Handing out the constitution gets students threatened with arrest – IOTW Report

Handing out the constitution gets students threatened with arrest

The constitution is controversial and not for everyone on a college campus. Handing one out is “solicitation” to a point of view that not everyone will hold.

Excuse me while I vomit.

Campus Reform-

Students from the newly-formed Turning Point USA chapter atGrand Valley State University were handing out pocket Constitutions and pamphlets promoting their new group on campus recently when they were approached by two campus police officers, who instructed them to desist because they were violating the school’s solicitation policy.

“If you continue to stay here, then we’ll need to arrest you.”   

“In order to do that, you gotta be approved by the office of student life,” one officer told them, asserting that the policy applies to any distribution of materials, even if one is not selling anything or asking for money.

When the students asked what would happen if they chose to continue, the officer initially said that the students would be referred to the Office of Student Life while the non-students would be asked to leave campus, but then stated, “If you [students and non-students] continue to stay here, then we’ll need to arrest you” for trespassing.

Berning noted that this is the third instance in which one of the student groups he works with has either been stopped or moved into free speech zones, explaining that even when they demonstrate in a “free speech zone,” they are supposed to sign up with the school and “cannot just go and demonstrate” freely.

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17 Comments on Handing out the constitution gets students threatened with arrest

  1. The officials threatening arrest need to be be taken to a public place and caned severely. There is an art to caning. I have made a small study of it. I humbly submit my services. Action not words.

  2. Oh how joyous tyranny is for power hungry, jack-booted thugs, ‘enforcing the rules!’ They come out of the woodwork like the maggots they are. Sent by their putrid commie administrators.

    HOW DARE ANYONE TRY TO GIVE THEIR ROBOTIC STUDENTS A CHOICE!

  3. Canning is a wonderful thing for those that don’t recognize and we’re never taught the meaning of the wonderful word NO when they were young. It leaves a lasting impression upon their stubborn minds, one they can tell their friends about.

  4. My wife’s alma mater no less. It WAS one of the last bastions of conservatism in Western Michigan just out side Grand Rapids.

    I can tell you this will definitely hurt the school financially if they don’t straighten this shit out.

  5. No one should be demonstrating, protesting or otherwise making a public spectacle of themselves at universities or colleges. Go to class. Learn something real. We pay for that space so you can be educated. Do your opinionated activities off campus. Instructors, too. Especially instructors. Leave your opinions at home.

  6. I live in West Michigan and this is the first I’ve heard of this.

    West Michigan is fairly conservative. But, the bigger GR gets (because of the “Medical Mile”), the more liberal things are getting…..

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