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White Student Union not affiliated

4 October 2012 By Deb Moriarty, Vice President for Student Affairs 20 Comments

I am writing to address some of the misconceptions regarding the formation of the White Student Union at Towson University.

From the press and the speaker on campus Tuesday, Oct. 2, I believe the impression has been formed that the University is not allowing this group to form.

We have a process through Student Government and Student Activities whereby students can establish intent to form a group along with criteria for going through the SGA Recognition process.

The process in place includes viewpoint neutral guidelines for recognition based on objective criteria consistently applied to all student requests and based on national best practices.

One of the criteria states that “Active membership of all student organizations shall be chosen without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation or gender.”

In addition, the group must have a constitution, a minimum of eight current students interested in being members and a faculty adviser.

To date, the proposed White Student Union has not met the criteria to complete the recognition process.

At Towson, the exchange of ideas is essential to our mission as is our commitment to diversity and non-discrimination.

On occasion, this freedom allows for ideas and statements that may be offensive and hurtful to many and may run against the grain of the values of the University.

I hope this helps to clarify the process that is underway regarding the formation of the White Student Union.


20 Comments »

  • Me said:

    One of the criteria states that “Active membership of all student organizations shall be chosen without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation or gender.”

    This doesn’t make sense. I read another article that mentioned a black student union.

  • You said:

    @me

    I believe the BSU is open to members of all races/religions, etc. If the WSU is open to anyone who wishes to join, then it should become a non sequitur. If the group has a constitution, 8 students wishing to join, and a faculty advisor, they should be affiliated. However, I suspect that the last condition will be the most difficult to fulfill. This, in spite of the university’s lip-service to commitment to the “exchange of ideas.”

  • A Towson resident said:

    Don’t bother, Deb, facts and reason don’t matter with these jackasses.

    @You, the university can’t force any professor or staff member to be an adviser. That not a single one on campus, out of hundreds, says more about how extreme WSU is than it does about how extreme the professors or staff members are.

    Nobody wants a WSU. If they did, it would be an easy thing to get members and an adviser. But they can’t – everyone has heard these “ideas” and rejected them already.

  • A Towson resident said:

    Oh, and what is this I read elsewhere on The Towerlight? The school reduced fees to the group for it’s speaker?

    Yeah, they are totally not supportive. *rolls eyes*

  • A White Guy said:

    If you want to learn something about how Multiculturalism came to our shores, or mass immigration, have a look at Kevin MacDonald’s book “The Culture of Critique”. Here is a sample of the immigration chapter

    http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/books-immigration.html

    White people are oppressed by the media, by owned politicians, and by a tightly controlled academia. These events raise our consciousness. They are Kryponite for anti-white racists. This is why they become hysterical in attacking such groups.

  • Idea Woman said:

    To: A Towson resident

    Are you really trying to say that you speak for “everyone”? C’mon now, that sure is presumptuous and disingenuous.

    Common White-European interests and advocacy are just as legitimate as any other ethnic and/or racial interests and advocacy. With Whites becoming a minority in America, even more so important.

    If I’m not mistaken the fees that were reduced had to do with security. How many other groups have to have similar security?

  • Harumphty Dumpty said:

    “Active membership of all student organizations shall be chosen without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation or gender.”

    Two questions, if anyone can help me with the answers:

    1. I assume there are some black, hispanic and other ethnic organizations on the Towson campus. What is the degree of participation in any of these particular groups by members of other ethnicities?

    In particular, what is the degree of participation of whites in any of the black organizations there may be on campus? Are whites truly welcome in such organizations, and do they join them?

    2. That last question was motivated by the observation that about half the audience at yesterday’s event appeared to be black, and that observation also motivates this question:

    In white organizations that have been set up on other campuses around the country, have members of other ethnicities joined those organizations purely for the purpose of rendering them inoperative, and how has that played out?

  • A Towson Alum said:

    @ Harumphty Dumpty

    The BSU as well as I’m sure all the other student groups allow members from all walks of life and cultures. Whether or not those people CHOOSE to join is on them not the BSU. You cannot penalize the group for others not wanting to join. People not joing has nothing to do with their acceptance.

  • Harumphty Dumpty said:

    Congratulations, Towson students! Your laudable efforts to found a white student union have captured our attention at White GeNOcide Project!

    Are White Student Unions a Key to Reversing White Genocide?

    Yes!

    Acceptance of “whiteness” as legitimate would be a huge breach in anti-whites’ fortifications if it occurred anywhere at all!

    But acceptance of “whiteness” in the anti-whites’ strongest redoubts and chief training camps, college campuses, will be the beginning of the end for the anti-whites’ world-wide program of white genocide!

    These brave young white men and women will not be lulled into frittering away their energy on “white civil rights” while anti-whites are continuing to flood EVERY white country and ONLY white countries with non-whites, and are continuing to force us to integrate with those non-whites so as to “assimilate,” i.e. intermarry and be blended out of existence.

    All other injuries to whites, however harmful and unfortunate, are just eddies in this raging current of white genocide that is rushing us toward extinction!

    We can help keep white students’ eye on the ball, White GeNOcide, by commenting to all articles on attempts to set up white student unions!

    http://whitegenocideproject.com/are-white-student-unions-a-key-to-reversing-white-genocide/

  • Curious16 said:

    Ok so I am a half white half “minority” student… I am no where near racist I am the most accepting person you could probably ever meet… So I am just going to start with; We have about every ethnicity of a student union on campus, and nobody bitches and complains about it. So if Caucasians would like to form their own union along with everyone else’s (accepting all races who would like to participate in the group) why is it a big deal? There are hate groups of EVERY race out there all over America and I believe its really ignorant to say that white students cannot have a group where they learn about history APPROPRIATELY AND INTELLIGENTLY (ALONG WITH OTHER RACES) because of the fear of a hate group? If thats the case then Towson should ban every single racial union that they have here because of a risk of a hate group. Especially if Towson takes so much pride in being diverse.. Then why can’t there be just ONE student union where any student of any race can partake in. Morgan Freeman’s response to “how to end racism?” was STOP TALKING ABOUT IT. Nobody is forming a hate group and EVERYONE deserves the same rights so what goes for all goes for all so everyone can stop being IGNORANT and stop making assumptions about the WSU because you all sound ignorant and un-educated. Don’t like my response? oh well.

  • guardian said:

    Any one opposing the white student union is either anti-white, or afraid of being thrown off the ethnic-privilege gravy train.

  • Roach said:

    They need an advsier, and 8 students at Towson. This is done just like every other group on campus. WSU is not a super special snowflake.

  • Count Yob said:

    Unfortunately, the commitment to diversity when it entails affirmative action programs is discriminatory against white (and sometimes even asian) students. So which of your contradictory ideals will you honor: diversity through discriminatory affirmative action or non-discrimination?

  • A Towson resident said:

    Is anyone going to respond to the fact that they can’t get 8 members or an adviser? Seriously, Towson University is not responsible for getting them that – they are.

  • Mike said:

    I’m sure they can get 8 students they did it for YWC, but they’ll never get an advisor.

  • Idea Woman said:

    With the sad state of our universities and political-correctness you may be right Mike. However, never say never. You just never know. The times they are a changin’, Mike. They do tend to do that. When the pendulum swings as hard, far and fast as it did over the last 40+ years, it can just as easily swing the other way.

  • Me said:

    Lots of the faculty are probably white themselves so if the WSU can’t get an advisor, it is probably because they fear retaliation from their employer.

  • Cris Corcoran said:

    Ok I’ll just say it… Why does academia seem to have a hate on for white people?
    Seriously that’s what it seems like and this appearance though perfectly crystallized in this university’s attitude toward the idea of a white student union has been quite noticeable in the past two decades throughout university’s and other centers of education all over the western world.

    Why so racist?

  • Count Yob said:

    The cultural marxist notion of racism is tilted against white people just as the cultural marxist notion of sexism is tilted against men, the cultural marxist notion of homophobia is tilted against heterosexuals and the cultural marxist notion of anti-Semitism is tilted against non-Jews. The inner party of cultural marxism thrives on class warfare based on such divisions.

  • TU grade said:

    If even Dr. Vatz who is as conservative as they come, won’t act as an adviser (and he started out advising YWC) that should tell you something about the group.

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