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GOPUSA News
November 11, 2002

Patrick Timmons, a reporter at The Daily Texan, the official student newspaper at the University of Texas, recently fired off a widely circulated open letter resigning his position, concluding, "The Texan is not a friendly environment for somebody like me, an outspoken queer journalist, to work in. This situation demands my immediate resignation."

Timmons lengthy diatribe blasted his editors for refusing to put a story on the Gay Pride celebration on the front page. He also berated them for failing to assign stories on many other gay themes. For example, he said the paper should have covered the fact that, "The Sodomy Statute contributes to high sexual disease infections in state prisons: wardens won't pass out condoms or dental dams. More than 140,000 Texas inmates are currently at risk from ignorance and the effects of this law."

No, Patrick, only those who have gay sex are at risk, and there is no issue of discrimination here, since heterosexual people cannot very well have sex in Texas prisons, which are all segregated based on gender. In light of your level of thinking, clearly the Texan is much the better for your resignation.

CORNELL MAY DISPENSE VIBRATORS TO STUDENTS

The Cornell Daily Sun reported on October 31 that the Cornell University Health Services is considering whether to provide "auto stimulation devices for women." "This comes out of many conversations between myself and people in the LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender] community about how to improve our services and make them more affirming of women's sexuality," said Somjen Frazer, a "researcher" for Cornell's Women's Health Initiative.

BRITISH ACADEMIC PUBLISHER BOYCOTTS ISRAEL

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in early November that St. Jerome Publishing, in Britain, has refused to sell a book it publishes to an Israeli university, as part of the company's boycott of Israeli academic institutions. St. Jerome, an academic publisher specializing in translations studies, is owned by Mona Baker, a member of the faculty of the University of Manchester. In June, Ms. Baker dismissed two Israeli scholars from the boards of academic journals published by St. Jerome. (Chronicle of Higher Education, July 5.)

Mina Teicher, vice president for research at Bar-Ilan University, said that the university had ordered a copy of an introductory translation-studies book called The Map, by Jenny Williams and Andrew Chestman. In response, the university received a letter from St. Jerome stating that, because of the actions of the Israeli government, the publisher could not supply the book to an Israeli institution.

A spokesman for St. Jerome confirmed that the press was not selling books to Israeli institutions, citing the academic boycott declared by some critics of Israel's military actions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. No word yet as to whether the publisher will also boycott Palestinian schools in which textbooks containing blood libel against Jews are the rule rather than the exception.

CHOMSKY HATE AMERICA FIRST TOUR HITS COLLEGE CAMPUSES

Leftist icon and MIT Professor Noam Chomsky has been touring America's college campuses, delivering anti-American diatribes at recent stops such as the University of Pennsylvania and University of Texas. At Penn, Chomsky labeled the United States a terrorist state. According to Chomsky, "legally speaking, there's a very solid case for impeaching every American president since the Second World War. They've all been either outright war criminals or involved in serious war crimes."

Following 9/11, Chomsky groused, "The terrorist attacks were major atrocities. In scale they may not reach the level of many others, for example, Clinton's bombing of the Sudan with no credible pretext, destroying half its pharmaceutical supplies and killing unknown numbers of people (no one knows, because the US blocked an inquiry at the UN and no one cares to pursue it)."

Responding to Chomsky's statement, David Horowitz wrote, "In point of fact -- and just for the record -- however ill-conceived Bill Clinton's decision to launch a missile into the Sudan, it was not remotely comparable to the World Trade Center massacre. It was, in its very design, precisely the opposite -- a defensive response that attempted to minimize casualties. Clinton's missile was launched in reaction to the blowing up of two of our African embassies, the murder of hundreds of innocent people and the injury to thousands, mostly African civilians. It was designed with every precaution possible to prevent the loss of innocent life. The missile was fired at night, so that no one would be in the building when it was hit. The target was selected because the best information available indicated it was not a pharmaceutical factory, but a factory producing biological weapons. Chomsky's use of this incident to diminish the monstrosity of the terrorist attack is a typical Chomsky maneuver, an accurate measure of his instinctive mendacity, and an index of the anti-American dementia, which infuses everything he writes and says."

Chomsky is now leading the insidious anti-Semitic effort to petition American universities to divest from all investments in companies that do business in Israel. The full text of David Horowitz's articles demonstrating the bankruptcy of Chomsky's ideas can be found at:

The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky - Part 1
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1020
The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky - Part 2
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1018

LEFT-WING RANTS DOMINATE CAMPUS DAILIES

An editorial entitled "God Blessed America?" in the University of Pittsburgh student newspaper states, in part, "God, if there is a God, did bless America. Quite generously. But then the Americans came, spit in God's face, and systematically destroyed every one of those blessings over the course of 400 long, bloody years." The entire diatribe can be found at http://www.pittnews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/09/24/3d8fd0a700f95. It is not recommended to have a large meal before reading.

Another recent gem from the college papers is the puerile "George Bush, Evil Genius" column from the student newspaper at Boise State University. The author bloviates, "Oh Bush! How do you come up with your great ideas and deft strategies? Does Laura help you with the drawing of idea bubbles or is your grand mind inundated with epiphanies while you play golf or eat barbeque [sic] at your home on the ranch?" The nonsense continues at http://www.arbiteronline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/09/19/3d892b4f5449.

DEM STATE REP: WOMEN BETTER LEADERS THAN MEN

State Rep. Dawnna Dukes (D-Austin) recently spoke to students at the University of Texas at Austin in the female Kinsolving Dormitory. Dukes declared, "I think that women are far better leaders than men because when women are in positions of leadership, they change the way we think about what we are."

Can you imagine if a male elected official made the opposite remark? He would be forced to resign in a heartbeat. Ironically, the article in The Daily Texan the following day also mentioned that Dukes denounced "gender stereotypes," "offhand comments," and "harmless jokes" that might be offensive to women. While the Texan mentioned her own insensitive remark in passing toward the end of the article, the headline was "State representative touts gender equality."

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Compiled by Marc Levin, Associate Editor of The Austin Review (www.austinreview.com). If you have a campus item for this column, please email it to oncampus@gopusa.com.