To the Daily Pilot: Get your Facts Straight
Posted by: Jonathan Constantine | 02/17/2008 12:42 PM
A commenter on my previous post, explains the failure of the Daily Pilot to offer adequate UCI coverage, and documents the history of the unrelenting intimidation, hate speech, and violations of campus code of the Muslim Student Union:
Looks like the Daily Pilot editorial leadership thinks that UCI should encourage the Muslim students to "dialogue" with the Jewish students, and if that happens, all will be well.
They've already tried that. From what I've gathered, in 2002 or 2003, after the MSU repeatedly used "Swastika = Jewish Star" and other Holocaust references in their posters, UCI forcefully sat down the MSU and Hillel/AFI leadership and stated that Holocaust imagery and especially "Swastika =Jewish Star" were hereby banned.Then that MSU leadership graduated.
Guess what appeared on a huge MSU placard paraded around during Zionism Awareness Week in May 2004, as well as I believe even June 2004 graduation:
A picture of a wall spray-painted with the symbols of a Swastika, an Equals Sign, and a Jewish Star:
When asked how this could happen again - after all, what happened to the ban? - Dean of Students Sally Peterson told one student that the ban was just a guideline, and thus unenforceable. Since then, UCI has tried dialogue in many ways: - the inter-religious forums of Fall 2004:
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