Saddleback College removes 9/11 posters upsetting conservative students who put up the memorial

[TexasTowelie]

MISSION VIEJO – The removal of student posters remembering the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks from a campus building has sparked debate at Saddleback College.

Last week, members of a conservative student group, Young Americans for Freedom, held a weekday remembrance for the victims of 9/11, placing miniature flags on the quad’s lawn and putting up posters in free-speech areas as well as on a building without administrative approval.

Margot Lovett, chairwoman of Saddleback’s history department and a professor of women’s and gender studies, took down the posters Thursday morning, a school official acknowledged.

The posters read “9/11 Never Forget,” with images of the twin towers and other terrorist attacks since then. The students filmed Lovett on a cellphone and put the footage on YouTube, where it had collected about 175,000 views.

Read more: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/posters-728831-saddleback-school.html

[Eleanors38]

1. Saddleback should remember those obscure demonstrations 52 years ago at Berkeley.

I think it was part of something called the Free Speech Movement.