Take Action for the Students for Academic Freedom

Written by Brandon Henak on January 30, 2007 – 5:29 pm -

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It would be an understatement to say that I am disappointed in the university I recently graduated from.

Marquette University’s about face on the Vagina Monologues is an example of masquerading behind a newly applied school policy in order to betray our Catholic Identity by putting on a morally reprehensible play about promiscuity, pedophilia and homosexual rape. All of this, in the name of “Academic Freedom” for the teachers.

Out of the otherside of our hypocritical administrators’ mouths comes the destructive denial of the Students for Academic Freedom on campus. Using a series of carefully constructed straw man arguments (described and dissected by Chuck, one of the founders of the organization), the university set up the Students for Academic Freedom for failure and them blew them over. This is just another glaring indicator of the Marquette University administrators’ continuing disregard for the university’s students and it’s Catholic identity.

I think Marquette is a good university that has the potential to be a great university but, not when it betrays it’s values and disrespects it’s students. Here are the three things I am asking you to do to show your support for the Students for Academic Freedom.

1. Email a simple request asking for the decision against Students for Academic Freedom to be overturned and requesting that Marquette stay true to it’s Catholic values when considering the Vagina Monologues to:
Father Wild robert.wild@marquette.edu
Daniel Callendrillo musg.president@mu.edu
Brock Banks musg.senate@mu.edu

2. Write an letter to the editor of The Warrior: Marquette’s Independent Student Newspaper

3. Join the Facebook group “We need a Student Bill of Rights at Marquette” a group of students who are behind the Students for Academic Freedom.

If you want to show Marquette the ridiculousness of it’s decision to support the Vagina Monologues as well, you can always join the satirical “Penis Monologues” facebook group.

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2 Comments to “Take Action for the Students for Academic Freedom”

  1. Brandon Henak Says:
    January 30th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

    Sent 1/30/07 to musg.senate@mu.edu,
    musg.president@mu.edu,
    robert.wild@marquette.edu,
    Jon.Dooley@mu.edu,
    Stephanie.Quade@mu.edu,
    Mark.McCarthy@mu.edu,
    Anthony.Peressini@mu.edu :

    Dear Leaders of Marquette University,

    It would be an understatement to say that I am disappointed in the university I recently graduated from.

    Marquette University’s about face on the Vagina Monologues is an example of masquerading behind a newly applied school policy in order to betray our Catholic Identity by putting on a morally reprehensible play about promiscuity, pedophilia and homosexual rape. All of this, in the name of “Academic Freedom” for the teachers.

    I believe it was hypocritical to execute the destructive denial of the Students for Academic Freedom on campus. Using a series of carefully constructed straw man arguments (described and dissected by Chuck, one of the founders of the organization), some of the administrators set up the Students for Academic Freedom for failure and them blew them over. This shows continuing disregard for the university’s students and it’s Catholic identity.

    I think that Marquette is a good university that has the potential to be a great university but, not when it betrays it’s values and disrespects it’s students. Please reverse your decision on the denial of the Students for Academic Freedom and restore your commitment to the schools Catholic Jesuit values by continuing to prohibit the vulgar attack on human dignity that is the Vagina Monologues from being performed on campus.

    Thank you for your time,
    Brandon Henak
    College of Business ‘06

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