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DePaul, Meet Kutztown

DePaul University, a private institution that proudly bills itself as the nation鈥檚 largest Catholic university, could learn a few lessons from Pennsylvania鈥檚 little-known Kutztown University. Earlier this week, the College Republicans at Kutztown did exactly what the DePaul Conservative Alliance tried to do鈥攖hat is, they had an 鈥渁ffirmative action bake sale.鈥 As 果冻传媒app官方鈥檚 recent press release on DePaul noted:

Affirmative action bake sales are a widely used form of satirical protest against affirmative action. Organizers display a menu on which black and Hispanic students are charged lower prices than Asian and white students for the same items. The bake sales are intended to spark debate about affirmative action policies, not to raise revenue.

DePaul, like many other universities, responded to the provocative protest by shutting it down. And to make matters worse, at least one student organizer was ridiculously charged with 鈥渉arassment.鈥 DePaul President Dennis Holtschneider, who鈥檚 so far been publicly silent on the matter, could learn a few things from the administration at Kutztown. Not only was the bake sale there not shut down, but university officials that 鈥渢hey hope the bake sale promotes healthy debate on campus.鈥 To be clear, Kutztown鈥檚 actions actually fly in the face of its red-light speech code, so its administrators are at best inconsistent friends of liberty. But, unfortunately, it doesn鈥檛 take much to be better than the folks running the show at DePaul, where FIREhas had three cases in less than a year.

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