CLEMSON UNIVERSITY’S POLITICAL MAGAZINE

1984?
All The Ways Clemson Tries to Run Your Life

NOVEMBER 2017
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Soft Tyranny
Letter from the Editor
P
ower corrupts, absolutely. Whether it be governing institutions, the administrators
at Clemson, or perhaps just your parents, those in authority have always clashed
with liberty. No one is more qualified or better suited to answer the question,
“what should I do with myself” than one’s self. This has been the mode of existence for
humanity since our conception: men and women, individuals, deciding for themselves
what code, credence, or creed they live by. Authority functions by the restriction of such
freedom, and those in power have rarely used it’s means to accomplish what benefits or
serves the desires of individuals.
At the turn of the 21st century; however, totalitarian governments, such as the Soviet
Union, had either largely diminished in their power or had toppled entirely. The perspec-
tive of most on the rise of democracy across the globe is positive, but power corrupts. Ab-
solutely. The 19th century philosopher John Stuart Mill demonstrated incredible foresight
with the prediction that democracy was not the solution to despots, but rather that it is
their replacement, “Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong
mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it
practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since,
though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape,
penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.” What
Mill feared was a “soft tyranny” where by the government imposes a standard of living
upon it’s citizens by the imposition of taxes, penalties, or others forms of weak coercion.
Through the steady implementation of these burdensome yet bearable “duties”, the domi-
nance of a majority could effectively force dissidents to conform to their way of life.
Such “tyrannies” are alive and well today in our society, bringing us to the topic of this edi-
tion: the social tyrannies practiced at Clemson University. A public-bureaucratic organiza-
tion which has in the past, as well as currently, utilized incentive & penalty based systems
to promote student behavior. These systems include an internal justice system; piloted
recklessly by probable cause. Articles featured inside the October 2017 edition of The
Tiger Town Observer cover topics about parking, OCES, and the tobacco ban on campus.
However, this is hardly the extent to which the university we’re attending pry’s its fingers
into our lives. IX training, “Community dialogues”, hoops to jump through when registering
organizations, the prohibition of personal defense weapons, this after barring the plethora
of other examples which have come to light over previous semesters.
It’s important to remember the administration’s policies and interventions into our scho-
lastic careers lays upon the foundation that they’re capable of improving our experience
and success here by making some of our choices for us. However, these are not morals
means, but means of power. Occasionally we will be served a benefit but that will be as by
product of the administration pursuing their vision for this university, not by serving yours.
The reality is the Orwell’s vision of a dominating “1984” society never manifested, but the
subliminal elements of control and direction into our personal lives commanded by those
in authority have.
Alexander Cullen,
Editor-in-Chief
 Clemson News

2 CUSG Student Senate Votes for Impeachment Trial . . . . 2-3

Zachary Faria

Featured Articles

The Other Police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

Joseph Ward

Source: “Parking Ticket” by

Alice Keeler, CC BY 2.0
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Parking Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
Cadeshia Benjamin

Who Knows What’s Best For You. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9

Zachariah Talley

TTO Self Defense. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-11

MaryGrace Drwal
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Alumni Collumn

An Open Letter to Clemson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-13

Paul Gilbert

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Cover by Jack Timmerman

 CUSG Senate Votes to Hold
Impeachment Trial for VP Stewart
In a 40-18 vote, after heated debate, CUSG Student Senate votes to move to trial for
VP Stewart.
By Zachary Faria
O
n Monday, the Clemson Student Senate
voted 40-18 to hold an impeachment trial
against Student Body Vice President Jaren
Stewart. The vote comes on the heels of a proce-
dural error in the last Senate meeting that prevent-
ed the Articles of Impeachment from being heard.
Senator Miller Hoffman reintroduced the Articles
of Impeachment and demanded “that this body at
least listen to what I have to say”. After conclud-
ing his reading of the articles, the charges against
VP Stewart included not fulfilling his elected du-
ties as vice president and being unfit for his of-
fice, stemming from the allegations levied against
Stewart when he was fired as a resident assistant
last April. Stewart, President Killian McDonald,
and Attorney General Janay Crosland were not in
attendance, as they were in Washington D.C. for
the ACC Advocacy Conference.
The first major vote of the issue came on whether
the Senate would enter executive session for the
question and answer period as well as the pro-con
debate, removing everyone from the room except
the senators and a select few officials and turning
off the live stream. That vote failed 37-20, and the
remainder of the proceeding was conducted in the
public eye.
After a 15-minute question and answer period
aimed at Senator Hoffman, the pro-con debate pe-
riod began. On the “con side”, the most prominent
arguments were that the leaked incident reporting
form was illegally re- quired and shouldn’t be
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entertained, that the Senate should wait until Stew-
art and Crosland were present, and that the trial
couldn’t possibly be a “fair process” for Stewart.
The arguments on the “pro side” centered around
putting the issue to rest with a hearing and remov-
ing the cloud hanging over both Stewart and the
Senate with their constituents.
While Senate President Leland Dunwoodie and
the Senate officers did a fantastic job of maintain-
ing order during the nearly two-hour period, the
debate became undeniable chaotic and disorderly
when Senator Albert accused Senator Hoffman of
being a racist, prompting loud responses from both
the Senators as well as the gallery. Once the de-
bate was ended there was a motion to vote by se-
cret ballot. This motion survived an objection, and
at 11pm the votes were totaled at 40-18 in favor
of holding an impeachment trial against Student
Body Vice President Stewart, easily surpassing the
51% threshold needed.
According to Article V of the Undergraduate Stu-
dent Government Constitution, the trial must take
place “no earlier than one week and no later than
two weeks after the motion to impeach has been
passed”, and the entire trial will be done in exec-
utive session, with exceptions for witnesses, who
will be let in one at a time. Two-thirds votes will
be required to impeach, and any appeals would be
required to be sent to the Student Supreme Court
within five university business days.
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The Other Police
Constitutional Rights Undermined by The Office of Community and
Ethical Standards
By Joseph Ward
T
he Clemson office of Com-
munity and Ethical Stan-
dards -- OCES -- is a body
at Clemson which enforces the
Code of Conduct found in the
Student Handbook. In reality, the
degree to which this group seiz-
es and holds onto power which is
rightfully the jurisdiction of the
law is, to say the least, frightening.
The Student Handbook,
accessible from Clemson’s OCES
webpage, covers the university’s
positions and punishments on
a variety of issues. These in-
clude a variety of issues which
are clearly the legal jurisdiction
of legal systems, and not the pre-
rogative of an extra legal body
conducted in large part by students.
These include but are not limit-
ed to stalking, harassment, illegal
drug or alcohol usage, and sexual
or domestic violence. One may
wonder why these would fall under
Clemson’s jurisdiction at all. Cer-
tainly any of these issues can and
should be taken to the proper legal
authorities, but Clemson’s claim
to have jurisdiction to commit stu-
dents to double jeopardy in a bas-
tardized trial is simply ridiculous.
Take, as an example, the
proposed punishments for viola-
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tion of the drug or alcohol policy:
“admonition, censure, probation,
restriction of privileges, eviction
from University housing, suspen-
sion, expulsion and referral for
prosecution. In addition to the
disciplinary sanctions, students
may be referred to
Counseling
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and
Psychological Services (CAPS)
for assessment and follow-up.”
Insofar as the illegal substance
use does not pose a direct threat
to university students, personnel,
or property, what proper justifica-
tion can they have for any involve-
ment in the matter whatsoever?
If a student is caught in the act of
using an illegal substance, legal
repercussions prescribe the proper
penalties; if convicted by a court
of law to such a degree as marks
the individual’s criminal record,
the university can certainly delib-
erate on whether or not to continue
to allow that individual to attend.
However, the legal repercussions,
ranging from fines to jail time pro-
vide more than enough incentive
against these activities. Frankly,
the university claiming any in-
volvement in the matter at all is a
blatant power grab. The same goes
for all the already legally-en-
forced crimes the university
claims to have jurisdiction over.
As a side note, the univer-
sity does not even limit their
power grab to on campus of-
fenses; the Student handbook
states clearly that individuals may
be punished for violating the Code
of Conduct on or off campus. This
means that if you are caught drink-
ing underage in New York over a
break, OCES has the power to bring
charges against you at Clemson.
More disturbing than the
blatant power grab, however, is
the dystopian nature by which
they conduct proceedings. Al-
most all liberalized legal philos-
ophy of the modern West holds
that an individual must be shown
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to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Clemson
University holds itself above this legal philosophy:
to be found guilty by OCES, the school must only
prove it more likely than not that the student com-
mitted the offense. Clearly, the differences between
proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and prov-
ing guilt just enough to be likely are enormous. Yet
this is simply a further demonstration of Clemson
University’s authoritarian grab for power which
should be held by the courts, without even follow-
ing the great liberal traditions which drive our courts.
However, this is not surprising; OCES also
disregards as irrelevant the findings of an actual, le-
gally endowed court of law. In the Handbook we learn
that student discipline proceedings and actions are not
subject to challenge or postponement on the grounds
that criminal or civil charges involving the same in-
cident have been dismissed, reduced or are pending
in civil or criminal court. The different standards of
guilt between each of these two court systems has
already been discussed; and the matter remains that
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it is far easier for OCES to find a student guilty by
a majoritarian standard such as theirs than by an ab-
solute standard such as that of true courts of law. So
even if the properly-endowed authorities in a legal
proceeding find an individual not guilty, they can re-
gardless be charged with the crime by the university.
All these critiques are not to say that OCES
has no proper authority on campus; it most cer-
tainly does and in fact it acts very well in its one
proper capacity: the insurance of academic honesty
and integrity and punishing those failing to show
it. However, we are all adults paying the univer-
sity ridiculous amounts of money to come here;
as such, we are responsible for our own actions
and should not be subject to the harangues of an
extra legal court. Otherwise, emergencies or vi-
olations of law which are the jurisdiction of law
should remain in the hands of the law. The univer-
sity’s standards for punishment and the array of
things they’ll punish you for are simply ridiculous.
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Parking Services
Is There Really a Choice With Parking?
By Cadeshia Benjamin
A
t the beginning and end of a typical day
here at Clemson University, I have aca-
demics on my mind, I’m worrying about
an exam I have coming up, or my performance on
an exam I maybe have already taken. Along with
all the other students here on this campus, our
primary goal is to come to Clemson and obtain a
degree. However, as Clemson students, a lot of
us have to ponder not only on whether or not we
are going to be able to find parking when heading
to class, but if we are going to receive a nice
orange letter of violation on our
window shield when we get
to our car. This quite
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frankly should not be the case.
One of the most discussed topics about
being a student here at Clemson is the lack of park-
ing spaces available. “I don’t even see the point in
driving or purchasing a parking pass because I’m
not going to be able to find a park anyway”, said
Blanche Stuckey, a Sophomore majoring in History
here at Clemson. Many students resort to “illegally
parking”, simply because it’s a lose-lose situation:
to buy a parking pass and not be able to find a park,
or actually buying a pass, and still not having a
place to park.
According to Clemson University’s web-
site, as of 2016, a whopping 23,406 students were
enrolled at Clemson University. Logistically speak-
ing, all of the 23,406 students do not drive
to campus, however, it’s already a set
up for failure on the students’ behalf.
Only a quarter of the required
parking spaces are pro-
vided, yet the
university
is still
selling
over
the
amount
of park-
ing spots
actually avail-
able. Parking Services generates
an annual revenue of over 4 million
a year when you add together the
purchasing of permits and tickets given,
placing it at number 2 on the list of sources
of income for Clemson. That in itself says a
lot about the university and our parking dilemma
here at Clemson.
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I myself have fallen victim to the system.
Just last week I received not one, not two, but
three tickets. One for an expired meter and two for
being illegally parked, simply because I could not
find a park in time for class. This is just a complain
coming from a commuter. A residential student
permit is just as pricey as a commuter permit, yet
they have the hassle of a 15-20 minute walk to and
from their lot, while also having to move their cars
every single game day to make room for the tail-
gaters. How the University doesn’t understand this
to be an undue hassle is beyond me. We are ex-
pected to remember which specific employee lots
you can park in after 4:30pm, which ones you have
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to wait until 6:00pm for, it makes it that much hard-
er to follow rules when you’re simply just trying to
make it to class on time.
Are there solutions? We’ve all been talking
about them. There have been talks of building a ga-
rage, but hearsay confirms that a garage is extreme-
ly too expensive and Clemson will not invest in it.
I’ve reached out to parking services and anyone has
yet to comment, but I’m sure they are aware of the
situation. Yet tickets are still being given left and
right to students the administration knows will not
have spots. At this point, it’s no longer the elephant
in the room, but a problem that me and my fellow
peers want taken care of, and fast.
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Who Knows What’s Best For You?
Clemson Administration, Your Rights On Campus, and Tobacco
By Zachariah Talley
W
hen I was a freshman I
was a member of Clem-
son’s Undergraduate
Student Government Senate. This
was before the days of virtue sig-
naling with meaningless resolu-
tions and sitting for the pledge;
back in these days Senate actual-
ly did things. One of those things
they did was push back against a
proposal for a campus wide tobac-
co ban that was being put forward
by the director of Redfern. The
proposal was simple: ban all
tobacco in all forms from
Clemson’s campus. When
Senate heard this plan
we naturally had a few
questions. “How would
this be enforced?”
“Why all tobacco in-
stead of just smoking?”
“Is it really the univer-
sity’s job to control per-
sonal behavior like this?”
We had the chance
to ask the Director all of these
questions in person. The answer
of how it would be enforced was
simple, it wouldn’t be. There is no
way to enforce this measure that
doesn’t cost an exorbitant amount
of money. The idea was put up lots
of signs about Clemson being a
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smoke free campus. If this is be- son it was a tobacco ban and not a
ginning to sound a little ridiculous smoking ban was because the ban
- if you’re wondering how some- was about the university’s obliga-
one proposing a ban of something tion to keep students as healthy as
that he can’t actually ban became possible even if it meant restricting
a high-ranking member of uni- their freedom. This sent a chill up
versity administration - you’re many Senator’s spines. Up until
getting an idea of what all the this point many of us thought the
Senators were feeling that night. ban was being proposed because
T h e smoking looks trashy and hurts our
image or that second hand smoke
could potentially cause harm to
students. That’s why several
Senator’s proposed changing
it to a “smoking ban” or cre-
ating designated smoking
areas on campus away
from high foot-traf-
ficked parts of campus.
But the ban wasn’t
about smoking, it was
about the administra-
tion’s belief that they
have the right to control
your actions because they
know what is best for you.
Say what you want about
smoking or dipping or (if you’re
extremely pretentious) vaping - no
credit wikimedia
one forces you to do it and you
answers to the are only hurting yourself. In this
latter questions changed the atmo- country you are your own prop-
sphere in the senate chambers. The erty; if you want to eat crap, not
Director informed us that the rea- exercise, and drink too much that’s
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your prerogative. However, Clemson administrators
don’t see it that way. They know what’s better for us
than we do and as a result they have the right to im-
pose their ideas onto everyone within their kingdom.
It’s worth noting that Senate fought and de-
feated this proposal. A massive survey was conduct-
ed of students which proved beyond a doubt that the
proposal was unpopular and research showed that
it was on shaky legal grounds as well. In the end it
became so unpopular that the Director dropped it…
for a eighteen months. After the racket calmed down
and many Senators graduated the administration qui-
etly enacted the policy over the summer. Same plan,
same logic. It’s also worth noting that there are a
lot of similarities between the tobacco ban propos-
Source: “Smoking Cigarette” by Lindsay Fox, ECigaretteReviewed.com, CC BY 2.0
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al and the Student Athletic Fee proposal. This also
got massive pushback from Senate and the student
body. So, the administration went quiet about it.
Now, as the online system continues to get worse,
would anyone be shocked if Dan Radacovick came
out with the Fee as a way of “fixing the system?”
The point is this, no university administra-
tor knows what’s best for everyone’s life and they
shouldn’t have the power to enforce their wills
onto all of us. And yet, that is exactly what Clem-
son administrators do with increasing frequen-
cy and boldness. It’s the nanny state on a campus
level. And the precedence set by the tobacco ban
lays the groundwork for more invasions of privacy
and liberty in the name of “knowing what’s best.”
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TTO Self Defense
Ambiguous Codes Leave Students Without Ways to Defend Themselves
By MaryGrace Drwal
A
ccording to the Clemson University Hous-
ing Rules and Regulations, “the possession,
storage or use of paint-ball guns, slingshots,
explosives, fireworks, dangerous chemicals or mix-
tures of chemicals, propelled missiles or similar items
are prohibited in University Housing even if they are
not intended to be used as a weapon or destructive
device.” After reading this statement, one may very
well come to the conclusion that mace, which can be
categorized as “dangerous chemicals or mixtures of
chemicals,” is banned in on-campus housing. Yet,
when the Tiger Town Observer reached out to Univer-
sity Housing to clarify the non-lethal weapons poli-
cy, a member of the staff replied, “Mace is permitted.
Other types of weapons, like stun guns, are not per-
mitted under our policy.” But what should Clemson
students have faith in? – the official University Hous-
ing Rules and Regulations, or the housing staff?
While this question obviously affects all
law-abiding students, it particularly applies to fe-
males on campus. As a female freshman, I be-
lieve it is my right to defend my-
self with mace both in my
dor-
mitory
and around oth-
er areas of Clemson’s
campus. Yet given the obvious
contradiction between the housing poli-
cy and the staff’s response, some students may be
afraid of possible punishment if they are found with
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what easily stands as “dangerous chemicals.” This
begs the question of what Clemson’s administration
is attempting to drive in their policies and messag-
ing to students. Is the vague language an attempt
to push a more authoritative agenda about self-de-
fense, or is it just a matter of a confused housing
policy? If mace is allowed on campus but not in
on-campus housing, what is the point of buying it?
It seems that Clemson really needs to be
more explicit about which substances are
banned and which are allowed as
without clarification, one might
be left to wonder whether there
is some sort of administrative
bias against advocating a proven
self-defense mechanism such
as mace. On the “CU Safety”
portion of Clemson’s website,
students are given various tips
on how to prevent crime. The
website says that when walking,
“many objects in your purse or on
your body can be used as a weapon to
defend against an attacker (keys, fingernails,
metal nail file, etc.).” Once again, Clemson uses
very vague language when it comes to self-defense
on campus. The use of mace is not explicitly men-
tioned as a way to prevent crime, but students are
told to revert to such ineffective methods as nail
filers and fingernails. Thus, students reading these
guidelines may very well believe that mace cannot
be used in any way, especially considering the threat
of disciplinary action, which is ironically thorough-
ly described in the Housing Rules and Regulations.
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According to these regulations, incident reports can
be written if a student commits an infraction of any
housing policies, and disciplinary action includes
“administrative sanctions, temporary removal, sus-
pension or eviction from University Housing and/
or suspension or dismissal from the University.” The
regulations also state that “residents may… be re-
quired to pay fines and/or make restitution” and that
“those who violate state and/or municipal laws are
subject to prosecution in civil or criminal courts.”
The fact that Clemson has created confusing,
vague guidelines concerning such an important issue
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is unacceptable. Students have a right to know what
they can do to protect themselves in case of an emer-
gency, and the idea that someone can be brought up
on charges for violating an ambiguous policy is outra-
geous. Clemson parents leave their sons and daugh-
ters with the expectation that the administration will
do everything necessary to protect their children.
Unfortunately, Clemson is leaving open for interpre-
tation a very important policy which in students who
adhere to narrow interpretation of the rules may be
left at risk when they face safety situations on campus.
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 ALUMNI COLUMN

An Open Letter to Clemson

From a ‘71 Clemson Grad

By Paul Gilbert

I
have emailed Clemson University’s President
Clements on several occasions requesting to be
updated on the employment status of professor
Bart Knijnenburg for his vile rant, wherein he called
Republicans “racist scum” and suggested the use
of violence against conservatives because we don’t
share his political thinking. These inquiries were
largely rhetorical, since I assume that I would have
heard reports of his dismissal had it actually oc-
curred. They have also gone unanswered.
There have been other similar cases of egre-
gious “misspeak” by academics and other high-pro-
file individuals that resulted in the thoughtless of-
fenders paying a high price for their stupidity…but
not so much at Clemson. This is disheartening. For
example:
• A University of Tampa Professor was fired
when he claimed that hurricane Harvey was
“instant karma” for Texas because Trump won
that state in 2016;
• A Trinity Professor was immediately placed
on leave for posting that the EMT’s “should
let white people f**king die” in the aftermath
of the Steve Scalise shooting;
• A very, very stupid part-time law instructor
at Austin (Texas) Community College was
effectively fired from his full-time job with
an Austin law firm when he suggested that he
would be okay with (Trump’s) Secretary of
Education being sexually assaulted;
• It was just a few weeks ago that a Georgia
school teacher was “removed from the class-
room” after she ejected two students from her
class for wearing Trump t-shirts, and said that
the MAGA slogan was the equivalent of a
swastika;
• And just a few days ago, a CBS legal
executive was fired when she made outra-
geous remarks suggesting that the victims
of the Las Vegas shooting deserved their
fate because, as country music fans, they
were likely Trump supporters.
In these instances, the adults in charge
demonstrated that they had the backbone to rid
themselves of real low-life’s, and they stand in
stark contrast to the Clemson administration and
its Board of Trustees who appear to have made
Clemson a “safe space” for leftist professors and
staff whose actions and speech demean and threat-
en violence against conservatives.
What is even worse is that the administra-
tion’s inaction seems to offer protection for Kni-
jnenburg’s right to free speech when, ironically,
his vile statements and threats of violence against
conservatives actually suppress, if not completely
deny, those very same rights for conservatives...
particularly conservative students on campus. Do
they not see this, or are they so “progressively left”
that they are blind to this obvious double stan-
dard? I have to believe that the administration’s

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silence on Knijnenburg’s outrageous comments will
also further embolden the campus’ “social justice
warriors” like Kumanyika, May, Richardson, Miller,
Jacks, etc. Just watch...
For what it’s worth, I will not step foot on
campus so long as Knijnenburg is employed there.
He and his like-minded, America-hating colleagues
Photos courtesy of Campus Reform
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bring values to Clemson University that are anti-
thetical to mine. I know who the real “scum” is in
this case, and it’s not me. It’s Knijnenburg. And if
the administration and Board of Trustees sit idly
by, thereby effectively condoning his comments
while he dampens the right to free speech of oth-
ers in the process, then they, too, are part of the
cesspool of hate. Or…they are simply cowards.
Either way, it’s very sad to witness the erosion of
values that were once upon a time instilled in me
by Clemson University.
Such inaction is an affront to conservative
students and alumni, and Clements and his admin-
istration, as well as the members of the Board of
Trustees, should be ashamed.
Paul Gilbert
B Arch, ’71 & MCRP ‘73
THE TIGER TOWN OBSERVER / 13
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