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Listener: Pratt on Texas
Category: General
Date: 27 Nov 2007
Time: 16:31:00 -0700
Remote Name: 67.135.7.49
Here's the story behind the posters. The attachment is the poster. (poster
coming soon)
At LCU there's a group called "Arms Against War." This is a group of people who
wear white armbands in protest of all wars but especially the war in Iraq. They
have met on campus at LCU and held prayer vigils to pray against the war and for
peace.
Jeremy Arnold, a student at LCU and fellow member of Army ROTC, thought there
should be raised awareness and support for those who don't agree with the "Arms
Against War" group. So he put up these "Pray for Victory" posters (see
attachment). Jeremy went to the student affairs at LCU and asked permission to
hang up these posters across Campus. All posters were reviewed and given a stamp
of approval by LCU before any were posted on campus. After he had put several
posters in every building across campus for two days he came back to campus to
find that most of his posters had been pulled down. Of those left up all but
three had graffiti all over them attributing his poster to evil dictators and
claiming his poster endorsed murder. . So Jeremy went back to the student
affairs office with more posters to get stamped and replace the ones that had
been torn down and gratified on.
The Student affairs said they could no longer give their approval to put up any
more posters. Apparently some professors had voiced opposition to the posters
and some students went to the student senate with complaints. The complaints
were against the pictures of soldiers carrying weapons and the phrase "pray that
they achieve victory" in the poster. So Jeremy began asking who he should go see
about getting his posters put back up. A meeting was then set up between the
President of Student Affairs, Vice President of Student Affairs, Jeremy, Myself
(Daniel Ridley), and the Dr. who had first voiced opposition to the poster.
Between this time and the meeting some students began putting up posters with
pictures of malnourished kids in foreign countries with sayings such as, "Love
your enemies," and "Pray for those who persecute you." Jeremy has said since his
posters were first being pulled down that if people didn't agree with his poster
they should put up their own poster right next to his; or they could just be
adults and ignore his poster. These posters with the pictures of the kids on
them did not have the stamp of approval from LCU so after we brought the poster
to the attention of the student affairs office they began to be taken down.
At the meeting the Dr. that opposed the posters said he believes that LCU was
wrong in taking down the posters after they had approved them because it
displays a double standard, but that he believes that they shouldn't have been
put up in the first place. The President of Student Affairs said the reason they
took the posters down was because they were being gratified on and that it is
standard procedure to take down posters that have been drawn on. Jeremy asked if
he could then put up more clean posters to which they answered no. Jeremy said
he wouldn't mind taking down gratified posters and putting up new ones everyday
if he needed to but his offer was again rejected. The Student affairs office
wants him to reword his poster so that it can be properly displayed. Jeremy said
the poster is already properly displayed and that he wasn't going to reword the
poster. So as of now the student affairs has said that they would rather not
give us permission to put up posters, "We're not saying no." is what they said,
"but we'd rather not." Well we can't put them up until they give us permission
so they are saying no.
LCU is showing a double standard by allowing the "Arms Against War group to have
meetings on campus but won't allow the pray for victory posters to be displayed
on campus.
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