Why Is Cal State Sponsoring “Radical” Conventions At All?
UTHOR: Just Some Poor Scmuck DATE: 1/21/2003 05:56:00 PM —– BODY: ‘Radical’ Activists Hide Behind Closed Doors When we first wrote in December about Cal State Fresno’s upcoming “Radical Environmentalism” conference, we had no idea that public scrutiny would force the event’s participants to hide behind the University’s skirts. Shortly after we broke this news, the Washington Times picked up on the event, starting a miniature firestorm a continent away in Fresno. The result? The public university’s deanery is doing its best to keep the press and the taxpayers — who, after all, pay for the University’s programs — out of the February event. A Cal Sate Fresno statement made available last week says merely: “The event is not open to the public.” Fresno’s agricultural producers are, quite understandably, worried about welcoming a roundtable of terrorist sympathizers into their community, especially because the dean of Fresno State’s agriculture school is calling the event “unbelievably
