FOIA Request reveals SCANDAL- breach of trust/authority

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Monday April 05, 2010 · 11:06 PM PDT

2010/04/05 · 23:06

This is mainly about the pattern of partisan behavior and obvious discrimination at certain levels of campus administration here...

True diversity has little to do with Chief Illiniwek--one just has to look at the enrollment numbers of the University of Illinois to confirm this. The University of Illinois is the most diverse school in the big ten and in the top ten in diversity amongst its peer institutions. These are feats it achieved while Chief Illiniwek was still the official symbol of the University - since the retirement the numbers of underrepresented minorities attending Illinois have actually dropped. My point is that with the resources that these administrators are shamefully employing against the free speech of students they don't agree with, we could be aiding students of color and non-traditional students in their quest for a quality higher education or more accessible services.

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Monday April 05, 2010 · 2:12 PM PDT

2010/04/05 · 14:12

Americans think that where knowledge is concerned, more is always better. We don’t believe there are things we would rather not know, or things that only some of us should know--just as we don’t believe there are points of view that should not be expressed, or citizens who think too wrongly to vote. We believe that the more information and ideas we produce, and the more people we make them available to, the better our chances of making good decisions. At least according to a recent article in Forbes about America’s Best Colleges, knowledge is our most important business. The application and preservation of knowledge are the central activities of a civilization- as it is a connection to the past and an investment in the future. Preventing students, the most malleable members of society, from being able to form their own opinions not only deprives them of knowledge, but abridges their rights to free speech and peaceable assembly.

STUDENTS at the U of I have been stepping up against PARTISAN ADMINISTRATORS!! (The latest FOIA request reveals troubling actions by some administrators acting against the students when the U of I Student Government was going to officially admonish the administrators and call for greater accountability. More on this soon...)

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