Liberals threaten UT College Republican with death, racial slurs
By: Administrative Account | Source: The Thundering Herd
November 25, 2003 10:21AM EST

Sukhmani Singh Khalsa, an American Sikh and conservative columnist at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, was the subject of radical religious and ideological discrimination from the university-funded and liberal-dominated Issues Committee while the administration did nothing to respond. On November 13, Khalsa wrote his column to shed light on the lack of ideological diversity on UT's Issues Committee. The Issues Committee is responsible for bringing speakers to campus to help foster debate on various public policy topics. Unfortunately, this committee has become overwhelmed with liberal activists - in fact only three of its twenty-five members are conservatives. The Issues Committee selects its own new members - constantly recycling one liberal for another year after year.

"Let's wave the banner of "the Thinker" all over the city of Knoxville, on the library, on our cars, on the humanities bridge...and if you see one of those ragheads, shoot him right in the (expletive) face." - Justin Rubenstein, liberal activist on the UT Issues Committee "i probably spent more time thinking about what a little brat this guy is and what i would do to him given the chance--torture that would put the spanish inquisition to shame" - Owen, another liberal activist on the UT Issues Committee

According to Khalsa's article, "The speakers invited by the committee have been so overwhelmingly far left, sometimes anti-American, group of characters, including Scott Ritter, Howard Zinn, Ralph Nader and Sy Hersh. In Hersh's defense, he was literally the first Issues Committee event I had been to in a couple semesters where the speaker did NOT compare the United States to the Nazi party. Ritter and Zinn did this last semester, getting huge applause from the committee's regular audience." (Daily Beacon, 11/13/03)

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