Karl at Leaning Straight Up has the details.
Hooray!
Updated to add link (just found it on Google News):
After a sometimes-heated debate and an unusual roll call vote, the University of Washington student government Tuesday night backed the creation of a campus memorial to honor former students who have received the Medal of Honor.
The vote followed an earlier attempt by a UW student to create a memorial in recognition of Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, a pilot with the Flying Tigers and later the Marines in World War II.
The UW student government rejected the proposal for a Boyington memorial by one vote at a February meeting. News of the decision — and comments some students made that questioned if the university should honor a Marine who killed people, or a rich white man — became public, and hundreds of people wrote the university and undergraduates, many expressing outrage at the students.
Several students brought up that public scrutiny during their nearly hourlong debate and vote, which was recorded by a national television news crew.
UW junior Deidre Lockman said the meaning of the memorial had been “hijacked” by people for political purposes, noting the “horrible” treatment some students received from the public after they voted against the Boyington memorial. She feared that some students might be intimidated by the public reaction.
“The true intention of this resolution will not be achieved,” she said.
Others, such as sophomore Cailin Magruder, thought the Medal of Honor recipients should be recognized.
“I think these men left a legacy of great character that we can all cling to,” she said.
Senior Andrew Everett, who brought forth the idea to honor the Medal of Honor recipients, said the issue had become bigger than he had intended. He encouraged his peers to vote based on their conscience.
“Do what you think is right, please,” he said.
Though most of the students’ votes are typically done by voice or placard, students were asked to support or oppose the memorial individually during a roll call vote — a move that prompted at least one student to storm out of the meeting room before the vote.
More background on this story can be found in the following posts:
a local radio show carried the news with one of the Senators on the line to described the vote.
I verified the news on the UW Senate homepage where the resolution is not showing as passed. I see you found the PI link, which I am updating into mine as well.
Comment by Karl @ 4/5/2006 - 10:40 pm
Personally I think it’s a disgrace. The names of noble heroic people such as Gregory Boyington should not be sullied by association with whiny, self indulgent students. People like Boyington risked and sacrificed so their lessers might spit on their graves.
Comment by Steve Skubinna @ 4/6/2006 - 12:13 am
It’s funny that a student “stormed out” of the room when he found out his dissent was going to be public
. I wonder why?
Comment by blogagog @ 4/6/2006 - 1:05 am
- I’m guessing thats not the reason he stormed out. The hard left make up 140% of the public noise and jackass rhetoric, but barely 5% of the overall populace if that. No doubt on a college campus you’ll find a higher percentage, but generally they can’t stand to be “numbered”, so if it looks like they will be they run. They have a hard enough time looking representative without their true group size being exposed. They can’t handle that.
- In San Diego the anti-everythings are almost always outnumbered two or three to one by the real Americans at local rallys, and that’s with little or no organizing on our side of the fence. I watched some of the press camera guys “angling” their shots to give the impression the moon-bat brigade was bigger than it really was. At rallys I’ve been to, as time goes on, bystanders start joining the Pro-American side and when the crowd gets too big the ass-hats call it quits.
- In Crawford there were generally 5 times the pro-Bush crowd over the Mother Sheehan gaggle, something you’ll never see written up in the MSM Liberal lap dog press. Its one of the “progressives” dirty little secrets, along with all their blantant anti-American lies.
- Bang
Comment by Big Bang Hunter @ 4/6/2006 - 2:45 am
blogagog,
Everybody knows cockroaches scurry when you shine a light.
Comment by J Rob @ 4/6/2006 - 7:57 am
I’m happy the UW is putting up a memorial. I don’t think they realize how badly they need to remember the sacrifices of those who have enabled the University to be what it is.
I also think some students got a hard lesson in reality, and at least one was not ready for it.
Comment by PCD @ 4/6/2006 - 9:13 am
Could Steve(FN) have offspring?
Comment by Jim M @ 4/6/2006 - 9:19 am
Jim,
Nope, the kid didn’t say, “Peace, you warmongers!” as he left.
Comment by PCD @ 4/6/2006 - 9:44 am
Maybe that’s a good thing then, for the world I mean we don’t need another incoherent imbecile running around.
It must be just another kid with a skull full of mush then.
Comment by Jim M @ 4/6/2006 - 10:04 am
Of course the student council was pressured by checkbooks of the Alumnists and many others slamming shut, to “reconsider” their disrespectful stance and face the signicance of unaltered historical realities.
Now we’ll see if the memorial gets proper funding.
Comment by forest hunter @ 4/6/2006 - 6:45 pm
It is worthy to note that the vast majority of college students dont live in the real world. This is important to note because, while they may be inclined to rail against ‘the system’, they have not really participated in said system. They spend the first 18 years of their yong lives living on their parents largess. And then the next 4 years doing the same. They often regard themselves as independent. But in reality are still supported by their parents. most of these students will graduate and be forced to live in the real world. Pay taxes, bills, mortgages, and the like. It is then that they often realize that their left-leaning ways are not what it is cracked up to be. I think this is why the average age of the young republicans is 24. It is about a year or two after the students graduate and, for the first time, learn how the real world works.
Best Regards, CHOW
Comment by CHOW-STL @ 4/6/2006 - 8:24 pm
It’s nice that this has passed, but it was in the cards two months ago, and is the real reason why the Boyington-only memorial proposal failed (by a tie vote) - the student senators thought it better to have a memorial to benefit all UW MOH winners, not merely Boyington. That they did so despite the blogswarm is a credit to them.
Some students deserved the criticism tha they received, but to be honest clearly there was a gross and uninformed over-reaction. Perhaps now may be a good time for those who jumped on the bandwagon without thinking.
Please see my post here for more details:
http://captain-toke.redstate.com/comments/2006/2/17/1664/32017/24#24
The resolution itself can be found here: http://senate.asuw.org/legislation/viewleglist.cgi?view=final.
Regards,
TT
Comment by tokyo-tom @ 4/7/2006 - 4:33 am