I thought you might find this interesting. All freshman at UTM have a MANDATORY assembly every Wednesday this semester, this is known as "Freshman Studies". What I understood this class to be and it was today is very different.
This class was developed to help incoming freshman learn their way around the campus, activities on campus, and to just learn about the college experience period.
Well today State Senator Roy Herron, a Liberal Democrat Lawyer from Dresden, came to address over 1200 freshman, most 18 year old first time voters.
He began by telling a joke that no one laughed at and then proceeded to say that there is a bias in media coverage and like Fox news it is not fair or balanced. I assumed here that he meant that the media was bias toward McCain, what!
The next sentence out of his mouth was that the media makes a big deal of associations that Obama has with a man who is like 70 or 80 years old that did some bad things when Obama was 8 years old.
But he said "Jesus hung out with prostitutes and thieves." He is comparing, on the same level, Obama and Jesus.
At this point another student and I stood straight up and walked out. Many followed and many that I have spoken to are angry. I and others are going to complain to the university that our tuition does not pay for a politician to come and make stump speeches during our MANDATORY class time. Especially when it is not even a political science class.
This is the filth that covers our public campuses in TN and we need Conservative Representatives in Nashville to hold these institution accountable and see that these are places of higher learning and not indoctrination centers funded by tax dollars.
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