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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNeil Gorsuch Defended Columbias So-Called Date-Rape Frat
BRANDY ZADROZNY at the Daily Beasthttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/19/neil-gorsuch-defended-columbia-s-so-called-date-rape-frat.html
"SNIP............
President Trumps first Supreme Court nominee, Neil M. Gorsuch, reveled in his identity as an outsider at Columbia University. Through prolific college writingswhich will undoubtedly be referred to during this weeks Senate confirmation hearingsthe undergraduate became the voice of a swelling 80s conservative movement, often sounding a lone moderate note for open debate and individualism as he was pitted against what he perceived as a tide of superficial campus progressives.
He also really liked his frat.
Following President Trumps January announcement nominating Gorsuch, the national press revived the 49-year-olds college essays and editorials in the interest of exploring the past adventures and misadventures of the man who would be Antonin Scalias successor. In at least 19 columns published in the Daily Spectator, Columbias student-run newspaper, and The Federalist Paper, a conservative broadsheet that Gorsuch co-founded, the future federal appellate judge wrote sneering takedowns of liberal students on campus and their causes. He also argued for what he saw as unpopular beliefs at the time, including university investments in apartheid South Africa, on-campus military recruitment, a pro-Reagan stance in the Iran-Contra affair, and consistently, for Columbias all-male fraternities.
Gorsuchs own fraternity, Phi Gamma Deltaknown more commonly as FIJIwelcomed him as a freshman in the spring of 1986 and he remained an active member until his early graduation in 1988. According to school newspaper reports and interviews with former Columbia students, FIJIs reputation was unrivaled among Columbias 12 other fraternities at the timedefined by accusations of hard-partying, racism, sexism, and date rape. FIJI, as one former member claimed, was known as a house where the spiked punch flowed, and party tents known as smut huts were erected for one clear purpose.
The Phi Gamma Delta page in Columbias 1988 yearbook is a testament to the fact that FIJIs party-hearty reputation wasnt solely the product of rumors from know-nothing outsiders. Its difficult to tell whether Gorsuch is among the 30 mostly white teens smiling from the fraternitys group photo (they really do all look alike), but he is listed in the caption as one of its 42 members.
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Neil Gorsuch Defended Columbias So-Called Date-Rape Frat (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2017
OP
SC has no meaning anymore. When one party can deny the majority of the American people
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
#1
it is true that the law no longer matters; power is the only thing that matters. nt
TheFrenchRazor
Mar 2017
#2
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)1. SC has no meaning anymore. When one party can deny the majority of the American people
then it has no meaning.
Laws dont really either, considering the trump family and administration break them all the time.
TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)2. it is true that the law no longer matters; power is the only thing that matters. nt