Cornell Dean Says An ISIS Student Organization Would Be Welcome On Campus In This Undercover Video
A Cornell dean is the subject of a mini controversy after a video released by Project Veritas, a conservative media group, showed him sanctioning an ISIS student organization on campus.
In the video, assistant dean of students Joseph Scaffido explains to a journalist posing as a prospective Moroccan student that ISIS and Hamas would be welcomed as student organizations on the Cornell campus.
After being asked multiple questions about the privileges of an ISIS or Hamas support group, including sending care packages and hosting speakers, the undercover journalist asked if the group would be allowed to host an “ISIS training session” for interested students.
“You would be allowed to do something like that. It’s just like bringing in a coach, to do a training, a sports trainer or something,” the Cornell dean responded.
Scaffido described the college town of Ithaca to be very liberal and open to diversified opinions.
Here is the video:
“The university is not going to look at different groups and say, ‘You’re not allowed to support that group because we don’t believe them’ or something like that. I think it’s just the opposite. I think the university wants the entire community to understand what’s going on in all parts of the world,” he says.
Scaffido isn’t saying anything particularly inflammatory, but his attempts at being politically correct may have backfired a bit. Cornell released this statement about the video to the New York Post:
“Cornell fully supports the free exchange of ideas and does not review or control the political ideology of our students. We do not, of course, tolerate unlawful advocacy of violence, and the comment about training by ISIS freedom fighters does not reflect university policy.”
[via New York Post]
Image via YouTube
Fire this anti-American fuck immediately.
11 years ago at 1:53 pmFuckin latte sippin lefty
11 years ago at 1:55 pmI bet this guy is just a great example of the Peter Principle
11 years ago at 2:02 pmWhat a fucking moron. What happened to common sense? How does a man like this get into the position of authority that he’s in?
11 years ago at 2:10 pmWhat an asshat, if I were a Cornell student I’d pack my shit and exercise my own freedom of speech by giving this guy a huge go fuck yourself on the way out the door.
11 years ago at 2:25 pmSo greek life should be abolished because a few chapters at various schools have done some mildly bad things, while ISIS, one of the more violent groups in history, which is dedicated to hate and violence as a whole, would be welcome at universities?
11 years ago at 2:30 pmWelcome to political correct liberal America…P.S. your question is brilliant. I would love to see all the deans answer it.
11 years ago at 7:08 pmSo by his logic someone could start a KKK student group. But we all know how that would go. By the way, I’m in no way supporting the KKK. Just making a point.
11 years ago at 2:40 pm“Cornell fully supports the free exchange of ideas and does not review or control the political ideology of our students.”
11 years ago at 3:13 pm.
Bull. Shit. If a Cornell student attempted to start a Christian Dominionist or White Supremacist student group on campus, he’d be expelled within a week. Everyone knows this is true.
This limp dick bitch is worthless.
11 years ago at 3:30 pmI think this dude just sees another broken-english speaking foreigner coming to his office for some bullshit request. He doesn’t pick up on “Islamic State” or “Hamas.” While I hate anything or anybody with positive feelings towards ISIS, this poor guy just looks like its 5 minutes past the time he should have been chowin’ on a footlong meatball sub and a bag of french fries for lunch.
11 years ago at 3:31 pmYah I really don’t think the guy was paying very close attention, he was just trying to nod his head and say the university is accepting. Definitely didn’t pick up on the key parts that are the focus of the guys questions.
11 years ago at 4:02 am