Selected “Hate Speech”-related Events  DePaul University, late 2004 to spring 2006.

Several hate incidents including homophobic graffiti, verbal harassment, and two physical assaults against member of LGBT community.

Day of Protest in Student Center followed by Rally and March around campus to End Homophobia (organized by Spectrum and LGBTQA Student Services Office)

Cultural Center at DePaul sponsors a Lecture and Workshop by Ward Churchill.  Leading up to the event, Cultural Center receives harassing phone calls, emails, and threats, including a death threat against those associated with hosting the event.

DePaul Conservative Alliance holds an anti-affirmative action bake sale with a sign with prices corresponding to gender and racial identities:  White and Asian Men $1.00, White and Asian Women $0.75, Black, Hispanic and Native American Men $0.50; Black, Hispanic and Native American Women $0.25.  The Bake Sale is held across from the entrance to the Cultural Center.

Racist and Anti-Semitic Graffiti scrawled at the entrance of Richardson Library, Schmitt Academic Center, and 3 floors of University Hall (residence hall).

Prayer Vigil in response to graffiti. Info session for DePaul community followed in the student center. Both attended by Pres. Holtschneider, staff members of Student Affairs, and members of the DePaul community.

DePaul Conservative Alliance sponsors the Ultimate Warrior with a speech that referred to LGBT people as “queers” throughout the talk, including statements suggestions that “queers” are illegitimate and are equivalent to “pedophile” priests in the Catholic Church, that immigrants came to this country to “defecate” on America, and that “Jungle Bunnies” were to blame for AIDS in Africa, among many other homophobic, racist, and sexist comments.  At one point, in response to a question, he told a student to go and “masturbate at home.”

Cultural Center and Office of Institutional Diversity lead four weeks of conversation on the 2005 book, When Affirmative Action was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth Century America, by Ira Katznelson.

Forum on Diversity: Affirmative Action – A  Debate on Affirmative Action held.  Speakers: Dinesh D’Souza and Michael Eric Dyson; Facilitator: Laura Washington.  Sponsored by Office of the President, Institutional Diversity, and Academic Affairs.

Forum on Diversity: Free Speech in the University -- Speakers: Randall Kennedy and Ann Franke; Facilitator: Charles Suchar.  Sponsored by Office of the President, Institutional Diversity, and Academic Affairs.