Hunting Terrorists Vs. Celebrating Vaginas at Bucknell

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For the last few years, feminists (and their bewitched emasculated counterparts) at Bucknell University have hijacked Valentine's Day and renamed it V-Day. V-day has nothing to do with love or romance unless one counts being enamored with ones own vagina and the vaginas of ones so-called sisters. Simply put, V-day is a man-hating rally in the guise of an artistic celebration of female sexual organs in order to empower women. It is like Take Back the Night with a catchier marketing technique.

This prologue is needed to understand a current conflict befalling the Bucknell Conservative Club. According to Evan Coyne Maloney:

On August 29th, the Bucknell University Conservatives Club sent out a campus-wide e-mail announcing an upcoming speaker: Major John Krenson, who had been in Afghanistan "hunting terrorists." Those two words--"hunting terrorists"--resulted in three students being called to Bucknell's Office of the President by Kathy Owens, the Executive Assistant to the President.

According to the students, when they arrived at the President's Office for the meeting, Ms. Owens held up a print-out of the offending e-mail and said "we have a problem here," telling the students that the words "hunting terrorists" were offensive. For the next half-hour, the three students were given a lecture on inappropriate phrasing.

Maloney notes that on his last campus visit he saw numerous posters pointedly plastered with the term VAGINA: "Although some people might find these flyers offensive, it is protected speech at Bucknell--as it should be--but apparently the phrase 'hunting terrorists' is not."

Bucknell has come under fire recently for its overzealous political correctness and its seemingly active recruitment of students to support specific political positions (especially regarding feminism)*. All in all, Bucknell—-like many colleges and universities—-is charting a dangerous path. As Maloney points out, "...[T]he Bucknell administration is sending a signal to students: say only those things we approve of, or we will hassle you..." Yet, the school proclaims it has no speech code regarding what can or cannot be said on campus.

What depresses me the most is the far-reaching globalization of imbalanced (official and unofficial) speech codes on campuses. Bucknell is just one small example.

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*[FYI- Bucknell is *the* university whose Women's Resource Center coined the concept of "Feminist Friday Lunches" which are mini-rallies held EVERY Friday during the school year.]