After undercover videos revealed that Planned Parenthood was selling baby parts I attended a rally with my fiancée, MacKenzie Dreeszen. MacKenzie posted a photograph of the protest outside of a Des Moines Planned Parenthood clinic resulting in immediate backlash from her sorority, Delta Phi Delta, at Cornell College.
MacKenzie is a fairly high profile conservative. After her “sisters” started claiming the videos they had not watched were false they drew commentary from high profile legislators and activists. It’s not surprising that recent college graduates lost a debate to seasoned legislators. It’s not surprising that a college group at a liberal arts college has a liberal bias.
But what happened next was surprising. About a week before homecoming, MacKenzie received a letter stating that her alumnae status had been revoked. They conducted an unprecedented action without her input and determined that because she did not defend them during a debate on which she disagreed with them that she had been disrespectful to her sisters. They voted to remove her status and to remove her from her “family line” at the sorority because she was Pro-Life. She contacted the college but they responded that they do not get involved in Greek disputes. The sorority is not national and the charter comes from the small, Iowa school where Democrat, David Loebsack remains on faculty as professor emeritus.
Had this been a black student removed from a sorority the college would have done something. Had this been a black student removed for joining the racist “Black Lives Matter” movement the college would have done something. Had this been a student who was removed from her sorority due to her affinity towards abortion the college would have done something. Since this was an action taken against a conservative they do not get involved with Greek disputes.
The Academy has maintained a long standing liberal bias. However, academia has long cherished maintaining institutions where views and values should be open to challenge. Students at Princeton locked themselves in the president’s office demanding that references to former school and US president, Woodrow Wilson, be removed from the grounds due to his “racism”. The school capitulated.
The Mizzou president resigned because of student complaints of “racism” that were unsubstantiated.
Schools now create environments they call “safe spaces” to reinforce to students that their views and biases are protected from challenge. If somebody disagrees with the students’ left wing values the school will protect them and help them shout down dissension.
This is college? We are straddling our kids with debt they will never be able to pay back to teach them to be too sensitive to live in this world. Somebody needs to step up and say that the Emperor has no clothes. And his naked trek has made it to Iowa.
-John Thompson, Jefferson
