Sunday, September 25, 2016

Just who "stepped on" free speech in the SOCCCD? Will YAF be truthful?

From the chapter's Facebook Page.
     Saddleback College's YAF ("Young Americans for Freedom") club—not sure what its standing is these days—has a Facebook Page.
     Here's something interesting I found on it today, evidently posted on Thursday:


     I gather that the chapter is sponsoring an initiative to "amend BP and AR 8000," the district's "speech and advocacy" policies, which were adopted about a dozen years ago.
     The YAF chapter says it "will be educating and informing students and faculty about the speech restrictions." I wonder if these YAF kids will acknowledge that the authors of these speech-limiting policies (AR 8000 etc.) were conservative Republicans and not "liberal" academics?  
     They will if they have a drop of integrity. 
     Let's see. 

SEE Students Sue District over 1st Amendment (DtB, April 15, 2002)

They stand for freedom. But do they stand for honesty?
     BACKGROUND: the YAF chapter posted the following back on the 8th:


     According to this post, the "full story" is at The Young America’s Foundation website, where we're told that the professor's action "is a perfect example of the way schools, and radical leftist professors like Lovett, leverage their bureaucracies to limit students’ right to free speech." Nowhere does the article note that the professor was enforcing district policy. 
     The article also reports that Saddleback College "attempted to block the YAF chapter’s 9/11 memorial earlier this week." Again, nowhere are we told that the memorial was "blocked" owing to the YAF kids' failure to turn in the needed forms to become an active club.
     The local YAF chapter has generated this and other misleading stories and, as near as I can tell, has done nothing to disabuse organizations of their errors. Nothing that has happened to these YAF kids reflects professor Lovett's politics. The unwanted events—"blocking" of the special YAF 9-11 event and Lovett's removal of posters—were the result of the kids' failures to follow the rules, including those established by conservative Republican trustees.

Tomorrow's board meeting

     The agenda can be found HERE.   
     Open session starts at 6:30.
     There'll be the usual reports, including, of course, the IVC report and the Saddleback College report.
     Burnett's report mentions SC's 9-11 event and student Audra Leslie of YAF:


     The Discussion Item is 4.1: SOCCCD: Legislative and Advocacy Overview
  • Presenters will be Tere Fluegeman, Executive Director of Public and Government Affairs,
  • Mark MacDonald, State Legislative Advocate from McCallum Group Inc., and
  • Dana DeBeaumont, Federal Legislative Advocate from Capitol Advocacy Partners
     Here are some slides from their presentation:

This one's called "Who we are"



Full-time and Part-time, eh?

Item 6.1 of General Items is "Agreement for Chancellor Search Consultant Services with Professional Personnel Leasing, Inc." About $30K.

Item 6.5 is "ATEP IVC First Building Project, Change Order No. 1, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. Approve Board Change Order No. 1 for the ATEP IVC First Building project and authorize staff to execute the corresponding change order with the design-build contractor resulting in an increase of $1,268,345 for a revised contract amount of $17,553,345 and add 15 days for a revised contract completion date of November 24, 2017."

Under "reports" is item 7.2: "2017 Teacher of the Year Recognition Ceremony Information on OC Teachers of the Year program. The nominees being honored from SOCCCD are Claire Cesareo, Anthropology Professor from Saddleback College and Rebecca Beck, ESL Professor from Irvine Valley College."

Item 7.3 is "Technology Plan Accept for review and study the proposed SOCCCD Technology Plan." Here's the presentation.

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