Kutztown Blues in the Red

When the preachers came to town and President Cevallos had them arrested way back on April of 2007, they did not know that President Cevallos, with this $202,595 per year salary, was working for a University suffering financial woes. They just came to campus to do, at no charge, what they believed they were commissioned by God to do: preach the Word.

They did not know that the Early Learning Center (a virtual on campus nursery) was about to be eliminated and that faculty members had the size of their classes tripled over the previous half-dozen years. They just came to preach the word to an audience of students who presumably are in time in their lives when they study and think about matters of philosophy, religion, and ethics. And so they preached about those things, especially those relevant subjects of death and sex.

They did not know that president's career was on the rocks as sometimes happens in such circumstances. Or did it fall hard on hard times after he opposed those who preached about the Rock?

Certainly the legal fees which the University must pay out following the suspension of the campus police officer for failing to arrest the preachers did not ingratiate President Cevallos with the provost officer and others. Nor did the legal fees paid out in consequence of the lawsuits filed following the arresting of the preachers help move the University out of the red.

Faculty union president Dr. Michael D. Gambone will call for a no-confidence vote against Cevallos at the faculty meeting at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 31 in the Student Union Building. Should a decision be made to take an official vote from the union, that vote "would take place at a meeting of 75 department representatives, which is set for 3:15 p.m. Feb. 14 on campus" ("Kutztown University trustees affirm support for president," Reading Eagle, January 25, 2008).

When the storms of life - or the judgment of God - blow, it is not a sign of good leadership to cast about for someone to blame, especially when some fault is to be found in the leader. In his September 24, 2007 letter to "Students, faculty and staff," President Cevallos said of the preachers:

Some of the visitors select college campuses because the sponsoring groups seek confrontation and the ensuing publicity. What often follows is a lawsuit charging that the demonstrators' civil liberties have been violated.

It is nothing but slander to impute such motives to those who come to preach. On what grounds does he accuse them of seeking "confrontation and the ensuing publicity"? On what grounds does he blame them for the lawsuit which he brought upon the University by his own unjust directive to a more Constitutionally wise campus policeman who disobeyed his unjust command?

The lack of confidence seems to be well earned. And Kutztown, foundering in the red, is singing the blues.

Uncle Raisin visits KU

Kutztown, PA First, let me respond to the memo statements by President Cevallos from September 24, about "demonstrators" on campus. As Cevallos suggests: http://www.kutztown.edu/about/presidential/statements/letters/demonstrations.aspx "Following any other course of action gives the demonstrators exactly what they seek: confrontation, publicity, and lawsuit potential." How does he know this? To the allegation of confrontation, I am confused why he would conclude this. When has this ever been problematic? Publicity? Surely, if Cevallos would have known the individuals as I did, he would know they all bore their own expense and went on their tour (KU being one of their stops) prayerfully and with demonstrable concern for those to whom they sought to minister. If results are any indicator, the "lawsuit potential" that supposedly crowns the groups motives, should be rethought as a business technique. Does Cevallos know how much monetary gain has resulted from any law suit? Has anyone from the group ever brought suit where there was not cause? For those times that suit has been brought, has it been a reasonable, or the only, course of action available? Even still, If Cevallos knew the answers to these questions he wouldn't draw the conclusion that implies a derogatory image of the "protestors." Secondly, it is my observation that this group is not properly labeled as "demonstrators" (or "protestors"). A "demonstrator" is AGAINST something; while this group seeks to exalt ideals, and advocated FOR, among other things, the humanity of the preborn children that are killed by abortion. This is a distinction that sheds a critical light on what the officials at KU are trying to do. Cevallos, and his associates, obfuscate and, with vice, wrongly paint the visitors as villains. This obfuscation leads me to my past point. What happened to the mantra; "I may not agree with you, but I will fight for your right to say it?" It is no wonder to this writer why KU (and by extension, Cevallos) has received a red light rating by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), see http://www.thefire.org/index.php/schools/1391?PHPSESSID= for details. The only experience I need to point to as affirmation of my point of view is the removal of most of the flyers I placed on cars in the parking lot drawing attention to this case story. Why the need to remove a flyer when the courts have stated over and over again that is legal expressive activity guaranteed by the 1st Amendment? Just what is Cevallos and KU afraid of? Uncle Raisin Editor

"Diversity" Means Do Not Tolerate Christian Preachers

Kutztown, PA Because most of the current students weren't even born by March 15, 1986, they will think the first time preachers were arrested on campus occurred this past April 18 - not true. March 15, 1986, Kutztown University: Arrest the Christian Preachers. On March 15, 1986, Valerie Hildebeitel, reported in The Morning Call that two men were arrested for "harassing" students. She cited a complaint by a Jew who felt "excluded." Indeed, the Message the preachers bring is that folks who go to hell are "excluded" from heaven. Is this doctrine "excluded" by the "diversity" doctrine? In fact, the doctrine preached by the Christians on campus is not simply one of exclusion of the wicked from heaven. There is much more, however, we'll save that for another time (too much Christian ethics might overload the modern reader.) One of the two men who preached the Message was Scott Catino. He earned a doctorate in 2003 at The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg. His thesis was on Italian Americans and the fascist experience in the United States from 1922-1941. One can imagine the inspiration he must have had from his experience with the anti-Christian fascism of Kutztown. It was alive in 1986, and it is still alive today. Kutztown University: Where Truth and People Get Snuffed Out Prior to the Kyle Quinn murder, the last murder in town had occurred back in 1982. The one previous to that was in 1968. There had never been a Kutztown student murdered. In the face of these recent student tragedies, we must look at the responsibility of the University leadership and the atmosphere they set (think "Thirsty Thursday's"). A December 19, 2005 press release from the F.B.I reported on crime rates from January to June of that year, noting an increase in murder rates in smaller towns:

Reported instances of murder increased 2.1 percent nationwide, with the largest increase (13 percent) in cities having fewer than 10,000 inhabitants...

Maybe this is part of a small town trend. If this trend is the result of "tolerance" and "diversity", I'm moving to the big city! However, that would be the easy way out, and wouldn't solve anything. We say, LET'S TAKE OUR CULTURE BACK!!! After all, the current message of "tolerance" and "diversity" has been inculcated into the big city culture much longer than in small town America. For us, taking the culture back involves public heralding of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Kyle Quinn: 19 Years Young, murdered by Beating Kyle Quinn's murderers were apprehended and are being held on $10 million bond each, having beaten young Kyle to death on September 7, 2007. Having completed an autopsy, and awaiting toxicology reports, no cause of death is evident, and no motive for the murder can be found. It is being called "Random violence." "Random?" Hmmmmmmm... The murderers were in a drunken state, and decided for some reason (rational or not) to beat this young man senseless. Random, has always seemed like a cop-out answer to me. All actions come from some motive. All actions are rooted in some thinking. Are we so reticent to simply call murder "evil" that we white-wash it and sanitize it in the language of "random?" Let's just call it what it is - EVIL. Christopher Reynolds: Killed on Train Tracks Even though Christopher Reynolds was not murdered, the motive for his death is still important to understand. His death is a metaphor: so intoxicated he can't see the danger speeding toward him. Why would a bright young man engage in such dangerous and harmful behavior as to drink himself into a stupor and engage in a fight with a train? William Shehata: Accidental Death on I-80 William J. Shehata, 20, of Scranton was killed Aug. 19 when the sport utility vehicle in which he was riding skidded out of control on a rain-slicked section of Interstate 80 in Lamar Township, Clinton County, according to the Centre Daily Times of State College. Recent Deaths: 2004 - 2006 Eight Kutztown University students died in 2006, five in 2005, and six in 2004, mostly in vehicle crashes. Preachers Hold the Answers The current philosophy on Kutztown's campus is to live for self. Indeed, there's nothing bigger than you. "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die" (for some, literally). While we feel sorrow, and mourn for fellow students and friends lost, let's be reminded that these actions are the consequence of thinking - they come from someplace. Is it possible to learn from them and not consider the Gospel message that is being driven off of campus? We think not. It is an old message in a new age. It is a message that preaches self sacrifice instead of self-indulgence. It is a message that preaches others are more important than self - Christ's actions exemplary. Indeed, this message holds the remedy and hope for our times. The Atmosphere Created by the University Just like on April 18, when Christian gospel preachers (sponsored by Repent America) were arrested and driven off of campus, so too were ministers from California-based Survivors threatened with arrest, on Monday, September 24, 2007. This time, the preachers were surrounded by a group of "tolerant" bigots, which carried umbrellas and opened them up to block out the Message. Moreover, campus Police Chief Mioskie urged the Survivor group to leave, suggesting they had no right to be on the property, and declared that he would consult with a district attorney concerning the lawfulness of making arrests, according to Kortney Blythe, spokesman for Survivors. President Cevallos, Good Cop - Deryl Johnson, Bad Cop In a letter to students, faculty and staff, written Sept 24, 207, President Cevallos acknowledges:

"...regardless of whether we agree, as individuals or community, with the demonstrators' messages - (KU) recognizes the Constitutional rights of all parties."

Contrast Presidents Cevallos' (good-cop) posture with the KU Daily Brief for September 25 by Prof Deryl Johnson (bad-cop): "Were you curious about the use of umbrellas on campus on Monday? Would you like to learn how someone can respond non-violently and non-confrontationally to outside groups protesting on campus? Come hear Blaise Liffick and Alanna Berger speak about the Silent Witnesses Program in PA on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 4:30 p.m. in 203 Academic Forum." Leah M. Cassellia, Associate Director, S.U.I.S. (more bad-cop?) "Where Free Speech Ends and Harassment Begins" Angry? Confused when outsiders come to campus with their signs and bullhorns? Get informed and prepared. Join the Kutztown University community for a discussion about the best ways to handle campus protests on Thursday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. in the McFarland Student Union Multipurpose Room. Presented by Brett A. Sokolow, J.D., risk management consultant, author and higher education attorney. Now a consultant is needed; to do what? Didn't Cevallos just say the Preachers have a right to be on campus? Even so, we have to ask why Chief Mioskie urged the Survivor group to leave? Perhaps he was still operating under the illusion that Cevallos administered last April, and that he is using Johnson and Cassellia to administer now. Free Speech at KU? Nah! Not yet. Apparently there hasn't been enough students meet their maker yet for Cevallos to take his high calling seriously. President Cevallos, stop the hypocrisy!

"Diversity" Propaganda

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A source employed by the Kutztown University who spoke to UncleRaisin.com on condition of anonymity advises that the University has been training the campus police in "diversity" and "sensitivity" training paid for by a grant from Home Land Security Department. Understandably, security has been increased in the wake of 9-11 and the Virginia Tech murders. However, the training focuses errantly upon the wrong causes when it seeks to prevent "violence." The supposition is that the promotion "tolerance" is the key to peace on campus. (The ethical framework defining good and evil is left to the imagination or, rather, the guidance of the tolerance mongers who hold to no Commandment from God and therefore cannot discriminate between right and wrong.)

"Diversity" is a buzz word that suggests to the generally liberal mind that it is good and right to treat all kinds of people (from all places of the world with its varying racial variety and mixes) respectfully with the dignity and rights afforded to human beings because of well, and this is where the liberal mind trips up the fact that human beings are created in the image of God. The problem is that the modern "liberal" is also an atheist, politically speaking. He does not believe that the God of the West (the God of Christianity) has revealed Law which a modern body politic ought to acknowledge. The political arena is believed, by this ideology, to be off limits to God and His Law.

Diversity then involves not simply the doctrine that all races of human beings qua humans possess inherent dignity. Rather, the concept is wrenched and reshaped to apply to behavior and allegedly immutable characteristics (viz. sexual incontinence or deviancy). Moreover, and prior on the evolving social time-chart, distinction is sexual roles are also abolished for the sake of radical egalitarian principles extrapolated from this wrenched doctrine of human dignity.

A case in point is the fact that most of the violence which erupts at the University proceeds out of the dances where an observer can witness "gangsta rap," simulated sexual activity, nearly naked dancers, participants with drugs in their pockets, and drunk DJs. This morally degenerate and immoral behavior is not censured but tolerated in the name of "diversity," "sensitivity," and "tolerance." Since the University has no moral standard which finds fornication and lascivious behavior to be immoral, it must tolerate such perversion. Ethical concerns are shifted to enforce the First of the new Commandments, "Thou shalt respect all the gods," and second, like unto the first, "Thou shalt tolerate . . . (any form of sexual deviancy)."

The new moralizing is a matter of teaching students to tolerate what is Immoral and to be intolerant of any one who Moralizes against another. The new morality supplants the old. Christian sexual Morality is to be kept in the closet. Perversion must be brought out of the closet and respected.

In the diversity and sensitivity training the class is guided to the goal of reducing "bigotry" (read: Christian opposition to sexual immorality). The training given to the campus police involves role-playing by which a policeman plays the role of a homosexual who is being harassed by "intolerant bigots" - Christians. In this fashion he can learn how to be sensitive to the abused group and to be more understanding of the need to arrest the "hater." Repent America was named as "hot group," a cause of conflict, which the university might need to remove to keep the peace.

A training segment designed by the Department of Justice designates Repent America, specifically, as "a fundamentalist hate group." The seminar leader directed the class in the goal of removing the "hot group" from the seen in order to keep the peace and resolve the "conflict."

While participating in one of these training sessions, Cpl. Armbruster was observed to stand up and object, declaring, "I have had enough of this. They have a right to be there."

Whence comes this "Diversity" Training?

The National Coalition Building Institute (www.ncbi.org) is one of the training organizations contracted to train campus officials. Both Robert Watrous, Director of Judicial Affairs and Campus Chief of Police Bill Mioskie are certified by NCBI and have trained police and other administrators. The three "core principles" are 1) addressing "diversity issues" and the elimination of "prejudice and discrimination" which includes "prejudice" on the basis of "sexual orientation"; 2) providing personal testimony from those victimized by "racist and other prejudicial attitudes" [emphasis ours and let the reader understand the reference to be to those who believe sodomy is immoral behavior] in order to build sympathy and promote alliances between sympathizers and the victim; 3) respect for those leaders who promulgate these principles.

The University's Code of Civility¹ binds students to commit to the essentially same philosophy preached by the NCBI. The Code of Civility calls all students to a "code of appropriate behavior." The reader is never give a definition of "appropriate behavior" but the effort to describe it is laced with the familiar buzzwords straight out of the lexicon of the Left: diversity, acceptance, bigotry, harassment, prejudice. Gone from the "code" is any semblance of the four cardinal classical and Christian virtues, viz. temperance, prudence, justice, and fortitude. And even if these ancient virtues were resurrected, their meaning would be ever changing, evolving with the Left's neo-pagan ethics.

To speak of a code without any reference to a divine Law is to speak of tyranny. Appeals to "diversity," "acceptance," and "prejudice" beg the question; "By what standard?"

Are those who call for "tolerance" and "acceptance" and who denounce "prejudice" applying this principle to Communists, Nazis, Aztecs, and KKK wizards? By what standard these ideologues to be judged? By what standard is a Leftist to be judged?

And so the University, which does not even believe in the concept the One Truth from which its very name derives, blows in the wind of whatever pop sociology and evolving "law" happens to be breathed out by the latest judicial appointees. And the judicial appointees get their ethics not from any divine Law but from whatever is in vogue. They divine from public opinion - especially as shaped by the "progressives," the political Left - that which seems "just," and so the begged question remains. The finally authority is the evolving opinions of people. It is not God, nor His Law. There is no transcendent, permanent Law or ethic. There is no enduring right or wrong. All ethics are in flux, like the evolving universe.

Kutztown University's Code of Civility expects its students to pledge accordingly: "I shall appreciate diversity and encourage its acceptance by others; "I shall nourish the development of a society in which bigotry, harassment, prejudice, and hatred of any kind is not tolerated"²

The University's trendy embrace of "tolerance" says that it is in pursuit of a society in which "hatred" (how about of evil?) will not be tolerated. Surely good and justice cannot be loved without its opposite being hated. May the good students not be prejudiced against evildoers? And, if this be tolerable, which are the evildoers? Nazis? Cannibals? Race baters? Pedophiles? Pederasts? Catamites? Sodomites? Though the University's definition of good and evil is not clearly stated, it is easily inferred. An examination of the student organizations that it tolerates and promotes signifies its Lawlessness and its embrace of the Left's transitory moral code.

The GLBTQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans-gender, and Questioning)³ student organization, listed as an official organization of Kutztown University, has two faculty members who serve as bona fide "allies" - what was formerly called a "sponsors" of the organization. Anke Walz and Dr. Deryl B. Johnson are faculty advisors who serve as "allies" seeking to enlist more of the same from the student and faculty population. "Allies is a group of concerned students, faculty and staff who are dedicated to providing a safe and cooperative environment for gay, lesbian and bisexual persons and their straight friends."⁴ This University-sponsored organization states one of its purposes to be to "increase" the "acceptance of GLBTH persons and issues and to create and insure cooperation and unity among the Kutztown University community." (Curiously, the "H" refers not to homosexsuals but to heterosexuals who wish to identify themselves as sympathetic "allies" in the achievement of the goals.) The fifth among the stated goals is: "Maintain a safe space environment to nurture and support student leadership development and campus activities to reduce homophobia."⁵

On the fair assumption that the University supports the organization which it houses in its Office of Human Diversity, it is fair to conclude that the University stands in support of this goal to suppress or reduce "homophobia."⁶ Those who hold the "old Christian ethic" which regards sodomy as an odious crime punishable by death according to the Scriptures (or castration according to, for example, the more liberal Thomas Jefferson⁷) must by discouraged in their beliefs so that they and their beliefs may be "reduced."

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notes:

1 http://www.thefire.org/pdfs/6be57553e37ec4d280f3d00f01c32b85.pdf (on site 19 June 2007). 2 Ibid. 3 The GLBTQ is part of the Office of Human Diversity, 15 Stratton Administration Building,P.O. Box 730 Kutztown. PA 19530. 4 http://www.kutztown.edu/glbtqcenter/purpose_goals.asp (on site 19 June 2007). 5 Ibid. 6 The political neologism was invented as a propaganda tool of the avant-garde "homosexual rights" and has appeared as early as 1976 in the American Heritage Dictionary and defined as "fear of homosexuals or homosexuality." The employment of the term serves the purpose of shifting conventionally understood deviancy in the sodomite from him to the one who despises the loathsome practice and practitioner of sodomy. That which is still listed as a crime in most state law codes has been transformed into an "alternative lifestyle" against which critics thereof all manner of isolation and shunning is brought to bear by the authorities of academe. 7 Philip Kurland and Ralph Lerner,"A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments," The Founders' Constitution, (University of Chicago Press, 1987), vol. 5, Amendment VIII, doc. 10, p. 375. Jefferson's recommendation regarding Amendment VIII: "Whosoever shall be guilty of Rape, Polygamy, or Sodomy with man or woman shall be punished, if a man, by castration, if a woman, by cutting thro' the cartilage of her nose a hole of one half inch diameter at the least."