly removed.” University officials said they were primarily concerned that the activists would hurt themselves falling out of the trees.
Cody Beckman
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Students display an "ACLU Nativity Scene"
Press Release from The Young Conservatives at UT Austin:
AUSTIN, TX – The Young Conservatives of Texas - University of Texas Chapter announced today that they will be displaying an “ACLU Nativity Scene” on the West Mall of the University of Texas campus on Monday and Tuesday, December 4th and 5th. The group’s intent is to raise awareness on the extremity of the ACLU, and bring to light its secular-progressive efforts to remove Christmas from the public sphere. The display, the first of its kind in the nation, will feature characters that are quite a bit different than the standard crèche.
“We’ve got Gary and Joseph instead of Mary and Joseph in order to symbolize ACLU support for homosexual marriage, and of course there isn’t a Jesus in the manger,” said Chairman Tony McDonald. “The three Wise Men are Lenin, Marx, and Stalin because the founders of the ACLU were strident supporters of Soviet style Communism. The whole scene is a tongue-in-cheek way of showing the many ways that the ACLU and the far left are out of touch with the values of mainstream America.”
No joke. I wish I'd thought of it!