RA DePaul Punishes Pro-Life Student For Listing Vandals

[Albert Hidel]

The headline on this isn't exactly correct. He didn't "expose" the vandals, for their names already had been released by the school. They admitted they had vandalized a pro-life display after they were identified by security cameras. The student posted their names on the YAF website.

Oddly enough, DePaul is at least nominally a Catholic school, so you really wonder who is running the asylum. Has libtard orthodoxy replaced Catholic doctrine? This schmuck dean of students Munin guy looks like a pure leftist douchebag, with all his self promotion and "social justice" claptrap.

Pro-Life Student Sanctioned at DePaul University for Exposing Vandals


by Dr. Susan Berry 2 Mar 2013

The head of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) at [regionally accredited] DePaul University is facing expulsion after he released the names of vandals who destroyed a pro-life flag display.

Kristopher Del Campo, the chairman of the conservative student organization, has been sanctioned by the university after having being charged for violating DePaul’s Code of Student Responsibility and found guilty on two counts: Disorderly, Violent, Intimidating, or Dangerous Behavior to Self or Others, and Judicial Process Compliance.

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in January, Del Campo, a 23-year old psychology major, and other students were granted permission from the university to build a pro-life display that featured 500 flags. However, vandals destroyed the display and stuffed some of the flags into trash cans.

A university investigation released the names of 13 students who admitted to the vandalism following identification by security cameras. Del Campo then listed the names of the vandals on the YAF website, an action that led to the posting of negative comments directed at the vandals. As a result, the university held Del Campo responsible for the comments, claiming he placed these students “at substantial risk of physical harm.”

“Instead of supporting a student whose free speech rights were violated, DePaul University bullied Kristopher Del Campo for daring to expose the 13 vandals,” said Ron Robinson, YAF’s Foundation President. “They put him through a Soviet-style show trial.”

According to YAF, Del Campo was not permitted counsel at the university tribunal that convicted him.

Other free speech groups have lent support to Del Campo.

“The 13 DePaul students named in the public safety report admitted not only to vandalizing YAF’s display but also planning to do so,” wrote Pete Bonilla, of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, in a letter to DePaul’s president. “Students who purposefully vandalize the works of other students should not expect to be shielded from the public consequences of their actions.”

Del Campo, who is about to graduate, has been told by the DePaul Dean of Students that he could be expelled.

“It is unfortunate that this incident is part of your educational career,” wrote Dean Art Murin [sic, Munin]. “Any further infractions of the Code of Student Responsibility during your probationary period may result in additional disciplinary action including removal from the university.”

Del Campo has said that, even though he was warned by [Munin] not to fight the university, he plans to do so.

“This is wrong,” Del Campo told Fox News. “This university has a problem with free speech rights and this time they met a challenger who is not backing down.”

BTW, here's the complete asshole list, and a big fuck you to anyone who doesn't like it:

1. Hannah Barner

2. Raquel Castellanos

3. Alexandra Chapman

4. Juan Chavez

5. Emma Creech

6. Kristin Lansdown

7. Carolyne Luna

8. Amelia Menton

9. Brianna Montague

10. Karla Muldowney

11. Alayne Murphy

12. Amanda Stefanski

13. Matthew Walsh
http://www.yaf.org/names_of_vandals_released.aspx

[Armando Ramos]

12. Amanda Stefanski

I see Stefanski is a Crotch Studies major and admitted lesbian who likes to blog about her sexual exploits. That sounds familiar. Is she related to Gollin somehow?

Not sure why a bunch of rug munchers care about abortion, since their activities aren't likely to render them eligible. Too bad their parents didn't believe in abortion.

[ham]

12. Amanda Stefanski

I see Stefanski is a Crotch Studies major and admitted lesbian who likes to blog about her sexual exploits. That sounds familiar. Is she related to Gollin somehow?

Not sure why a bunch of rug munchers care about abortion, since their activities aren't likely to render them eligible. Too bad their parents didn't believe in abortion.

Pardon...?

[Geoff Vankirk]

Catholic universities tend to be a strange amalgamation of liberal and conservative views that share one common theme (other than the fact that the views are the official teachings of the Church) - the administration runs the university and is the final authority in settling any disputes, almost by extension some type of papal infallibility..

Around 20 years ago, St. Johns University in New York changed their sports team nickname from the Redmen to the Red Storm. The politically correct University president, a Catholic priest named Father Donald Harrington, decided HE was going to change it regardless of what the students, alumni and fans thought. After all, Fr. Harrington knew better and he always did the right thing regardless of criticism. Incidentally, this was way before the NCAA was strong-arming schools to go in this direction so Harrington imposed a solution where there hadn't been a problem.

Since then their basketball program has been in the dumps and the Catholic Church itself has been racked by scandal after scandal. Yet none of the Cardinals' or bishops'statements has been as forceful or as decisive as Fr. Harrington's bold and courageous decision to operate forthrightly way back when.

Father Harrington link