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EIU Faculty Senate OKs measures
related to Chick-fil-A controversy
Journal Gazette and Times-Courier, by Samantha Bilharz *
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Posted By:flyingdc, 10/3/2012 9:42:36 AM
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CHARLESTON — The Faculty Senate at Eastern Illinois University on Tuesday approved three resolutions related to issues involving Chick-fil-A. A fourth measure — supporting the ouster of the restaurant chain’s site on campus — failed on a 3-6 vote, with five abstentions. Proposed by Faculty Senate member Stacey Knight-Davis, it stated: “...Faculty Senate supports the non-renewal of the current Chick-fil-A agreement.”
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Comments:
*and Penny Weaver
The Chick-fil-A logo has been deemed a symbol of hate speech. Still awaiting the senate's decision on rainbow flags.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
GreatGreyhounds, 10/3/2012 9:47:47 AM (No. 8906380)
Mrs Greyhounds graduated from this University. The current fund raising letter from them will be returned empty, except for a note on the reason why...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 10/3/2012 9:52:32 AM (No. 8906388)
“Whereas the current Chick-fil-A controversy has altered the campus climate ..."
No, Stacy, there is no "controversy" - except in your narrow little mind.
No, Stacy, Chick-fil-A hasn't "altered the campus climate" - except in your narrow little mind.
FTA: Another approved resolution asks that Chick-fil-A’s contract at Eastern’s Martin Luther King Jr. University Union be either renegotiated every year or that the retail space be subject to open bidding.
Some real business geniuses there at EIU (Mrs. Baseball Fan's alma mater). What retailer is going to want to lease space for just one year? A typical retail space of 1,500 SF can take 3 months to build out - leaving them a whopping 9 months before they're forced to renew or leave? Oh - wait - these are faculty members - they don't burden themselves with reality.
And the abstentions - I see there are some Obamanauts at EIU, though that's no real surpise.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jimmiet, 10/3/2012 10:02:41 AM (No. 8906421)
I now eat at Chick fil-A once a week. The store is full, the service is great and Mr Cathy is raking in the cash to the glory of Jesus Christ. Thank you very much. Amen.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
pinger, 10/3/2012 10:09:16 AM (No. 8906435)
The irony is that they have no idea how few places they would have to trade, spend their dollars, and patronize if they knew the politics of all those decision makers within the corporations.....
Bottom line....if you don't like Chick Fil-a's politics or moreover, don't like its 1st amendments rights being allowed to exist....eat at Burger King.
These are the people that the university system is going to turn loose on society to torture the sane among us....
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jethro bo, 10/3/2012 10:09:43 AM (No. 8906438)
So now a company is a symbol of hate. But hate organizations (New Black Panthers) gets a pass. By the way, EIU has an endowment of just over 33 million bucks in 2009 that ranked EIU as 602 among endowments. Harvard was number 1 at 25.6 billion dollars. So this isn't a successful university at generating donations. One wonders how insulting Christians will go over when it comes to improving that endowment. The President of the University would do well to tell the faculty Senate to worry more about producing competent students and less on money killing proclamations.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Mr. Hanky, 10/3/2012 10:12:38 AM (No. 8906451)
I think the faculty should have better things to worry about than a sandwich shop. Seriously.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rather Read, 10/3/2012 10:12:53 AM (No. 8906452)
There's a lesbian prof on the campus where I work who called for a boycott of Chick-fil-A until someone asked her how she'd like it if her pub was boycotted because she is gay.
Chick-fil-A is going strong and her pub is still in business as both should be.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ghost of hallelujah, 10/3/2012 10:21:39 AM (No. 8906479)
Time for your two-minute Hate EIU
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
happy conservative, 10/3/2012 10:57:15 AM (No. 8906569)
I think it's time for another Love Chick-Fil-A Day in America! We eat there all the time anyway because we love the food, but this just makes me want to support them all the more.
Chicago, used to be a big town--but now it's filled with small minds. The smallest is now Pre...oh,oh, might be deemed hate speech, better not say it!
Cheers to the best chicken sandwiches and homespun shakes in town!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
toddh, 10/3/2012 11:06:45 AM (No. 8906584)
Universities are symbols of hate.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
oriton, 10/3/2012 12:56:53 PM (No. 8906872)
Students of universities and public schools UNITE! You don't have to stand for any of this...Rise UP!
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