Students try to stop Bristol Palin's stupid speech!

[Joanne98]

Saint Louis (Sapientia Media) " Ire towards a planned speech by Bristol Palin has gone viral at Washington University in St. Louis in the day following a $20,000 funding approval for the event by the university`s Student Union. With the goal of discussing abstinence during its Sexual Responsibility Week in February, the Student Health Advisory Committee submitted a $20,000 funding request for the speech that was approved in a 7-4-1 vote by the Student Union Treasury on Tuesday night. Studlife, the campus newspaper of Washington University, broke the news to the student body shortly thereafter with an article that has served as an impetus for frustrated students, planned protests and attempts to repeal the decision.


A message of abstinence is respectable and should be validated by a speaker, but please bring someone to Wash U who can broaden students` thought processes and experience " stated student Jennifer Shirar, reflecting the general sentiment that 20 year old Bristol Palin may be unable to provide meaningful insight to the student body. The Wash U College Democrats organization created a Facebook event entitled "No thanks, Bristol!` with the goal of organizing active protests of the speech. In the single day since its creation, over 800 students have marked their intention to attend. The event`s size is currently over five times that of the Wash U College Democrats Facebook page itself, quelling concerns about purely partisan opposition.

Efforts by students to stifle the speech have focused on Article IX Section 1 of the Student Union Constitution, which allows for a referendum to occur upon the submission of a petition containing the names of 5% of the student body. Sources place this number at 302 names. At 6:45pm on Wednesday afternoon, the Facebook page "Digital Petition for SU Referendum on Bristol Palin Speech` (http://facebook.com/suPalinPetition) was created by Sapientia Media with the goal of rapidly reaching this number. As of press time, 436 students have joined the digital petition and the list continues to grow as the social media effort has gone viral among its target audience.

Referendum efforts were stifled at a Student Union meeting on Wednesday night when it was determined that the organization`s madnated 10 day minimum waiting period preceding a vote on a referendum would exceed the time it would take for both parties to sign the contract for the speech, at which point a refund would not be possible. This has lead organized efforts to end the event into disarray and frustration

http://thesop.org/story/20110127/planned-speech-by-bristol-palin-goes-viral-at-washington-university.html

The parasitic Palins need to go suck money somewhere else.

[cali]

1. gad. Bristol at Washington University?

[Raschel]

18. She's going to give them the finger if they don't let her speak.

[Swede]

2. Let them suck it from their fans,don't take it from ordinary folks.

Grifters.

[livetohike]

3. Disgusting

What could a 20 year old, high school dropout, raising a baby on her own, have to speak about to college students??

[tanyev]

7. "Don't have sex before you get married!

I did, and now I'm rich and famous." :cry:

[Ignis]

48. !

:spray:

[Raschel]

14. So embarrassing. She's very uneducated.

[thereismore]

29. That's what's so revolting. nt

[MedicalAdmin]

31. Any dropout single mother raising a baby on her own.

Or Bristol who has tons for monetary and personal help? Because there is tons to learn from those who have been there and done that. but BP (another slick)? Not so much.

[livetohike]

47. Exactly. She can stand there and talk about what hardships

she endures as she gets everything handed to her for doing nothing worthwhile.

[petronius]

37. I'm sure there's at least a couple of young women right there on that campus with

a similar experience and more developed insights than Palin. This is a ridiculously large amount of money for the product they're getting...

[MedicalAdmin]

52. It's spending for Gucci and getting Walmart.

[RainDog]

4. how shameful that a university would have this ignorant person speak n/t

[SoCalDem]

5. Just don't go

Row after row of empty chairs would speak loudly

[woo me with science]

11. Seriously.

That would be the best response.

[Skidmore]

12. In all likelihood, the Teabagger Party would truck in some

benighted 'baggers to serve as an audience for her. That means about a sextegenarians.

[yellowcanine]

19. Yes but student fees are paying her to make the speech. If the teabaggers want her to make a speech

let them pay the fee.

[SoCalDem]

27. Perhaps the parents should deduct an appropriate amount

from the next tuition payment, along with a note explaining that their student's payments are not to be used for obnoxious ideologues' idiotic "speeches".

If the fee is $20K and there are 500 seats , that works out to $40 per student.

[LynneSin]

45. But Bristol would still make $20k and that's a big waste of money

I can't believe this is the best that the Student Union could find.

To me the waste of $20k is the biggest reason why I would protest.

[Johonny]

6. so if you are not sexually abstinent you will make 20 K talking about it?

Wow that's a great lesson to teach the student body!

[Canuckistanian]

8. Next up - Charlie Sheen giving a talk on sobriety

Or Linday Lohan on how to handle stardom gracefully.

[malaise]

17. Wrong

I'm speaking on virginity - give me my $20,000

[cbdo2007]

9. Shouldn't they have someone who believes in abstinence talking about abstinence?

Sure, she's had her fun so now she gets to tell everybody else why they should live differently than she does.

[LynneSin]

46. You have to wonder if this girl actually believes in what she is saying

or is forced into it because of her mother.

I suspect the latter.

[southernyankeebelle]

10. I can't believe a freaking 20 yr old getting $20,000 for a speech on sex. This girl would have

been considered a whore if it were any other girl. She doesn't live what she preachers. Good god when are these people going to realize the Palins are laughing all the way to the bank on your money. I would invest the $20,000 in helphing tuition for students who need it. Surely they can find a doctor to give that speach.

[SpiralHawk]

13. Especially when she is a Total Hypocrite (R) about the subject

Bwaaa ha ha ha ha -- this is Republiconism in the Raw, and it sure is phony...

[MedicalAdmin]

34. For far less that $20,000 they could have world recognized

expert doctors with research and clinical experience and tons of speaking experience to give that speach. If they need a referal send them my way and I'll hook them up for pennies on the dollar.

Seriously. $20,000 for a gutter slut grifter?

[RegieRocker]

15. Who's idea is this? That is the important question.

I wonder if this is political?

[yellowcanine]

16. Huh. One would think that if they had the signatures for the referendum, that would prevent the

signing of a contract until the outcome of the referendum is known. Seems like a no-brainer. If the powers that be can hurry up and sign a contract during a mandatory waiting period, the constitutional right to have the referendum is effectively circumvented. Hard to believe that such a ruling would stand. Certainly doesn't pass the laugh test.

[MedicalAdmin]

35. Any contract lawyers out there who want to comment.

It seems to me that once the contract is signed it will be binding UNLESS the signing authority doesn't actually have the authority at the time of signing, in which case whomever signed the contract would be PERSONALLY responsible for the debt.

But I'm not a lawyer, I just hire them as needed (FYI - I LOVE LAWYERS - most of em stand up for the little guys - it is my contention that one of the reasons that the rich want to destroy the middle class is so that they also destroy the professional class except those that they keep as trained ponies).

[yellowcanine]

36. It stands to reason that if a referendum is scheduled the signing authority is not there.

Anyone with any sense at all would not sign a contract under those circumstances. And presumably they have to get some kind of approval from the University Comptroller before they could legally sign such a contract.

[MedicalAdmin]

53. Unfortunately it doesn't stand to reason.

The authority is granted with the position. In my case as the VP of operations for this facility I have binding signing authority, and who ever has it for the institution has it as well.

What a referendum would do would be to modify policy (board level decision) which would then flow down to the administration who would then be tasked at carrying out said policy. As such, until the policy is changed (even on a ad hoc basis such as this), the authority would remain in place until removed. A wise admin would NOT put their head on the cutting block just to prove a point. This doesn't mean that this admin is wise.

It is likely that the deadline being pushed is being pushed from Jr. Miss Grifter's camp. If they can get the contract signed then they get the money and deliver the speach, or the admin ends up cancelling and paying (perhaps a percentage,, perhaps all) anyway.

[tridim]

20. Can't they just sell tickets to the teabaggers?

Give her 50% of the door. If it's only $20, so be it. That's showbiz.

[HopeHoops]

21. "Stud life"?

:rofl:

I know, it probably means "student life". It is just funny given the context.

[Lasher]

22. And they say college sports is driving up tuition costs.

Seems like a lot of people are getting rich on college & university speaking fees.

[Erose999]

23. They should not be giving a platform to someone like Bristol who has used hate speech like "Faggot"

and worse in the national media. Nor should they be spending their students money on an event that polarizing.

I really hope those 800 people attend to protest. I'm at UGA, where we have more than twice as many students as Washington @ St. Louis, and I really doubt 800 people would even attend a Bristol Palin event to hear her speak. And thats here in the heart of the Palin base. If 800 people show up there in St. Louis to protest, the protesters would probably outnumber the attendees by 2 to 1. LOL

[SoCalDem]

28. Watch her resumé a few years from now...."attended WU"

:rofl:

[Erose999]

32. They will probably give her an honorary degree given the kind of asskissing that the Palins usually

get from the establishment.

[Raschel]

41. +1

[Starbucks Anarchist]

49. That wasn't Bristol. It was her sister Willow.

[RKP5637]

24. Tired of 'Palin Welfare' and exploitation of the masses! n/t

[lonestarnot]

25. Grifter needs to pay her electric bill.

[bullwinkle428]

26. GRIFTERS GOTTA GRIFT.

[Imagevision]

30. The media should promote a moritorium on Palin for the month of February, if good, extend it...

[Broderick]

33. HAHA

Can't get one here! SOP. SICK OF PALIN

[Jokinomx]

38. It is just mindboggling.... I am dumbstruck on the hypocrisy

of the rightwing. This is an INSULT to the students of Washington University. I hope the protest continues to grow and those that actually made the decision to PAY her to speak are forced to resign from their positions.

:puke:

[jpak]

39. Breaking: Charlie Sheen to give Temperance speech at Washington U.

:evilgrin:

[Hannah Bell]

40. good for them. $17K to hear a 20-year-old speak about getting pregnant as a teen = ridiculous.

[eissa]

42. As a staff member at the university where SP spoke

I wish the students at Washington U. LOTS of luck. The teabaggers on the board of the CSU, Stanislaus foundation shoved her down our throats and trucked in her supporters by the hundreds to both attend the event and counter our protests. Palin supporters are a rabid bunch so the students at WU better be prepared. They are getting ripped off BIG TIME. For god's sake, I remember taking a sex ed. class in jr. high eons ago and they brought in THREE unwed teen moms to talk about abstinence for free. I'm pretty sure St. Louis has plenty of girls in the same shoes as BP (minus the grifting family and ignorant sheep behind them) who would speak for a fraction of that.

[LynneSin]

43. I heard they are going to have Hannibel Lecter as a guest speaker for Cooking Week

:eyes:

That $20k can pass out alot of free condoms and give way better advice than Palin ever could.

[Octafish]

44. Let her talk.

Tape what happens and put it on YouTube.

[Disintermedia8]

50. There's a Shirvell under every rock n/t

[crim son]

51. Wash U is a pretty serious school.

I can't believe anybody thought bringing Bristol on campus is a good idea. V. odd.