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Creepy. Crawly. Cool. Join us for "Arthropods" A one-of-a-kind exhibition that explores the beauty behind the bug through a variety of media and aesthetics. Featuring metal sculpture, photography, watercolor, handmade jewelry, handmade ceramics, crystallized collections and more! Local artists include Victor Mozqueda, Walt Davis, Kiki Curry, Alexis Politz, Nicole Harris, Sandi & Breck Outland, …
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I love cleaning products. I love them.
I love cleaning products but I hate the chemicals. It's hard to find pet friendly, eco-friendly, organic cleaning products that are worth the money. It's surprisingly easy to make them yourself.
Being the cleaning product geek I am, I took it upon myself to test several different recipes in order to find the best DIY cleaning products. My mission: use common household items that are pet and eco-friendly. Not all of my recipes are 100% organic, but I can guarantee you have everything you need to make them already at your disposal.
Let's get our Ms. Clean on, y'all.
What You'll Need
- 6 oz white vinegar
- 6 oz dish soap
- 1 spray bottle
- Funnel (optional)
Creating Your Homemade Shower Cleaner
- Heat 6 oz. white vinegar in microwave-safe dish until very warm. I recommend starting at 15 seconds.
- Pour 6 oz. of dish soap into spray bottle. Use a funnel to make this easier.
- Pour a small amount of heated white vinegar into a spray bottle. This will cause intense foaming action. Repeat until all vinegar is in the spray bottle.
- Shake well.
How to Use Your Homemade Shower Cleaner
- Spray mixture anywhere in shower (tub basin, walls, shower curtain or wall, shower head, etc).
- Use a sponge to clean away dirt, grime, and soap build up.
- Rinse with hot water.
What I Learned
- This smells fantastic! Seriously -- unicorn fantastic.
- The solution is GREAT at removing soap scum. I was surprised at how thoroughly it cleaned the tub and walls.
- It's safe to use while you are in the shower -- yes, that means you can shower and clean the shower at the same time.
What is one shower cleaner recipe that you've used? Please share in the comments below.

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I noticed that this forum has lots of threads with rule/stats ideas most of which get buried.
so i was thinking if there was just one thread for the rule ideas and stat ideas then non would get buried.
6:your posts should have some rules/stats ideas in them.
7:asses always start at 6
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Description:A track taking you on a magical, emotional and uplifting journey through Christmas.
This track is a variation on a similar theme, with the theme being played 4 times. The music itself is a simple waltz. The arrangement starts out as small, simple, and innocent, and each time through, more and more layers of instruments are added until we reach a full orchestra for the final variation on the theme. It starts off childlike and crescendos to a majestic finish encompassing the full range of emotions we experience at Christmas.
The piece also closes with a simple rendition of We Wish You A Merry Christmas on the celesta and glockenspiel.
This is a fun, cheerful track for Christmastime that will put a smile on the face for anyone that listens to it, and thus it is suitable for any Christmas application. I hope you enjoy listening to it
Be sure to check out my other Christmas track Hark The Herald Angels Go To Hollywood!


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Breaking the Silence
Kenzell Evans
AuthorHouse (2012)
Reviewed by Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson for Reader Views (3/13)
Article first published as Book Review: Breaking the Silence by Kenzell Evans on Blogcritics.
"Breaking the Silence" by Kenzell Evans is definitely a heart wrenching story, illustrating all too well how the justice system in this country often does not deserve the name it carries. It tells the tale of a young man who after a very rough start in life tried to do the right thing by finding a real job and being a husband to the girl he chose, and a father to his child, yet was thrown off of that course by being falsely accused of a heinous crime. He was sentenced to a double life plus fifteen years in prison, in spite of the fact that he was at work when the crime was committed. This was actually something I found really hard to believe – that such a blatant miscarriage of justice could ever happen. There should have been no problem verifying his claim, and then the whole case against him would have fallen apart.
Be that as it may, he ended in prison, and he took the initiative to educate himself to the point where he was able to challenge his sentence and eventually get out of prison. Much later in life he actually found out who really committed the crime, yet at the end of the book it seemed that he decided to let the sleeping dogs lie and not re-open the case.
While I definitely have to applaud Mr. Evans for the courage it took to put his story on paper in "Breaking the Silence," I found the book extremely long-winded and difficult to read. Some background story on his childhood was certainly necessary, but all the rather boring details simply slowed the story down. I do not think it pertinent in the slightest to find out the height and weight of every person in the story, or the exact size of the diamond shaped pattern in the living room. A more streamlined story would have captured my interest much better, as would a better edited book. Yes, I know, I keep saying that, but most self-published books suffer badly from lack of proofreading and editing, and that will always deter me from enjoying them as much as I would otherwise.


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Vettes for Vets is an annual, all-Corvette car show organized to honor the hard work and dedication veterans have committed to our country. On Sunday, May 26, the general public can enjoy a free Corvette car show in the parking lot behind the California Automobile Museum and free museum admission for all veterans.
All visitors will enjoy our new exhibit Elegance in Motion: Cars of the Golden Age, which opens May 25.
Vettes for Vets will be a great day of sunshine and memorial for our veterans who will enjoy raffle prizes, food trucks coordinated by Sacto MoFo, and awesome tunes. Corvette owners can pre-register for only $10 and $15 at the gate. Call (916) 442-6802 or visit Calautomuseum.org for more Car Show registration details.
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Bucknell University
Location: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Website: http://www.bucknell.edu
Type: Private
Federal Circuit: 3rd Circuit
Speech Code Rating
Bucknell University has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one ambiguous policy that too easily encourages administrative abuse and arbitrary application. Read more here.
Bucknell University: University Slams Door on Student Satires of Obama Stimulus Plan and Affirmative Action
May 21, 2009
Student rights are under assault at Bucknell University, where a conservative student group's protests against affirmative action policies and President Obama's stimulus plan have repeatedly been shut down or forbidden by administrators using flimsy or patently false excuses. After the Bucknell University Conservatives Club (BUCC) had three events censored in two months, including the distribution of "Obama Stimulus Dollars" and an affirmative action bake sale, the students turned to FIRE for help. The case is still ongoing.» Read More
Student Handbook: Bucknell University Sex Discrimination, Sexual Misconduct, Relationship Violence & Stalking Policy & Procedures for Resolving Complaints Against Students
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 13, 2018
Sexual Harassment: Unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature when … such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with a person's employment or education, or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive employment or educational environment, and has no legitimate relationship to the subject matter of a course or academic research. Sexual Harassment also includes gender-based harassment and harassment based on an individual's failure to conform with gender stereotypes.
Bias Incident Policy
Speech Code Category: Policies on Bias and Hate Speech
Last updated: September 13, 2018
Bias Incident: Completed, attempted or threatened abusive or hostile acts against persons, property or an institution, where such acts manifest evidence that the target was intentionally selected on the basis of the target's actual or perceived age, class, color, disability, ethnic/regional/national origin group, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation, including any Hate Crime.
Bias Harassment: A Bias Incident that has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with a person's employment or education, or creating a hostile employment or educational environment, and has no legitimate relationship to the subject matter of a course or academic research. In evaluating whether such an environment has been created, the University will consider the alleged conduct from both a subjective and objective perspective. Specifically, it will evaluate the alleged conduct from the perspective of a reasonable person in the Alleged Target's position, considering all the circumstances.
Student Handbook: Student Code of Conduct- Harassment
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 13, 2018
Harassment, which includes engaging in conduct that, in the view of a reasonable person, has the purpose or effect of creating an intimidating or hostile educational, work, or living environment.
Student Handbook: Student Code of Conduct- Bullying and Cyberbullying
Speech Code Category: Bullying Policies
Last updated: September 13, 2018
Bullying and cyberbullying, which generally involves an imbalance of power, with an intent to intimidate, threaten and/or cause emotional and/or physical harm. Cyberbullying may encompass any form of technology.
Appropriate Use Policy
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: September 13, 2018
Do not use university resources to defame, harass, intimidate, threaten or discriminate against any other person(s).
Bias Incident Policy
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: September 13, 2018
As a campus community, we value and protect academic freedom and the open exchange of ideas.
Student Suspended from Colorado College for Social Media Posts Speaks Out
December 1, 2015
By Debbie Kelley at Colorado Springs Gazette Instead of sitting in class at Colorado College on Monday, Thaddeus Pryor was sitting at his family's home in southwest Colorado. He is no longer welcome on campus. Pryor, a junior, said he was "suspended for two years" on the Friday before the Thanksgiving break for a six-word post on the anonymous Yik Yak social media application. In response to someone else's post, #blackwomenmatter, Pryor wrote, "They matter, they're just not hot." "It could be considered as mean," Pryor said in a phone interview Monday. "But I did not mean it as hateful […]» Read More
Fire to Bucknell: Stop Hiding Transcript of Broadcast that Got Students Expelled
April 9, 2015
By Greg Piper at The College Fix Giving University of Oklahoma President David Boren a run for his money, Bucknell University President John Bravman summarily expelled three students for using racially offensive language on their campus radio show, as The College Fix reported. Bravman has suggested more students could get in trouble simply for being in the room, according to The Bucknellian. Students at the Pennsylvania school have voiced their outrage over the broadcast, with one telling the paper: "The lack of color on this campus has not only become overwhelming, it has become uncomfortable. It has become unsafe." Now the Foundation for Individual […]» Read More
Another School Uses a Flimsy Rationale to Expel Students for Their Speech
April 2, 2015
By Greg Piper at The College Fix News flash to campus administrators: You can give boneheads a fair hearing before meting out the most severe punishment against them without losing your moral authority. Bucknell University in Pennsylvania apparently thinks the University of Oklahoma is a good role model for due process: It expelled three students for horribly offensive speech on a campus radio show without even giving them a hearing. The Student Press Law Center reports: [University President John] Bravman sent an email to faculty on Monday about the expulsion, which included the students' comments. When one student said "niggers," […]» Read More
Don't speak: Report ranks 2012's 'Worst Colleges for Free Speech' in the country
April 2, 2012
Last week, the Foundation For Individual Rights in Education released its second-annual "Worst Colleges for Free Speech" list. The Philadelphia-based nonprofit named 12 U.S. colleges and universities that, in its view, continue to impose limits on student speech — even after intense pressure from FIRE and others. FIRE president Greg Lukianoff released the list on his Huffington Post blog. Topping the dozen was the University of Cincinnati, due to a pending civil rights lawsuit filed against them by Young Americans for Liberty, a Ron Paul-inspired activist group. In February, the officially sanctioned student organization was limited to a small "free […]» Read More
JOHN STOSSEL: Get Your Affirmative Action Cupcakes Here!
November 10, 2010
This week, I held a bake sale — a racist bake sale. I stood in midtown Manhattan shouting, "Cupcakes for sale." My price list read: Asians — $1.50 Whites — $1.00 Blacks/Latinos — 50 cents People stared. One yelled, "What is funny to you about people who are less privileged?" A black woman said, angrily, "It's very offensive, very demeaning!" One black man accused me of poisoning the cupcakes. I understand why people got angry. What I did was hurtful to some. My bake sale mimicked what some conservative college students did at Bucknell University. The students wanted to satirize […]» Read More
Bucknell should embrace free speech as Lehigh University does
October 20, 2009
It pains me to say it, but I owe Lehigh University an apology. You see, I went to Bucknell. We're rivals, you know. So as a proud member of the Bucknell family, I've considered it my job to make occasional fun of our nemesis in Bethlehem. When I was in school, I even owned a T-shirt that said: "Lehigh: Because not everyone can get into Bucknell." Sophomoric, I know. But then again, I was a sophomore. Now, I'm taking it back. I'm sorry, Lehigh. The reason is the First Amendment. The First Amendment protects our right to, among other things, […]» Read More
Bucknell and the 'Affirmative-Action Bakesale'
June 23, 2009
By Ashby Jones at The Wall Street Journal Law Blog Oh to be back in college. The parties, all that time to stretch out with the world's great books, those absolutely mind-blowing affirmative-action bakesales. Yes, we jest – at least on the last point. Truth is, we've never experienced an "affirmative-action bakesale," though we understand that they've popped up on college and university campuses periodically over the last several years. The bakesales, typically put together by conservative student groups, attempt to make a political point about the alleged unfairness of affirmative action by charging different prices for cupcakes and other baked […]» Read More
Bucknell bake sale sparks First Amendment debate
June 23, 2009
By Susan Snyder at Philadelphia Inquirer Bake sales – typically the sweetest and most innocent of displays – again have become a flashpoint for strident political debate and free speech arguments on college campuses, this time at Bucknell University. The "affirmative-action bake sale," at which the Bucknell University Conservatives Club charged different prices depending on a customer's race, was shut down by the administration in April. But it didn't end there. Bucknell president Brian C. Mitchell has received about 100 letters, e-mails, and phone calls protesting the administration's response. A Philadelphia-based national free-speech group this month blasted the school in a […]» Read More
Bucknell University requires permit to hand out Bibles
June 11, 2009
Giving away Bibles on the campus of Bucknell University is at your own peril, since the school requires a permit for such an activity, according to a new dispute that arose involving the school's Conservatives Club. The organization has attempted to make several political statements on campus, and has been shut down by officials with the university repeatedly, said a complaint letter assembled by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. The revelation of other permit demand for giving away Bibles came as part of an e-mail exchange over the dispute, in which school administrator Judy Mickanis told the leader […]» Read More
The Good and The Bad (Plus Some Ugly)
October 11, 2004
Today's college campus is a study in contrasts. Professors and administrators cling to their grotesque orthodoxies, but students seem to be getting saner by the year. What follows are five of the most outrageous campus incidents of the last academic year, then five of the most heartening acts of courage. The conservative-speaker double standard is almost an academic institution. At Bucknell University, administrators refused a student group's request to invite Republican congressman and Senate hopeful Pat Toomey to give a speech, arguing that his appearance would violate a school policy against electioneering on campus. Meanwhile, Bucknell paid presidential candidate Ralph […]» Read More
Colleges Pervert the Word 'Political'
July 29, 2004
In my first column for Townhall.com, I described Ralph Nader's recent commencement address at Bucknell University, an unabashedly political screed calling for universal health care, taxes on gambling, transforming the tax system, and the like. That was problematic, I argued, since Nader had signed an agreement that his speech would not be "political in tone or content." Afterward, I received an email from reader Jason Browning declaring that, "The tone of [my article] seemed obviously to be more concerned with the fact that Nader was voicing issues that are not popular amongst conservatives. Quibbling about whether or not the speech […]» Read More
Defending the right to offend
November 13, 2003» Read More
College Lite: less filling tastes great?
October 17, 2003» Read More
Fighting the Bucknell Thought Police
September 24, 2003» Read More
Free Speech on Campus?
September 15, 2003» Read More
University actions lack consistency and logic
March 21, 2003» Read More
Greg Laments an 'Unfortunate Renaissance in Campus Speech-Policing' on College Campuses
May 18, 2015
Freedom of speech on college campuses seems to ebb and flow—periods of rampant censorship are followed by movements for truly open discourse, which in turn are followed by attempts to silence "offensive" speech. Unfortunately, as FIRE President Greg Lukianoff writes for Minding the Campus today, colleges and universities are now home to a "renaissance in campus speech-policing." FIRE has seen too many instances of unlawful censorship in each of our 15 years of existence. But recent attempts at censorship reveal not just incorrect ideas about the scope of the First Amendment and misguided takes on free speech principles, but also […]» Read More
Colleges Rush to Violate Free Speech, Due Process in Response to Speech Controversies
April 9, 2015
PHILADELPHIA, April 9, 2015—In the wake of the University of Oklahoma's unconstitutional decision to summarily expel students involved in a racist fraternity chant, colleges and universities across the country are in a "race to the bottom" to violate the rights of students at the center of campus controversies involving speech deemed offensive, heedless of either context or the precedent set by censoring unpopular speech. Last week, the University of South Carolina (USC) suspended a student who used a racial slur when writing a list of reasons "why USC WiFi blows" on a white board. Shortly after a photo of the […]» Read More
The top 12 worst colleges for free speech
March 28, 2012
Who doesn't love a good awards show? The gowns, the acceptance speeches, the brutal infringements of civil liberties … the excitement just never ends. Once again, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE, where I work), has sorted through the hundreds of colleges and universities across the nation that severely restrict the First Amendment rights of their students, and is ready to present a "dirty dozen" of colleges that have attacked freedom of speech with such zeal that we cannot help but (dis)honor them. While it was difficult to choose from such a wide talent pool, certain schools took our breath […]» Read More
FIRE's 12 Worst Colleges for Free Speech in 2012
March 27, 2012
Here's today's press release: PHILADELPHIA, March 27, 2012—The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released its 2012 list of the 12 Worst Colleges for Free Speech in The Huffington Post today. Harvard is new to the list this year, joining Yale, Syracuse, and the University of Cincinnati at the top of the list. "These colleges and universities have deeply violated the principles that are supposed to animate higher education," said FIRE President Greg Lukianoff. "Sunlight is one of the best disinfectants, and the public needs to know which schools to watch out for." Although schools appear on the list in no particular […]» Read More
Something Fishy in Wyoming
March 19, 2012
CampusReform.org brings to us a disturbing story from Laramie County Community College in Wyoming, where a student says that administrators took some troubling actions to prevent his Campus Conservatives group from holding an "affirmative action bake sale" protest on campus: Once the university realized that my event would expose their racial preferencing policies, I was called into the dean's office of campus living and learning. I was told that what I was doing was border line racist and harassment. They said I would be better off not doing the bake sale at all. The dean even called the faculty advisor […]» Read More
A 'Bake Sale' Protest at Aquinas College (Bucknell, Are You Listening?)
February 2, 2012
A perennial topic of consternation on college campuses is the "affirmative action bake sale" protest that groups opposed to affirmative action hold with some regularity on college campuses. If you don't recall or haven't heard of these protests, they take the form of bake sales where people of different ethnicities are charged different suggested amounts for baked goods, with whites and Asians paying the most and African-Americans and Native Americans paying the least. The different prices are meant to signify the advantage in college admissions that opponents of affirmative action argue such policies give to certain ethnicities. Probably the most […]» Read More
'Stossel' Show Exposes Censorship at Bucknell, Yale, and More
November 18, 2011
The most recent episode of Stossel on Fox Business Network, titled "Free Speech … and Its Enemies," featured interviews with FIRE Board of Directors Chairman Harvey Silverglate and Director of Legal and Public Advocacy Will Creeley discussing free speech on campus. Harvey described the evolving attacks on free speech whereby people are using terms like "harassment" and "bullying" to censor and punish speech they simply don't like. Will explained why Yale University appeared on FIRE's Huffington Post list of the "12 Worst Colleges for Free Speech" (there are many reasons) and how seven schools made it to FIRE's Huffington Post list of the […]» Read More
After More Bake Sales Across the Nation, Bucknell Looks Dumber and Dumber
October 7, 2011
FIRE has been drawing attention to Bucknell University's shutdown of an "affirmative action bake sale" on its campus. Bucknell administrators have been claiming incorrectly that such a sale constitutes illegal discrimination and have stated that such controversial issues as affirmative action could not be discussed in the public areas of campus without Bucknell's permission. That was a couple of years ago, but Bucknell still refuses to acknowledge that such bake sales would be allowed on campus. Meanwhile, bake sales that criticize affirmative action policies, and other bake sales that criticize the gender wage gap, continue all over the country, making […]» Read More
FIRE in 'The Huffington Post' on America's 12 Worst Schools for Free Speech
January 27, 2011
Today, The Huffington Post published FIRE's list of America's 12 Worst Schools for Free Speech. An expansion of FIRE's Red Alert List of the "worst of the worst" schools for student and faculty rights, this "dirty dozen" slideshow includes the schools that come onto FIRE's radar screen again and again for their repeated and egregious violations of fundamental rights, as well as schools whose policies are so bad that they simply had to be included. For longtime Torch readers, the presence of most of these schools on our list won't come as a surprise. But we don't want to give it all away here. Is […]» Read More
An Open Letter to Bucknell University's New President
November 11, 2010
Today, FIRE sent an open letter, reprinted below, to Bucknell University President John Bravman, asking him to vindicate student rights on Bucknell's campus. FIRE is nonpartisan, and we take no position on the issues that Bucknell University students wanted to freely discuss on campus, including President Obama's economic stimulus initiatives and affirmative action. We do, however, passionately and aggressively defend students' rights to engage in free expression on campus—especially regarding contentious national issues, and especially at schools that, like Bucknell, explicitly promise free speech to their students. Now that Bucknell is ceremonially inaugurating its new university president this weekend, we […]» Read More
John Stossel Discusses Bucknell's 'Affirmative Action Bake Sale' (and His Own) with Fox News' Megyn Kelly; Watch FIRE on 'Stossel' Tonight
November 11, 2010
John Stossel's "affirmative action bake sale," which I highlighted here yesterday, is continuing to make waves in advance of FIRE's appearance on his program this evening. If you haven't seen it yet, check out Stossel's visit with Fox News host Megyn Kelly, where he previews tonight's Stossel program with FIRE President Greg Lukianoff and students from FIRE cases at Bucknell University (Kirby Thomas), Tarrant County College (Clayton Smith), and Valdosta State University (Hayden Barnes). The seven-minute segment with Megyn Kelly on Fox's America Live covers Bucknell University's repeated violations of its own free speech promises when it shut down the "affirmative […]» Read More
Finally, a Positive Free Speech Story from Bucknell
October 11, 2010
Bucknell University has been under a lot of heat from FIRE recently for refusing to amend the speech policies it used to shut down three of the Bucknell University Conservative Club's events last year. Between August 31 and October 8, we wrote President John Bravman a letter urging him to amend Bucknell's restrictive speech codes, designated Bucknell as a "Red Alert" school for the second consecutive year, wrote four blog posts (here, here, here, and here) and distributed a press release about Bucknell's free speech abuses, criticized its policies on a local Pennsylania radio station, and erected our first-ever billboard warning […]» Read More
The 'Bucknellian' Publicizes FIRE's Electronic Billboard
October 8, 2010
As Torch readers know, FIRE's electronic billboard criticizing Bucknell University's poor free speech record has been out on Route 15 in Pennsylvania since September 20. The ad was placed in reaction to three separate occasions on which the university shut down the expression of the Bucknell University Conservatives Club (BUCC), as well as Bucknell's policy preventing "affirmative action bake sale" protests and "gender wage gap bake sale" protests. Bucknell's student newspaper, The Bucknellian, caught wind of the public shame and blogged about it, noting our intention for the ad: Representatives of FIRE hope the new billboard advertisement will force the […]» Read More
FIRE'S Billboard Ad about Bucknell University on Route 15
September 23, 2010
As we mentioned in Monday's press release, FIRE purchased an electronic billboard ad criticizing Bucknell University's poor free speech record. Here it is, out in the wild, with a map to help you see it for yourself.» Read More
FIRE on WILK Radio This Morning
September 21, 2010
This morning, FIRE's Adam Kissel will be on WILK Newsradio, 103.1 FM in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area, to discuss FIRE's new Bucknell billboard. If you're not in the area, you can stream Adam's interview live here. Adam will be on the air at 10:05 a.m., right after the news. Tune in!» Read More
FIRE Places Billboard Criticizing Bucknell University's Free Speech Record
September 20, 2010
LEWISBURG, Pa., September 20, 2010—One of the main ways that universities maintain immoral and unconstitutional speech codes is to keep alumni and parents in the dark about rules that restrict student and faculty speech. That is why today the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has purchased a billboard advertisement to publicize Bucknell University's poor record on free speech. Bucknell, which used two policies to shut down the expression of the Bucknell University Conservatives Club (BUCC) on three separate occasions, is on FIRE's Red Alert list as one of the worst violators of free speech on campus. Two Bucknell […]» Read More
Red Alert at Bucknell University: Permission Needed to Promote a Cause
September 3, 2010
On Tuesday, FIRE announced our full-page advertisement in U.S. News & World Report's college rankings issue, alerting prospective students and their parents to consider avoiding the six schools on our Red Alert list. We warn people about Bucknell University, Michigan State University, Brandeis University, Colorado College, Johns Hopkins University, and Tufts University because they are the "worst of the worst" nationwide when it comes to meeting their free speech obligations. Bucknell is in the ad, which we place every year, for the first time this year—although it was added to the list almost a full year ago. We have given Bucknell plenty of chances to revise the policies it used to shut […]» Read More
Bucknell University Would Thwart AAUW 'Wage Gap' Bake Sales
July 1, 2010
AAUW (formerly known as the American Association of University Women) is a formidable nationwide entity with much to contribute to campus debate: For more than 128 years, AAUW members have examined and taken positions on the fundamental issues of the day-educational, social, economic, and political. Our commitment to our mission is reflected in all aspects of our work. AAUW boasts "more than 100,000 members and donors, 1,000 branches, and 500 college/university institution partners." In Pennsylvania alone, AAUW has partnerships with 29 colleges and universities—public and private, religious and secular. But AAUW has no official presence at Bucknell University, and I think it would get […]» Read More
Bucknell's General Counsel Abuses the Truth to an Exceptional Degree–Even for Him
June 10, 2010
Every year, FIRE places a full-color, full-page advertisement in the college rankings issue of U.S. News & World Report. The ad (here is 2009's) names the colleges and universities on FIRE's Red Alert list, our "worst of the worst" list of schools that have shown such severe and ongoing disregard for free speech that we warn students and faculty members to avoid them. This year, Bucknell University is scheduled to be included in the ad (along with Brandeis University, Colorado College, Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Tufts University). Bucknell deserves its ignominy because it (1) repeatedly shut down […]» Read More
In Which Bucknell's General Counsel Calls Me a Big Ole Liar
June 4, 2010
On January 18, 2010, I received a letter from Bucknell University General Counsel Wayne Bromfield that is undoubtedly the most personally insulting letter I have ever received in my time here at FIRE. We actually didn't respond at the time because when someone sends you a letter like this, you can be sure that he or she is no longer acting in good faith. But as we get closer to the time when we will highlight Bucknell as a Red Alert school in our annual full-page advertisement in U.S. News & World Report's college rankings issue—Red Alert schools are the "worst of the worst" […]» Read More
Incoming FIRE Intern Urges Reform of Bucknell University's Speech Codes
May 11, 2010
Bucknell University student Kirby Thomas, an incoming FIRE intern this summer, has penned an excellent critique of Bucknell's speech codes in the April 2010 edition of the student publication The Counterweight. In the article, Thomas warns of the dangers of these speech codes and the wrong messages they send to Bucknell students. In light of the free speech problems that Bucknell has seen in recent years, Thomas' article is a welcome addition to the campus discourse. Thomas begins her critique (PDF, pp. 18-19) by noting that Bucknell has a red-light rating in FIRE's Spotlight database: According to FIRE's website, red-light […]» Read More
Still Looking for a New Year's Resolution, Red Alert Schools?
January 14, 2010
Here's an easy New Year's resolution that Brandeis University, Bucknell University, Colorado College, Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Tufts University can make: get off of FIRE's Red Alert list of America's worst violators of campus liberty! This week, FIRE sent the presidents of each of the six Red Alert schools a letter reminding them of their schools' serious and ongoing violations of student and faculty rights, and just how easy it is for each of them to remedy their mistakes and reaffirm their commitment to freedom of expression. FIRE also included with each letter a copy of the […]» Read More
Bucknell Alumnus Prefers Rival Lehigh on Free Speech
October 20, 2009
Bucknell University alumnus Charles Mitchell has a strong piece in today's Morning Call (Allentown, PA) regarding the administration's wrongheaded censorship of political activity by the Bucknell University Conservatives Club (BUCC). Because of Bucknell's actions, the school is on FIRE's Red Alert list, which warns students to think twice before applying for admission to Bucknell if they value free speech. Mitchell, who also is a trustee of the Alliance for a Better Bucknell, concludes that despite a healthy rivalry between his alma mater and Lehigh University, Lehigh is the winner when it comes to free speech: [I read in] Lehigh's student […]» Read More
Rights in the News: Victory at Community College of Allegheny County Starts October off on High Note
October 9, 2009
As FIRE's 10th Anniversary Celebration inches closer, FIRE is proud to unveil a newly revamped Campus Freedom Network site. We're happy, too, to ring in October with a major victory for student rights at the Community College of Allegheny County. Torch readers, of course, were well aware of the travails of CCAC student Christine Brashier, whom CCAC attempted to intimidate into silence when she attempted to start a chapter of the national group Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. After months of administrative wrangling under the hot lights of FIRE's media campaign against CCAC, we were thrilled to announce this Monday that Brashier, with the help of FIRE and […]» Read More
Do Bucknell Administrators Believe in Free Speech or Not?
September 28, 2009
After mid-level administrators shut down or censored several of the activities of the Bucknell University Conservatives Club (BUCC), FIRE placed Bucknell on our Red Alert list as one of the "worst of the worst" for protecting liberty on campus. After months of administrative recalcitrance, however, a letter published in the August 27 issue of The Counterweight (a newspaper published by BUCC) offers hope for a quick resolution. Bucknell undergraduate Scott Teagarden, in his letter responding to a previous Counterweight article about the shutdown of BUCC's satirical "affirmative action bake sale," writes: The article reads, "If the Administration had its way, of course, […]» Read More
Rejected FIRE Ad at Bucknell Reported by Student Press Law Center
September 23, 2009
The Student Press Law Center (SPLC) has reported on The Bucknellian's rejection of FIRE's advertisement critical of Bucknell University and some of its administrators. The student newspaper rejected the ad, citing a worry that it "crosses a line that could lead to legality issues for the Bucknellian" because it "might be construed as libel." The ad named Associate Dean of Students Gerald Commerford as the primary malefactor against student rights at Bucknell. As FIRE has noted for several months, for instance in a May 21 letter to Bucknell's president regarding Commerford's actions, The Bucknellian previously reported on Dean Commerford's actions to shut down and later […]» Read More
FIRE blames newspaper's ad refusal on school's 'culture of fear'
September 23, 2009
by Anne Elliot Student Press Law Center A free speech group blames "a culture of fear" at Bucknell University for the student newspaper's refusal to run an ad criticizing the university. Bucknellian Editor-in-Chief Lenore Flower informed the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) in early September that the paper would not be running the organization's ad because of libel concerns. Adam Kissel, director of FIRE's Individual Rights Defense Program, dismissed the editor-in-chief's claim that the ad was potentially libelous, saying its claims were clearly the opinion of his organization. "If third parties cannot even criticize the university in […]» Read More
How Can Bucknell University Get Off FIRE's Red Alert List?
September 21, 2009
Having posed this question regarding Brandeis University, Colorado College, Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Tufts University—the other five schools on FIRE's Red Alert List—we today turn to the newest member of the list, Bucknell University. Today's press release—and its spot on the list—was earned by its continuous and unrepentant censorship of the activities of the Bucknell University Conservatives Club (BUCC). Bucknell's troubles started in March when Bucknell administrator Judith Mickanis prevented BUCC from distributing "Obama stimulus dollars," which bore an image of President Obama on the front and read "Obama's stimulus plan makes your money as worthless as monopoly […]» Read More
Red Alert: Bucknell University Hardens Policy Used to Shut Down Student Protests; Student Newspaper Rejects FIRE Ad
September 21, 2009
LEWISBURG, Pa., September 21, 2009—A culture of fear appears to be chilling expression at Bucknell University, where even the student newspaper fears a libel lawsuit from Associate Dean of Students Gerald W. Commerford if it were to print a critical advertisement from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). After Bucknell administrators misapplied and abused Bucknell's Sales and Solicitation and nondiscrimination policies last semester to shut down the Bucknell University Conservatives Club's (BUCC's) protests of affirmative action and President Obama's economic stimulus, the group turned to FIRE for help. Bucknell has expanded and hardened the language in its policies […]» Read More
Bucknell Revises 'Solicitation' Policy after Administrators Use It Repeatedly to Shut Down Student Speech
September 18, 2009
Bucknell University has quietly revised its "Sales and Solicitation" policy after administrators badly misinterpreted it last semester in order to shut down student speech at least twice. Last semester, members of the Bucknell University Conservatives Club (BUCC) stood at Bucknell's student center and passed out fake dollar bills with President Obama's face on the front and the sentence "Obama's stimulus plan makes your money as worthless as monopoly money" on the back. Bucknell administrator Judith L. Mickanis came along, however, and told the students that they were "soliciting" without prior approval. Although the Sales and Solicitation policy explicitly covered only […]» Read More
FIRE's rejected Bucknell ad
September 18, 2009
Bucknell's Oppression of Free Speech in Today's Issue of 'Human Events'
September 9, 2009
When will Bucknell University realize that trying to suppress free speech is one of the best ways to help the speakers get their message out? Human Events is the latest publication to shine the light of shame on Bucknell's frequent actions to shut down the expression of the Bucknell University Conservatives Club (BUCC). The article, coauthored by FIRE Program Officer Peter Bonilla and BUCC President Travis Eaione, describes how Bucknell administrators flouted the university's commitment to free speech and bent its policies out of shape in order to shut down BUCC's satirical "affirmative action bake sale" and BUCC's distribution of […]» Read More
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'U.S. News' Readers: FIRE's Red Alert List Exposes the Worst Violators of Campus Rights
August 25, 2009
The Story Behind FIRE's U.S. News & World Report Ad… Why does FIRE's ad in U.S. News & World Report show a book padlocked shut? One of FIRE's most shocking cases was that of Keith John Sampson, a student-employee at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) who was found guilty of racial harassment for merely reading the book Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan during his work breaks. Thanks to FIRE's involvement and extensive media coverage, the finding against Sampson was overturned and his school record was cleared. Such stories of censorship are […]» Read More
FIRE's Biggest Ad Campaign Ever Hits 'U.S. News'
August 25, 2009
For the second year in a row, FIRE has run a full-page advertisement in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges issue, released today, highlighting the colleges and universities that have earned FIRE's Red Alert distinction for being the "worst of the worst" when it comes to liberty on campus. Brandeis University, Colorado College, Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Tufts University are listed in the print ad, while Bucknell University, a late addition to the list, will be prominently featured in Facebook ads and in the school's own newspaper. But that's not all—in the coming weeks, FIRE will also run ads in U.S. News' bestselling guidebook, every Red Alert school's newspaper, and the papers of the top 25 largest and most prestigious universities in the nation, […]» Read More
Bucknell University Joins Worst Offenders Against Liberty on FIRE's Red Alert List
August 25, 2009
Thanks to its continuous distortions and abuses of its own policies on free expression to suppress political speech, Bucknell University has earned the dubious honor of being placed on FIRE's Red Alert list. Institutions on the Red Alert list are unrepentant offenders against basic rights that are guaranteed either by the U.S. Constitution or the schools themselves, and they have policies and/or practices that demonstrate a serious and ongoing threat to current and future students. They are the "worst of the worst" when it comes to protecting liberty on campus. Though repeated letters from FIRE, backed up with documentary evidence, […]» Read More
FIRE Releases Video about Bucknell Case
August 12, 2009
Check out FIRE's newest video, which comes straight from one of the students embroiled in the ongoing fight for free speech at Bucknell University. Watch as Bucknell University Conservatives Club President Travis Eaione recounts how the Bucknell administration censored his student group on three separate occasions as the group tried to peacefully protest affirmative action policies and President Obama's stimulus plan. You'll be shocked at how Bucknell is blatantly betraying the ideal of free speech using phony and patently false excuses. Help FIRE restore free speech and open debate to Bucknell: Listen to Travis' story, demand that Bucknell's president restore […]» Read More
Rights in the News: Victories at UCSB and Wright State as Pressure on Bucknell Intensifies
June 26, 2009
FIRE's victories for religious liberty and academic freedom at Wright State University and the University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) were in the news this week, while Bucknell University's continuing refusal to acknowledge its wrongful and discriminatory treatment of the Bucknell University Conservatives Club has only intensified the media spotlight it is trying to avoid. As Torch followers read this week, The Wall Street Journal's law blog and The Philadelphia Inquirer both ran in-depth stories on Bucknell's suppression of the political activities of the BUCC. Susan Snyder's article for the Inquirer, since its publication on Tuesday, has been one of the […]» Read More
Bucknell University Lies Again
June 25, 2009
Maybe someone is feeding false information to Bucknell University General Counsel Wayne A. Bromfield, because his latest response to Bucknell's free speech meltdown repeats the lies we already have heard from him and Bucknell. The truth is, Bucknell shut down a student group's protests against President Obama's stimulus plan and against affirmative action policies, using inapplicable university policies as pretexts. The distribution of "Obama stimulus dollars" by the Bucknell University Conservatives Club (BUCC) was shut down under an inapplicable solicitation policy, and the administrator who shut it down gleefully said that the students were "busted." (Here's the evidence.) Later, the […]» Read More
Bucknell President Resigns Effective June 2010
June 24, 2009
Maybe it's related, maybe not. But we know that just one day after the national media picked up Bucknell University's pattern of mistreatment of the Bucknell University Conservatives Club, Bucknell President Brian Mitchell announced his resignation. Bucknell had shut down the group's protests against President Obama's stimulus plan and against affirmative action policies, using inapplicable university policies as pretexts. After FIRE publicized the case, Bucknell responded with false and misleading information about what actually happened, contradicting the audio, video, and other documentary evidence of the case. Yesterday, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Associated Press, and Wall Street Journal Law Blog reported on […]» Read More
AP and 'Wall Street Journal' Pick Up on Bucknell's Violation of Conservative Students' Rights
June 23, 2009
The Associated Press has picked up Susan Snyder's excellent Philadelphia Inquirer reporting on Bucknell University's pattern of shutting down events run by the Bucknell University Conservatives Club (BUCC). As FIRE's press release points out, Bucknell not only shut down BUCC's satirical affirmative action bake sale but also refused to let BUCC hold any such sale in the future, falsely citing Bucknell's nondiscrimination policy when administrators had to come up with some kind of pretext. Earlier, Bucknell had shut down BUCC's distribution of "Obama stimulus dollars" in protest of President Obama's stimulus plan, in that instance falsely citing the university's solicitation […]» Read More
'Philadelphia Inquirer' on Bucknell Bake Sale Fiasco
June 23, 2009
The top story in the local section of today's Philadelphia Inquirer print edition explores Bucknell University's decision to bar a conservative student group from hosting an affirmative action bake sale on campus. FIRE first wrote to Bucknell on May 21 and issued a press release condemning the school's actions on June 11 after having received no response from the school. As today's Inquirer story explains, Bucknell's hostility to core political speech involves more than just the shutting down of the bake sale event: In March, the club complained that the administration shut down another of its activities – passing out […]» Read More
Bucknell Alumni on Bucknell
June 17, 2009
The word is getting out to Bucknell University alumni that their alma mater has taken a strong stand against free expression on campus—and so far, they don't seem too pleased. Alumni group The Alliance for a Better Bucknell issued a statement calling on Bucknell President Brian Mitchell, "in the strongest possible terms, to immediately condemn the recent censorship and proclaim publicly that no one will ever be treated this way again at Bucknell for expressing social or political views." Indoctrinate U filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney, another Bucknell alumnus, has also condemned Bucknell for its vendetta against the Bucknell University Conservatives […]» Read More
Bucknell to Student Conservatives, Liberty: Drop Dead
June 11, 2009
Wow, that was fast! Today's press release about Bucknell's lamentable ongoing crusade to squelch the expression of the students of the Bucknell University Conservatives Club (BUCC) has shaken a formal response loose in record time—probably less than two hours. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the university did even two minutes' worth of thinking about the evidence and our arguments, despite the fact that it has been sitting on FIRE's letter since May 21. In fact, I can't even figure out how Bucknell General Counsel Wayne A. Bromfield could sit down, read our letter, and produce a presumably straight-faced response that […]» Read More
Bucknell University Slams Door on Bibles, Student Satires of Obama Stimulus Plan, Affirmative Action
June 11, 2009
It still amazes me that university administrators come up with such flimsy excuses—sometimes even making up rules out of nowhere, on the spot—for interfering with students' freedom of speech on campus. I reported in April that Bucknell University had shut down a satirical "affirmative action bake sale" on a pretext. On further investigation, FIRE found a pattern of violations of the speech rights that Bucknell's own policy promises to students. Indeed, as today's press release details, student rights are under serious assault at Bucknell, where not only the bake sale but also criticism of President Obama's stimulus plan have repeatedly […]» Read More
Bucknell University Slams Door on Student Satires of Obama Stimulus Plan, Affirmative Action
June 11, 2009
LEWISBURG, Pa., June 11, 2009—Student rights are under assault at Bucknell University, where a conservative student group's protests against affirmative action policies and President Obama's stimulus plan have repeatedly been shut down or forbidden by administrators using flimsy or patently false excuses. After the Bucknell University Conservatives Club (BUCC) had three events censored in two months, the students turned to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help. "Bucknell promises free speech, but it delivers selective censorship," said FIRE President Greg Lukianoff. "Bucknell administrators have gone out of their way to abuse and even invent policies in attempts […]» Read More
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Video: Bucknell Shuts Down Affirmative Action Bake Sale
April 27, 2009
Bucknell University claims to be committed to the "free and open exchange of ideas." Apparently this is false advertising—far from the truth. In violation of students' rights, Bucknell University has shut down an affirmative action bake sale. And the students got it on video. We have added it to our list of favorites. On the video, an administrator shows up at the event and demands that it be shut down. Apparently, the bake sale prices were not exactly the same as those the group originally put on its approval forms (the group actually charged less than it said it would), […]» Read More
BUCC donut sale rejected by administration
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Your 'Guide' to Fighting Thought Reform on Campus
November 11, 2005
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us. —West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) These words recognize that the freedom of conscience is an inviolable right provided to Americans by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Tragically, however, many colleges […]» Read More
Hunting Witches and Terrorists
September 29, 2005
As we have pointed out before, American University President Benjamin Ladner is currently suspended and under investigation for possible misuse of AU funds. In a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required), Ladner responded to the controversy with a striking statement: In a lengthy interview with The Chronicle, Mr. Ladner said he wants to return to his post. "I felt mugged," he said of the recent furor over his expenses. "Clearly it was a witch hunt. I now know that." The reason that comment was so striking to me is that Ladner ought to know a witch […]» Read More
File Under 'See No Evil'
August 3, 2005
Terry Caesar penned a column Monday on Inside Higher Ed lamenting the chilling effect speech codes have on professorial humor. Citing one of FIRE's favorite examples, the former speech code at the University of Connecticut, he wrote: To relate an official response to some example of a joke, or even an unintended joke, on American campuses today is itself to appear to be telling a joke. Yet everybody knows speech codes that ban "inappropriately directed laughter" (say) are no joke. It's not clear to me if a professor can be held accountable for a student who spontaneously tells a joke […]» Read More


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LOS ANGELES — G.I. Joe won't be going into action on the big-screen this summer, after all.
The Hollywood Reporter says Paramount Pictures yanked its sequel "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" from its June 29 release date and rescheduled the movie for March 29 next year.
While it's not uncommon for studios to shuffle opening dates, it is rare for such a big-budget movie to get the bump so close to its release.
Paramount executives told the Reporter the move was made so the studio would have time to convert "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" into a digital 3-D version.
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Even as one final deadline required by the Federal Aviation Administration to submit a final volume approaches to be considered a test and research site for unmanned aircraft systems, Cal UAS Portal's project manager is keeping busy.
Even as one final deadline required by the Federal Aviation Administration to submit a final volume approaches to be considered a test and research site for unmanned aircraft systems, Cal UAS Portal's project manager is keeping busy.
Eileen Shibley, the Inyokern-based team's leader, is finding doors open to her for a variety of meetings to explain the versatility of unmanned systems in various civilian and private industries and advocate why Inyokern and the Mojave Desert are right choice to be considered a test site.
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Her team has already sent off Volume 3 of the proposal required for the FAA's request for proposal, on its April 11 deadline and was working on Volume 7 for its May 6 deadline.
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Modern Ecologie needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 118 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
A new yoga clothing company is looking for beautiful henna art to be placed on a yellow (warm vibrant mustard yellow), v-neck, cross-back yoga tank top.
Thanks to all designers. The submissions are fantastic. And, because they are so great, I'll be choosing 3 designs from this contest.
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The design should inspire beauty, peace and union. It should be graceful and not too loud. I prefer 2 colors max.
Now that I'm choosing 3 designs: 2 designs will go on the yellow background mentioned above and 1 design will go on a blue top.
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In March 2009, the members of St. Rose of Lima Church in East Haven, Connecticut submitted an official racial-profiling complaint to the U.S. Department of Justice, alleging that the local law enforcement agency, the East Haven Police Department (EHPD), had been engaging in a pattern of race-based violence against Latinos in and around East Haven. After considering the complaint, the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday, December 3rd, that they were launching a federal investigation based on the allegations of harassment against the EHPD.
Angel Fernandez, a parish leader from Fair Haven's St. Rose of Lima Church, made the announcement at a vigil held in East Haven on Wednesday, and was met with a thunderous burst of applause from the crowd that was assembled. The audience included New Haven's Ecuadorian Consulate, parishioners from St. Rose, and Father James Manship, a priest that was arrested in February while trying to videotape an incident of racial harassment taking place in a store in East Haven.
While the complaint traces stories of racial-profiling by the East Haven police beginning in June 2008, the EHPD's discrimination against Latinos is part of a much longer history of police abuse of racial minorities in East Haven. The Latino community in this otherwise predominantly white area now accounts for about 6 percent of the population, and while Latino-owned businesses and shops line the town's streets, they have consistently been faced with suspicion and hostility from local law enforcement. From the complaint:
Since June 2008, the EHPD has targeted the Latino community in improper stops, searches and seizures, false arrests, and the use of excessive force in ordinary encounters with Latino residents and motorists. Latinos are pulled over without reasonable suspicion while driving, arrested without probable cause and in some cases, severely beaten by law enforcement officials. As a consequence, Latinos in East Haven now live in daily fear of harassment and retaliation by East Haven police officers.
The complaint documents more than twenty detailed accounts of race-based violence and harassment suffered by shopkeepers and residents of East Haven and its neighboring towns, and classifies the accounts into the following broad categories: 'Race-Based Violence and Excessive Force,' 'Harassment and Intimidation,' 'The Department's Tacit Approval,' and 'Police Retaliation and Lack of Redress.' In his speech announcing the investigation last Wednesday, Fernandez recounted some of the personal stories that lie at the center of the complaint and called it "a victory for the brave men and women who risked retaliation to tell their stories of abuse to the public for the first time."
One of the accounts tells of four men, Guillermo, Juan, Jorge and Juan, who were driving to a restaurant and were followed and stopped by Officer Dennis Spaulding. Without telling them why they were being stopped, the officer asked to see the license of two of the men, even though one of them, Juan, was a passenger and not the driver. On finding that Juan's was not a Connecticut license, the officer threw it on the ground, and when Juan tried to pick it up, he was arrested. When Jorge inquired as to why his friend was being arrested, he, too, was arrested. By this point, five other squad cars had gathered and were all witnessing this. In a few minutes, all four men had been arrested, frisked, and put in different cars. During the course of the evening, they were punched, pepper-sprayed, and subject to racial epithets and verbal abuse as they spent the night in the police station.
The complaint also contains numerous accounts of race-based traffic stops, harassment and abuse by the police, often in the police station and in full view of senior police officers. A number of the Latino store owners told of how the police would set up check-points directly outside their stores and stop Latino customers as they were exiting the parking-lot, asking them for their license and registration. One shop owner, Lazaro, often came to work and found the police and a tow truck in his parking lot. When he asked them to leave, the officer threatened to come every day. Lazaro asked him, "What, you don't like Hispanics?" and the officer replied, "No, I don't." After this incident, the police began to come into Lazaro's store and harass the customers for their ID and car papers. Lazaro has seen a significant drop in customers and has made it difficult for him to pay his rent and monthly bills.
Police officers have repeatedly denied allegations of racial profiling, and have being caught lying about incidents since members of the community took to filming confrontations taking place in stores and checkpoints. Tafari Lumumba, a Yale student attorney who helped draft the complaint gave an idea of the possible outcomes of the investigation by the Department of Justice. Siting a similar probe of the LAPD, he said that a possible outcome could be a consent decree covering the East Haven police department, that would require the department to track the race of people being arrested and stopped for traffic violations. Further requirements could include additional training for the officers and the implementation of a new citizen complaint system.
On the note of race-based violence, a town hall meeting will be held in Miami, Florida on December 10th, Human Rights Day, to talk about racial profiling. Organized by the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, 'Racial Profiling: Face the Truth' will be a meeting of national and local activists and people who want to share their personal stories of racial profiling. Panelists include Chandra Bhatnagar, Marleine Bastien, Subhash Kateel, Muhammed Malik and Jumana Musa. For more information, click here.
Photo courtesy of www.newhavenindependent.org