I have been wondering what happened to the wacked out liberal students at Orange Coast College, who voted to get rid of the Pledge of Allegiance at their student government board meetings. Now we know the rest of the story, as the Daily Pilot has published an article in today’s paper, informing us that a teacher is circulating a petition to remove this awful board from office. Well done! Here is the Daily Pilot article in question:
Teacher seeks to oust college student leaders
Instructor circulates petition among OCC colleagues to remove board that voted to stop saying pledge.
The stars and stripes hang prominently in the boardroom, but the controversy over the student government at Orange Coast College hasn’t abated yet, as two recent petitions have gone around campus attempting to remove the student trustees from office.
According to a number of students and instructors, history instructor Susan Smith has circulated a petition among her colleagues calling for the removal of the student leaders who voted last month to stop saying the Pledge of Allegiance at their twice-weekly meetings. In addition, Christine Zoldos, the student body vice president who resigned last week, sent out a petition of her own before deciding to withdraw it.
The petitions marked the latest development in a conflict that started out as a spat in a boardroom and mushroomed quickly into a nationwide debate. On Nov. 6, the trustees voted to eliminate the pledge from their future agendas, saying it was irrelevant to their other business and made some students uncomfortable due to the words “under God.”
Even though the board voted two weeks later to restore the pledge, many still harbored resentment toward the trustees. Smith, whom a number of people identified as the author of the faculty petition, could not be reached for comment on Friday, but the window of her office displayed a computer printout of the pledge.
“I don’t know of anyone else who’s circulating it,” said student body President Lynne Riddle.
Biology instructor Dennis Kelly said he’s seen the petition but has refused to sign it, since he felt the trustees should not be penalized for exercising their freedom of speech.”I didn’t feel it was something that we should be doing to these students based on the facts of what happened,” Kelly said. “In a way, it’s going way beyond punishing them for something they decided to do in a legally assembled body. They did it up front and in public, and they’ve undone it since then.
“There’s been a lot of misinformation put out about this, that
How boring.
*YAWN*