Following is UNCW Professor Dick Veit’s letter to the editor of the Wilmington Star-News Saturday (Dec. 13) on the issue of the CRs refusing to include the university anti-discrimination clause (which, as their leaders have suggested, would not allow them to turn away Democrats and is a violation of their Freedom of Association guaranteed by the First Amendment).

This is how a faculty leader ? not to mention recent head of the UNC Faculty Assembly (hot link chosen for particular irony) ? treats students. This is absolutely contemptible.

Here is his letter verbatim:

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Back to the past?

Editor: Let’s hear it for UNCW’s Young Republicans [sic], fighting for the right to keep out black people and Jews.

Why should their members be forced to associate with Catholics [sic ? the CRs’ president is Catholic] or Arab Americans if they don’t care to? And how much fun can it be to make fun of gays in a room where gay Republicans are present?

If our campus Republicans are uncomfortable being around blind people or students in wheelchairs, what gives UNCW the right to withhold money from student fees?

Fight on, Young Republicans [sic], to return us to the days when segregation was a proud tradition. How dare UNCW discriminate against a club that discriminates.
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