Muda69

That is a bald-face lie and you know it. Just one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steubenville_High_School_rape_case Oh, here is another: https://deadspin.com/indiana-high-school-basketball-players-indicted-for-haz-5542160

Sure, a private entity can effectively discriminate. It's called freedom of association. But where have I ever stated that an individual doesn't have the right to try and change and institution through there words and actions? That appears to be what Mr. Sample was attempting at IWU, was it not?

Wow, Irishman. Can't believe you stooped so low as to go there. It appears you are saying that that tragedy couldn't possibly happen at a traditional government school like Carmel, Penn, or New Haven, right?

Thankful for More Educational Freedom (Hopefully) On Its Way: https://www.cato.org/blog/thankful-more-educational-freedom-hopefully-its-way

On Thanksgiving, Be Grateful for Property Rights: https://reason.com/2019/11/27/on-thanksgiving-be-grateful-for-property-rights/ As am I.

Correct. However should he not be able to voice his opinions and attempt to change the snowflake culture that appears to run rampant at IWU?

Why is that automatically the "adult thing", Dante?

https://reason.com/2019/11/26/indiana-wesleyan-micah-sample-cultural-appropriation/ Rude? Perhaps. Edgy? Sure. An example of targeted harassment, worthy of formal sanction? Surely not. But the post generated many complaints. Several students even filed bias response reports. (These are also contained in Sample's file.) IWU's bias reporting system asks the victim to give the name of the perpetrator, provide documentation of the offense, and explain the impact. One victim said Sample's post "made me feel upset and shaken." Still another wrote "he cannot state that cultural appropriation is irrelevant/idiotic and mock other religions and cultures," as if disagreeing with with someone else's beliefs constituted criminal behavior. Based on the feedback, Sample apologized for how he worded his post. "I think that views which may be in conflict with those held by administrators, staff, students, or organizations ought to be not only allowed, but perhaps even encouraged, because I value diversity of thought, and that was my original point," he wrote. "I did not express that well initially, and for that, I'm sorry." The file contains copies of emails exchanged between various IWU administrators. They take note of Sample's apology but conclude that "I don't think this changes our course of action." Next, the dean of the Honors College, David Riggs, emailed Sample to inform him that the college was "beyond disappointed" with his "deeply problematic and offensive" post. "As a result, the faculty decided it is necessary for us to issue a public statement making clear that we find this sort of uncharitable and inflammatory use of social media to be at odds with the ethos of our Christian liberal learning community," wrote Riggs. But merely issuing a statement wasn't enough. The university also decided to inform Sample that he was potentially in violation of university policy relating to harassment and disruptive behavior. He was asked to appear for a meeting six days later, where "based on the information gathered, a decision will be made." It soon became clear that the decision to sanction Sample had already been made, and could only have been avoided if the student had groveled before the administration. The file contains the notes of an administrator named Laura Bronsink, who met with Sample and explained that "based on only reading the post he seemed to have no concern for how others might respond. … It did not seem to invite a conversation, but rather antagonize individuals to respond with their opinion, even though his mind would not change." On this basis, Sample was found responsible on the two charges. IWU has three levels of probation: verbal warning, disciplinary warning, and citizenship probation. Sample's thought crimes were so egregious that the university had placed him in the most serious category—citizenship probation. He would be suspended from his extracurricular activities—including his position in the student government—for 60 days. He was also required to write a two-page reflection paper. Finally, after additional back and forth, he was dismissed from the honors program entirely. What he wrote in his reflection paper probably didn't help his case: Reading through Sample's responses to the patronizing and melodramatic missives of the administration, I noticed that his own conviction he did nothing wrong—indeed, that he was the victim—increased over time. In fact, he eventually filed his own bias complaint, asserting that the university had discriminated against him on the basis that he had been perceived as a white male. (Sample asserts he has Native American ancestry, and thus his declaration that he would appropriate this culture was not offensive.) "I am convinced that the Leftists in power desire nothing less than total domination over their students' ideas and worldviews," Sample told me. If the university wanted to persuade a young man that railing against social justice warriors wouldn't win him many converts, its strategy backfired. Administrators appear to have made Sample more convinced that progressives don't want to hear ideas they find offensive, more convinced that lefty-sympathetic authority structures will violate principles of free speech and due process to punish wrongthink, and more convinced that he was right to mock them. It surely appears the snowflakes rule the roost at IWU.

lol, the reaction of a petulant child who gets a downvote. So predictable:

There was also the great "Hurricane Scirfes" debacle here on the GID during the days of the Roncalli Horde.................

You have a great Thanksgiving as well Dann.

Exactly. They are like a separate city-state. Not too dissimilar to Chicago and it's surrounding environs.

We'll see what the police investigation reveals, but if all of these allegations are true then the Indianapolis Archdiocese probably won't have any choice but to perform a wholesale firing of Roncalli administrators and coaches. What kind of charges can be brought against the students who allegedly perpetrated these disgusting acts?

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2019/11/26/hes-spent-50-years-scorekeeper-frankfort-basketball-hot-dogs/2580711001/ A Frankfort institution. Here's to many more years as the Hot Dog's scorekeeper. And a minor nitpick: "Case Arena was a magnificent high school gymnasium"? I contend that it still is a magnificent high school gym, one of the best in a state full of magnificent gyms.

Maternal Care Scandal in Britain’s NHS Reveals Human Costs of Socialised Medicine: https://mises.org/wire/maternal-care-scandal-britain’s-nhs-reveals-human-costs-socialised-medicine What a horrible, horrible tragedy. And the root cause was a socialist system.

https://reason.com/2019/11/25/rand-paul-feds-wasted-22-million-subsidizing-serbian-cheese-production/ More inane deficit spending, more debt. This is the future America we are leaving for our children and grandchildren.

Purdue’s Mitch Daniels, after calling black scholar ‘rarest creature,’ says he’s ‘misunderstood’: https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2019/11/23/purdues-mitch-daniels-after-calling-black-scholar-rarest-creature-says-hes-misunderstood/4275353002/ Yet another college liberal looking to be "outraged" about something. How about actually you know, concentrating on your classes and your education, supposedly the reason you decided to enroll at a fine institution like Purdue University in the first place?

And where are they now? 1-9 IIRC, just two years after reaching the state title game. Just goes to show how that "once in a decade" class of "OMG! Athletes!" make or break most government school teams, especially in the lower enrollment classes. p/p schools with their inherent advantages, like long established youth feeder programs, make the dip in talent much less and much more manageable at the high school varsity level.

With 50% of the 12 schools in the state finals being from the Indianapolis Metropolitan urban sprawl (Marion + the surrounding doughnut counties) perhaps it is time for the IHSAA to consider a separate tournament structure.

*yawn* Another MIC 6A "state championship". *yawn*

An update on this issue from an Indy Star article. Signs point to a split coming in 2020: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/22/united-methodist-church-progressive-conservative-split-lgbtq/4233406002/

https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/columnists/suzette-hackney/2019/11/21/hackney-bigoted-indiana-university-professor-does-not-belong-classroom/4259245002/ Actually no, Ms. Hackney. In the context that you published this commentary it is the Indianapolis Star, a private entity and your employer, that allowed you to voice your opinions on this matter. The government, and therefore the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, has nothing to do with it. Indiana University, being a public entity, has to follow the First Amendment. The Indianapolis Star does not. Frankly IMHO this simple, basic, misunderstanding of the First Amendment calls her entire little rant into question.