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Evergreen College sanctions 80 snowflake students and issues a guide on how to deal with free speech like an adult

Emily Zanotti
The Daily Wire
Mon, 02 Oct 2017 09:46 UTC

Evergreen State College doled out punishments to 80 students they say were involved in an incident last spring that led to a schoolwide shutdown and a million dollar legal settlement.

They've also issued a handbook to students explaining, in great detail, how to handle the concept of "free speech" and what students should do if they encounter an opposing viewpoint (hint: it's not riot until the school shuts down and harass a professor and his wife out of their jobs).

Evergreen is facing both a budget and an enrollment crisis since students attacked Professor Bret Weinstein last May, alleging that he was "racist" for choosing not to participate in an event designed to show the impact of minority students on campus - but would have required all white students and faculty to stay home. Students became so enraged at the incident that they seized control of campus facilities, driving off campus safety officers and forcing the school to shut down for several days.

Comment: SJWs lose it, becoming an angry mob threatening violence at Evergreen University

Just last month, Weinstein and his wife, also a professor, settled with the school for half a million dollars, in a lawsuit that alleged Evergreen students had interfered with the teacher's right to free speech and his academic and intellectual freedoms.

Even before that happened, Evergreen announced that enrollment had dropped off, and that the school was facing a major budget crisis that could lead to cutbacks and layoffs.

In an effort to stem the bleeding, apparently, Evergreen told local media that they were investigating 180 current and former students for interfering with campus life.

"Of those 180 students, approximately 80 were found responsible for their actions," an Evergreen spokesperson said. "They received sanctions ranging from formal warnings, community service and probation, to suspension."

Most have already served their sentence, the school added.

This year, Evergreen has also issued a "Free Speech Guide" to students that instructs them in the basics of the First Amendment and reminds them that they cannot shut down speech, regardless of how offensive they may find it.

"The First Amendment allows speech that you may find extreme or hateful. It's not unusual for people to want to silence others' speech and eliminate that which is unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive," the guide states, according to The College Fix. "However, it is the protection of unpopular expression that lies at the core of the First Amendment, which makes it unlawful to prohibit speech based on content."

The booklet also outlines possible punishments that could result from acts of civil disobedience that wander into censorship or violence. If student protests interfere with school operations, damage buildings or other infrastructure, or result in the school having to engage the assistance of law enforcement and emergency personnel, students will face swift and immediate "social justice" of their own.

Such rules and regulations probably won't go over well with Evergreen students, who attend the "alternative" school so that they can learn the basics in a "social justice" environment.

Reader Comments

lsjarvi · 2017-10-03T13:52:40Z

Hey! They woke up! Now if governments will stop pandering to these totalitarians-in-the-making...

Rowan Cocoan · 2017-10-03T16:03:32Z

We need to stop one use of the two perfectly opposite uses of the word sanction. In common oral spoken usage / modern parlance, (which, rightly, both leads and controls written/textual usage) the text term 'sanction' is like few, if any, others.

It means both to shower with accolades, and to punish.

It means both to reward for good behavior and to punish for bad.

The 'punishment' aspect of 'sanction' has come primarily from our ever present, and overly prevalent, 'legal' system, and its jargon being released, like the Bulls of Pamploma - on an unsuspecting unprepared public.

Thus, one can hear - not rarely - in a court of law, one party's attorney, who maintains that the other side should be punished for their perjurious statements, under oath, saying:

"Your honor, this should not 'sanction' (approve) these malevolent and reprobate efforts by opposing counsel and their clients, and should therefore 'sanction' (publicly punish) them so that they realize that fairness remains a fundamental tenet of American Jurisprudence.

Therefore we maintain that you SHOULD 'sanction' (punish) them by a 'sanctioning' (punishing) fine (a/k/a, 'sanctions') in the amount of one million dollars, so that they and others of their ilk, similarly predisposed, might be dissuaded from such similar conduct, and might realize that inappropriate behavior by the parties or their attorneys will be harshly "sanctioned," while the efforts of kind benevolent souls (like us) in our nearly Christ-like efforts should and will be 'sanctioned' (applauded).

Got it?

Thus, until one usage overrides the other, I suggest all avoid the term till usage determines the winner, (though I'm confident that the STS voices of punish, punish, punish! / throw that first stone!!! will likely win out; at least the confusion, which enemies of truth revel in, at least would be, in some small way, minimized.

R.C.

baron · 2017-10-03T16:28:53Z

The Evergreen State College is a great college. It's a state college and that means it's a publicly supported college. Even so, the cost to obtain any kind of education beyond high school have grown horribly. I can't imagine trying to do today what I managed to do for myself in the 80's. Those whom fail to understand this doom their own children. Which is the whole idea don't ya see?

Conservatives and neocons have hated Evergreen from the day it was born, and there's a reason for that hate, but they also would like nothing better than to get rid of it as a part of public supported education, In their psychopathic minds this college is corrupting minds and looting them of self claimed extortion fees obtained in those educational systems that their own cult control.

Evergreen has taken fairly drastic recourse in the sanctions it applied to those involved. Evergreen, like other colleges, is being attacked. The enemy is using un-aware youth. It is manipulating these young people. It is and attack on freedom with a goal of re-writing history, It is using these self appointed do-gooders, minorities especially, to trample on the rights of everyone else under the guise of racism.

The greatest joy of evil is to use good intentions to do evil. This is as equally true for the self described conservatives as it was for those students whom themselves became unwitting pawns in an organized effort visible across the nation. In destruction there is creation. You cannot have a new order without the destruction of the old order. It's the creation of new world order.