In an interview on Thursday night, a Student Affairs dean said that officials from Student Affairs and the Office of Multicultural Affairs met with a number of students who had been present at the protest to offer support. The dean would not say whether officials met with specific student groups.Comrade Garcia forgets that the Minutemen are people that believe in the 2nd Amendment and other forms of private property.I guess the Minutemen speaking is a big deal at Columbia because no one on the faculty seems to have those views or we'd hear about Professors being attacked.Good luck to Columbia's fundraising team.
Adhemir Romero, CC '07 and president of the Chicano Caucus, issued a statement on behalf of the executive board Wednesday night expressing regret that the protesters had silenced Gilchrist. But Karina Garcia, CC '07 and the group's political chair, was seen on the stage and quoted in a statement by the ANSWER Coalition, an anti-war group that supports immigrant rights.
"Let tonight be a model for others around the country. And let it be a lesson to the Minutemen: wherever they go, they will be confronted," Garcia told ANSWER. "We have an obligation to the millions of immigrants in this country who are being demonized and targeted by the Minutemen, KKK, and other racists."
Monday, October 09, 2006
Columbia Socialists Students Vow To Carry on Disrupting Anti-Immigration Speakers
The Columbia Spectator reports on the aftermath of the recent student riot against free speech: