If you were planning to go to MCC at 7:00PM tomorrow night to hear NIU law professor Marc Falkoff discuss poetry written by detainees at Guantanamo, save yourself the trip. The conference center will be dark, except for the people in the parking lot who won't hear of the last-minute cancellation.
The Northwest Herald gave Joe Alger a lot of undeserved press about his statement that the called MCC intermin president Kathleen Plinske to "demand" that she cancel this event.
Alger thinks he's pretty important, doesn't he?
MCC's "explanation" that they needed more time to arrange for staff reminded me of Leigh Rubin's RUBES cartoon on November 30, in which one character says to another, "... and this is nothing but a big load of croc!" I guess you'd have to see the cartoon to really "get" it, but you can probably get my message without the cartoon.
What apparently happened is that MCC officers rolled over, when a few people, like Alger, called to whine about tomorrow's program. The Student Peace Action Network (SPAN) has been planning this event since about September and has been publicizing it for about a month. If the College needed to arrange more staff, it should take them about 30 minutes (probably less) to do so.
Alger is welcome at any future event. It will be open to the public. If he is disruptive, I will personally make a formal complaint to campus security and to the Crystal Lake Police Department and see that he is escorted from the conference center and arrested. There; how's that for being pretty straight forward?
There was a large group of unruly protestors at a prevous MCC event that should have been ejected. Instead, the panel and the moderator, and the audience, tolerated their disruptive tactics. They were a flag-waving "Support the Troops" gang that could not distinguish between supporting the troops and opposing the war. They should have been cautioned only once by the moderator, warned only once by campus security, and arrested by the Crystal Lake police officers present.
It's regrettable that MCC did not allow the event organizer to attend its meeting yesterday, as reported in this morning's paper. I'll bet that SPAN could have arranged its faculty advisor to be at the event, had it, in fact, not already arranged to do so.
What's the big deal about having a faculty adviser there to babysit, anyway?
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3 comments:
Who does Mr. Alger think he is, Gus Philpott? The nerve of him to have an opinion AND express it! He probably read your posts about your disgust at the community for not getting involved. Can't have it both ways Gitmo Gus.
Hooray for Alger! Finally someone has the guts to stand up to these liberal academics that use our educational facilities to spew their own liberal rhetoric.
I would have rather had a program about the sorrow and loss of the families of the almost 3000 individuals who lost their lives through the murderous terrorist actions of these jihadist killers. How quickly some in this country forget and forgive and make the perpertrators into the poor victim. They are not the victims they are the sworn enemy of this country and the civilized West. Get real and wake up America and you so called peace activits everywhere; peace activists with no answers to the proplem.
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