UCLA Students for Academic Freedom
SAF in the News:
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| Defending Ward Connerly, By Any Means Necessary By Andrew Jones FrontPageMagazine.com, November 28, 2003 When a far-Left student group tried to oust Ward Connerly from his position as a Regent in the University of California system, Students for Academic Freedom stepped up to the plate at UCLA and proved that conservatives can get their message heard, even on a P.C. campus. |
Students call for Connerly’s resignation By Charles Proctor UCLA Daily Bruin, November 20, 2003 The movement also drew counter-protesters who said they were defending Connerly's right to academic freedom and expression. "There's nothing in the (regents') job description that says he can't have a political opinion," said Kendra Carney, president of UCLA Students for Academic Freedom. "Especially when it's related to academics, that should be encouraged." |
BAMN wants Connerly out By Hoorig Santikian UCLA Daily Bruin, November 17, 2003 Kendra Carney, president of UCLA Students for Academic Freedom, said the coalition is defending Ward Connerly because it believes he has a right to have his own political opinion. "(Connerly) has been at all times deserving of his position. ... There is no reason why the university shouldn't be open to a more conservative view," she said. |
Affirmative
action backers push for Connerly's ouster By Steve Miller The Washington Times, November 29, 2003 "Ward Connerly has done nothing but serve as he should, as an advocate for students," said Kendra Carney, president of the University of California at Los Angeles chapter of Students for Academic Freedom. "There are many students who do not support affirmative action. People are demanding his resignation simply because he doesn't support affirmative action, but it is not wrong to disagree with that practice." |
Dueling students rally over Connerly A group of students who plan to rally today to demand the ouster of Ward Connerly from the University of California Board of Regents will be met by a counter rally from a dueling group of students who've formed to defend Connerly from what they feel is an unjust charge. "We're clearly a reactionary group," said Kendra Carney, a member of the Coalition to Defend Ward Connerly, which she said was created about six weeks ago in response to another student group's effort to remove Connerly from the board. |
Additional Materials of Note:
| Coalition
to Defend Ward Connerly Press Release Los Angeles, CA – On Wednesday, November 12, UCLA Students for Academic Freedom president Kendra Carney announced the formation of a new campus group, The Coalition to Defend Ward Connerly. The group is a response to the immoral and unethical recall effort launched against University of California Regent Ward Connerly by the notoriously violent radical left Berkeley campus group “The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action and Integration by Any Means Necessary.” BAMN’s Berkeley chapter will be invading the UCLA campus for the November 19 UC Regents meeting to hold anti-Connerly rallies at 8 am and noon at the Covel Commons site of the meeting. |
Letter of
Notice to UCLA Administration “Student security” was a disaster last year, given that the “security” was at all times an aggressor and throughout the event acted not as a neutral peacemaker but as a partisan force against the students who opposed the anti-war agenda. Dean Naples himself expressed serious reservations about the concept of “student security” at a meeting with concerned students last year, and furthermore, we have given you formal notice of our request that student security not be permitted. There should be no further need to dwell on this topic. |
Original
FrontPageMag.com Article Our Coalition resolved to take our fight to two levels - first, to speak out in condemnatory terms during the public comment period of the Regents meeting, 8:30 am sharp that Wednesday morning. But in recognition that the actual substance of the recall request was inevitably doomed, we also resolved to meet BAMN and the UCLA group joining the effort, the "Affirmative Action Coalition," on the field of public protest. |
Speech
by Kendra Carney to UC Board of Regents Thanks to Regent Connerly, I was not forced to degrade myself by engaging in the minstrelsy of affirmative action while applying as a high school senior. I was spared the need of doing a personal soft-shoe between the racial categories of “white” and “Native American.” I am neither of these things, I am myself. |
Speech
by Chris Moritz to UC Board of Regents Today, in complete disruption of the important business of the UC Regents, a radical, violent, and leftist organization known as BAMN has decided to place an honorable man, UC Regent Ward Connerly, “on trial” before his fellow Regents. Might I suggest, in the collegial spirit of our UCLA campus, that if BAMN likes placing the microscope on Regent Connerly so much, that they shouldn’t object to my placing a microscope upon their organization. |