SLU Requires Professor Speak Before Allen West to 'Contextualize' His Remarks
SLU Requires Professor Speak Before Allen West to ‘Contextualize’ His Remarks
By
emilyjashinsky
September 29, 2016
Saint Louis University (SLU) is working overtime to sabotage Lt. Col. Allen West’s campus speech sponsored by YAF’s Fred Allen Lecture Series scheduled for Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. CST. First, an administrator banned members of the campus conservative club from including the words “radical Islam” on advertisements for the event, claiming Lt. Col. West, a veteran of Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom, did not have enough “experience” to speak on that topic. Second, administrators sent out multiplecampus-wide emails trashing West for allegedly “offending” the school’s Muslim Students Association. The president of the school even referred to him as “distasteful” and diminished his credentials by calling him a “provocateur.” Now, YAF has learned that the schools is requiring Lt. Col. West’s lecture be “contextualized” by a professor before he even speaks. That means before West takes the podium Thursday night, a SLU professor will get the the opportunity to preface the lecture with a politically correct message that undermines what the audience will hear. This is what happens when students attempt to bring one conservative speaker to a liberal campus. Threatened leftists do everything they can to erect obstacles. SLU students deserve to hear more than the one-sided progressive rhetoric they’re taught in class. Join us in calling the office of SLU President Fred Pestello at 314-977-7777, tweeting @SLU_Official, and @SLUPresident. Demand SLU give Lt. Col. West the opportunity to share his conservative message unimpeded by bureaucratic roadblocks.
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