Posters Promoting 'Straight Pride' Week Appear On Ohio Campus
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) Posters promoting a "straight pride" week at a northeast Ohio university have been removed after student leaders said the message went beyond free speech.
Youngstown State University student government leaders tell WKBN-TV they decided to remove the posters after consulting with university officials.
The posters were hung around campus earlier this week. They included profanity and promoted the event as a time to not highlight sexual orientation or differences among students. They encouraged students to "go about your day without telling everyone about how 'different' you are."
A university spokesman tells WFMJ-TV that the posters counter the school's mission of diversity. Officials are investigating possible student code violations. A statement from the student government said while it respects free speech rights, the posters missed the point of activism.
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candelista
(1,986 posts)Maybe NE Ohio University has stricter guidelines, based on their property rights.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,718 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)after White Pride and MRA stuff.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)'Cause they're not sure!
closeupready
(29,503 posts)"The Closeted Gay - Openly Straight Students Alliance".
Botany
(70,635 posts)Some people need to find others to "hate on" because that gives them a
sense of being. As an old white straight guy I found that putting down my
young and dumb dislike for gays and going along w/gay bashing many years
ago very liberating. If you want to see "straight pride" on and around a college
campus you can see all the straight couples you want walking around campus,
at the bars, and in the dorms.
* Former OSU Football Coach Jim Tressel
What would the reaction be to an openly gay Buckeye player, he was asked.
One, we are a family. If you havent learned from your family at home that people have differences and those strengthen the whole, then you are hopefully going to learn it as part of the Ohio State football family, Tressel wrote.
Two, every part of our team is important and every role has value no job is too small and no person is irrelevant thats a great lesson that transcends into society. When I think of the diversity weve had on our team the past few years, it goes way beyond just a racial, sexual or ethnic mix. Weve had players who had different religions, players who came from different economic backgrounds, players who are parents, who are spouses, who are caring for ailing parents, who are wheelchair bound, who are battling cancer, and on and on.
Whatever a young man feels called to express, I hope we will help him do it in a supportive environment. Everybody is important, and maturity is learning to find and appreciate those differences in others.
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-tressel030810
closeupready
(29,503 posts)behind this, as we've seen in similar drives in the past.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)In the U.S. at least, each year is already comprised of 52 consecutive Straight Pride weeks. I guess this half-wit want an official 53rd week added.
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)That the posters, while dickish, were not hate speech as I understand the term. (I haven't found a copy of the poster I can actually read, so it's hard to tell whether the language is threatening or not, but what I can reads seems to be within the bounds.)
Perhaps an overreaction from the student government that could as easily have issued a statement opposing the poster's viewpoint.