Cory Schroeder, Army veteran and undergraduate student at the University of Wyoming, wanted to start school meetings with the Pledge Of Allegiance, but was told he couldn’t as it might be offensive to the international students.
Yes, the University of Wyoming is still located inside the United States.
An Army veteran attending University of Wyoming was told that as a senator in its student government he should not say the Pledge of Allegiance before meetings. The reason: It might offend international students.
“Multiple senators sat me down and said it was a ‘very touchy subject’ and ‘we don’t want to offend anybody,’” former Army Staff Sgt. Cory Schroeder told the education watchdogCampus Reform Tuesday.
The veteran was told that if he wasn’t happy with the Associated Students of the University of Wyoming (ASUW) government’s decision, he could write a bill to allocate 20 seconds at the be
if the International students don’t like it then they can go home !!!!!!!!!!!!! This is OUR Country !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m offended we are even schooling international students!
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
tags: americanism, immigration, patriotism, xenophobia 130 likes
Anyone offended can go back where they came from!
I’m offended that saying the pledge of allegiance is offensive to people that have no right to be offended!
for all you professors shut the $#%&!@* up this is america if you dont like it get the $#%&!@* out with all the foreign students
offended,hell your paying for it ! .I am so tired of all the people that come to this country to get away from theirs and then try to turn OUR country into what they left…..wtf ? If they don’t like OUR ways and laws then GO HOME…how simple is that….I am a American And I am offended that our government and school want to change OUR ways for people whom are getting a FREE education off of OUR tax dollars and then want to bitch about OUR traditions …I am sorry but go home..see what your country does for YOU !!!!!!!
More BS people. This $#%&!@* distracts us from what the real problems are. WAKE UP
this is the united states , go home if you don’t like of rules
I am a US citizen and this offends me. Do I file my lawsuit with the school or the state???