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Showing Original Post only (View all)Fordham College Republicans disinvite Ann Coulter, apologize for inviting her in the first place [View all]
The comments from the college president are also very much worth reading, they are at the link as well.
http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2012/11/10/ann-coulter-vs-the-jesuits-a-college-invite-is-rescinded/?cxntfid=blogs_get_schooled_blog
From the College Republicans late Friday:
The College Republicans regret the controversy surrounding our planned lecture featuring Ann Coulter. The size and severity of opposition to this event have caught us by surprise and caused us to question our decision to welcome her to Rose Hill. Looking at the concerns raised about Ms. Coulter, many of them reasonable, we have determined that some of her comments do not represent the ideals of the College Republicans and are inconsistent with both our organizations mission and the Universitys. We regret that we failed to thoroughly research her before announcing; that is our error and we do not excuse ourselves for it. Consistent with our strong disagreement with certain comments by Ms. Coulter, we have chosen to cancel the event and rescind Ms. Coulters invitation to speak at Fordham.
We made this choice freely before Father McShanes email was sent out and we became aware of his feelings had the President simply reached out to us before releasing his statement, he would have learned that the event was being cancelled. We hope the University community will forgive the College Republicans for our error and continue to allow us to serve as its main voice of the sensible, compassionate, and conservative political movement that we strive to be. We fell short of that standard this time, and we offer our sincere apologies.
From the College Republicans late Friday:
The College Republicans regret the controversy surrounding our planned lecture featuring Ann Coulter. The size and severity of opposition to this event have caught us by surprise and caused us to question our decision to welcome her to Rose Hill. Looking at the concerns raised about Ms. Coulter, many of them reasonable, we have determined that some of her comments do not represent the ideals of the College Republicans and are inconsistent with both our organizations mission and the Universitys. We regret that we failed to thoroughly research her before announcing; that is our error and we do not excuse ourselves for it. Consistent with our strong disagreement with certain comments by Ms. Coulter, we have chosen to cancel the event and rescind Ms. Coulters invitation to speak at Fordham.
We made this choice freely before Father McShanes email was sent out and we became aware of his feelings had the President simply reached out to us before releasing his statement, he would have learned that the event was being cancelled. We hope the University community will forgive the College Republicans for our error and continue to allow us to serve as its main voice of the sensible, compassionate, and conservative political movement that we strive to be. We fell short of that standard this time, and we offer our sincere apologies.
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Fordham College Republicans disinvite Ann Coulter, apologize for inviting her in the first place [View all]
Enrique
Nov 2012
OP
Having to have fresh AND rancid dead bats for her to feed on was too much....nt
Evasporque
Nov 2012
#52
Fordham should suspend College Republicans for even THINKING about inviting Coultergeist.
Panasonic
Nov 2012
#2
We've had a lot of budding little tyrants here in the last week or so, it's nuts. (nt)
Posteritatis
Nov 2012
#80
I think the point is that the rest of the community made their lives miserable, made it socially
Squinch
Nov 2012
#71
i hope this is a beginning of a trend of republicans turning away from the extremes of their party
BREMPRO
Nov 2012
#72
it was fun! but i'm hoping they become less radical for the good of the country
BREMPRO
Nov 2012
#84
It's possible. We've seen her in action for 20+ years, they are only 20 years old.
reformist2
Nov 2012
#75
maybe they can find a rhino-one that has been purged from the "neo-con wacko repug party
newspeak
Nov 2012
#67
dunno. i wasn't aware of her until late 2002, at which time she struck me as 100% a-hole
struggle4progress
Nov 2012
#34
Wait a minute, these COLLEGE STUDENTS expect folks to believe they don't know her schtick
NC_Nurse
Nov 2012
#21
They shouldn't be questioning inviting her, they should be questioning their membership in the group
tarheelsunc
Nov 2012
#22
My best friend went there in the early seventies and it was a much nicer
underthematrix
Nov 2012
#43
Wow, did people read the president's awesome statement? From Father McShane.....
tpsbmam
Nov 2012
#44
That's why the local Jesuit colleges have more respect than Dominion colleges.
Panasonic
Nov 2012
#62
Someone who posts on another message board is a student there. Apparently College Repubs invited her
Mayberry Machiavelli
Nov 2012
#55
Do you feel change coming? Is rejection of the larger corporate media next?
woo me with science
Nov 2012
#79