By: Diane Benjamin This Thursday could be a monumental day across the country! There is a Million Student March – ISU has a chapter. The local organizer is Zachary Braun, an employee at Walgreens and an ISU student. His LinkedIn account describes him as: Team Leader at Progressive Democrats of America What are they marching […]
By: Diane Benjamin If you are totally unfamiliar with the saga between ISU and my church, see this story: http://blnnews.com/2015/10/21/isu-destroying-free/ Last Sunday church leadership sent an email to ISU terminating the relationship. The church has now received an apology from an assistant to the President. But it gets better! Our Pastor talked with some of […]
By: Diane Benjamin Bloomington residents: Have you looked at the address you send water payments to? If you have the misfortune of taking a trip in an ambulance, and get billed for it – where does that payment go? Remember yesterday’s story about ISU? http://blnnews.com/2015/10/21/isu-destroying-free/ What do they all have in common? Illinois discourages business! […]
Don’t miss the latest update: http://blnnews.com/2015/10/28/new-update-concerning-isu/ My church Council voted to terminate any further action with ISU yesterday. We feel horrible for the little kids that could be helped, but government lawyers and churches are not a good combination. By: Diane Benjamin This is another lesson in limited government! Hopefully readers have figured out Limited […]
By: Diane Benjamin ISU has a long history of inviting leftist activists to campus. If an activist on the right has been invited, I missed it. Here is the latest: https://stories.illinoisstate.edu/university/media-relations/report/ferguson-civil-rights-activist-to-deliver-hibberts-r-roberts-lecture-october-15/ Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou is a minister. Is he going to leave his version of religion out of his speech? Would Franklin Graham be […]
By: Diane Benjamin I had hopes that only IWU was training kids to be offended: http://blnnews.com/2015/09/01/iwu-teaching-kids-to-be-offended/ Bureaucrats must be lacking work, ISU has joined the ‘microaggressions” cause to justify keeping their jobs. If any problems were solved they would be out of a job – so invent more injustice that needs fixing. Remember, IWU is […]
I emailed President Deitz for a comment, he passed it to Jay Groves who refused to comment by email. I’ve spoken to Jay twice on the phone. Here are his comments, as best as I could transcribe our conversations: 3 people from the same family working for Administration doesn’t violate ISU policy. Larry Lyons doesn’t […]
FIRE – Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Each month, FIRE singles out a particularly reprehensible campus speech code for our Speech Code of the Month designation. While all of 2012’s Speech Codes of the Month flagrantly violated students’ and faculty members’ right to free expression, two of them were so egregious that they deserve special mention […]
If you want to voice your opinion:, email: Jay Groves jrgrove@ilstu.edu Jay approved the contract. by Diane Benjamin http://illinoisstate.edu/president/speaker-series/fall-2012/jones.shtml See the above link. Van Jones will be speaking at Illinois State University for the Martin Luther King dinner 1/18/2013. He will be speaking about the ‘Greening’ of the US economy. The announcement leaves A […]
See original post from April 30th This email was sent to the contact person listed in the magazine: Susan, As a graduate of Illinois state I am appalled by the May issue. Two stories are at best left wing propaganda. The Occupy story says nothing about the true intent of the movement and it attempts […]
As a graduate of ISU, I receive a monthly magazine from the school. Normally it is filled with inspiring stories of alums and their accomplishments. The May 2012 edition has a story by Tom Nugent who is either pushing an agenda or is truly clueless. I am appalled the school printed an obviously biased and […]
