[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Fwd: [ExComm] Fwd: News-Gazette coverage

[Karen Medina]

Robert Naiman and others,

I speak for myself and my opinions are not those of AWARE's.

I support each student's right to wear whatever tee-shirts they want. I am saddened by each choice to wear a chief shirt. Education is our tool in this case. I support the University's attempts to include courses that talk about the issues. I think more can be done that might educate the sports fans.

I am deeply saddened by the fact that there are videos like the anti-semitic videos that one person has decided to share with UPTV. 

As a student at the University, I am greatly relieved by the Trustees' decision to drop the "Chief" as the school's mascot.  The mascot was institutionalized racism. 

Freedom of speech is a vital freedom to all and a vital freedom for minority voices especially. We should defend this freedom for each person, otherwise it will be taken away from all.

-karen medina

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:52:16 +0200
>From: "Robert Naiman" <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Fwd: [ExComm] Fwd: News-Gazette coverage  
>To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
>
>   I suppose we may soon see letters in the
>   News-Gazette charging the peace community in
>   Champaign-Urbana with gross hypocrisy.
>
>   One the one hand, we are insisting that the Urbana
>   City Council defend the right to air Holocaust
>   denial videos on UPTV.
>
>   On the other hand, we are demanding that the
>   Chancellor stop students from wearing pro-Chief
>   shirts in University-sponsored events.
>
>   What's the consistent principle that unites these
>   two demands?
>
>   On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Belden Fields
>   <a-fields at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>     Begin forwarded message:
>
>       From: Belden Fields <a-fields at uiuc.edu>
>       Date: April 30, 2008 8:57:52 AM CDT
>       To: UPEexcom <EXCOMM at prairienet.org>
>       Subject: [ExComm] Fwd: News-Gazette coverage
>       Begin forwarded message:
>
>         From: Belden Fields <a-fields at uiuc.edu>
>         Date: April 30, 2008 8:55:01 AM CDT
>         To: Constance H Shapiro <chshapir at uiuc.edu>,
>         Eleanor Tewksbury <etewksbu at uiuc.edu>, Joyce
>         Tolliver <joycet at uiuc.edu>, Adriana Cuervo
>         acuervo at uiuc.edu, Belden Fields
>         a-fields at uiuc.edu, Kevin Fritz
>         kfritz2 at uiuc.edu, Franci Miller
>         familler at uiuc.edu, Adriana Cuervo
>         <acuervo at uiuc.edu>
>         Subject: News-Gazette coverage
>         Dear Excom members,
>         I hope that you all had a chance to see Julie
>         Wurth's excellent story about the Senate's
>         Equal Opportunity and Inclusion Committee's
>         resolution and policy statement in yesterday's
>         (Thursday, the 29th) News-Gazette.
>         Belden
>
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