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Letter: Alumna displeased with Student Senate, congratulates Carothers
Posted: 4/19/07
04/19/07 - To the Cigar,
I am a 1971 graduate of the University of Rhode Island and a member of the Alumni Association. I wish to register my displeasure with the recent URI Student Senate decision to derecognize the URI Young College Republicans. The Young College Republicans should be allowed to create scholarship awards as they see fit and valuable to the advancement of education.
I congratulate and support URI President Robert Carothers on his request for the Student Senate to reverse its decision to derecognize the URI Young College Republicans. But I think President Carothers needs to go further by one, establishing a United States Constitution First Amendment training session, and two, requiring URI Student Senate members and others to attend the training and write short essays on what the First Amendment provides for American citizens and the importance of the First Amendment in ensuring freedom of academic discourse.
This training could be similar to past programs such as social actions training and sexual harassment training that we have all attended in our universities and in businesses where we have been employed.
Christine Hallion
Editor's Note: The URI Student Senate has not derecognized the URI College Republicans. Rather a senate subcommittee voted to recommend the full senate derecognize the group.
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