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Vol. 118 Issue 24

TRINITY GOLF 19

theTrinitonian Serving Trinity University, San Antonio Since 1902

April 15, 2016

Yiannopoulos causes campus controversy with lecture

Tigers for Liberty host speaker to promote free speech BY JESSICA LUHRMAN

NEWS REPORTER

Milo Yiannopoulos, British technology journalist and entrepreneur, spoke in Laurie Auditorium last Sunday on microaggressions. The lecture was organized by Tigers for Liberty. In a response to a March 22 discussion regarding microaggressions organized by the Trinity Progressives, the Black Student Union and the Trinity Diversity Connection. Manfred Wendt, the president of Tigers for Liberty, said the event was meant to encourage free speech on campus. “We want Trinity to be a free marketplace of ideas, where contentious topics can be discussed intellectually and civilly. While not everyone at Trinity or everyone in Tigers for Liberty may agree with what the speaker has to say — it is important that we address these ideas head on in the pursuit of truth,” Wendt said. In his lecture, Yiannopoulos said that microaggressions are good news for Americans. “The idea is that you could be racist without even knowing it. It’s completely bullocks. Microaggressions [are] good news. The fact that the left has had to come up with microaggressions — these tiny things that you do [that] might be sending signals that you’re racist, sexist or homophobic — this a symbol that racism, sexism and homophobia [are] gone,” Yiannopoulos said. “If you have to look that hard for it, then it ain’t around anymore.” Throughout his speech, Yiannopoulos referred to microaggressions as a product of “outrage culture.”

“The best way to deal with outrage culture, the grievance, the victimhood that being offended means something. Well, it doesn’t. It’s not an argument. You all are fucking crazy,” Yiannopoulos said. Throughout the lecture, Yiannopoulos discussed upcoming and past stops on his

cultures,” Yiannopoulos said. “I’m going to do this talk in full Native American costume.” Yiannopoulos discussed his ambition to get dreadlocks in the future. “White people with dreadlocks are supposedly cultural appropriating. Do you think I should get dreadlocks? I’m having

Milo Yiannopoulos lectures students on microaggressions.

international tour, “Dangerous Faggot Tour.” On Oct. 27, Yiannopoulos plans to give a talk at Yale University regarding cultural appropriation in full Native American headdress and clothing. “I’m going to give a talk on the 27th of October, just before Halloween, about cultural appropriation, which is this bullshit idea from the left that dressing in mariachi costumes is inappropriate because you haven’t suffered the oppression of those

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this debate amongst myself. Supposedly that’s racist. I don’t know why,” Yiannopoulos said. The event was free and open to the public and attracted off-campus individuals. More than 175 people attended the event. Yiannopoulos is an avid Trump supporter on his social media accounts he often refers to the Republican candidate as “Daddy.” Some audience members were Trump supporters wearing red “Make America Great Again” hats. One audience

member even dressed as Donald Trump wearing a blond wig and suit that he said during the question and answer period was in honor of Trump. “If you have Trump stickers on your laptop, apparently that’s a racist act now. Supporting the leading Republican candidate? It’s crazy,” Yiannopoulos said. Yiannopoulos made several arguments against feminism during his talk. Yiannopoulos, who was heavily involved in the Gamergate controversy, called female video game critics “bullies” in several articles. Yiannopoulos referenced the Gamergate controversy and feminism during his talk. “You need to be worried that these people run the media, the entertainment industries, the video game industry. Feminists have overrun comic books, fantasy and sci-fi. They tried with video games and it didn’t work because gamers were like ‘yeah, fuck off,’” Yiannopoulos said. Yiannopoulos also addressed men’s rights activists saying that they are often unjustly accused of hating women. “The reason men’s rights activists get accused of misogyny is not because they hate women, it’s because they have taken seriously what feminists have been asking us to do for 30 years, which is to treat them like men. Well, taunting is how men bond. Women are cunts to each other. Men roast each other and women can’t cope with it,” Yiannopoulos said. Yiannopoulos also argued that feminists do not want men to be nice to them. “You’re also not allowed to be nice to feminists because that’s a microaggression. This is kind of like the opening doors thing. I prefer to not open doors to women, instead I slam it in their faces,” Yiannopoulos said. continued on page 4

SGA proposes making offices paid positions Proposed change met with mixed reviews on campus BY PHILLIP MCKEON

NEWS REPORTER

Trinity’s Student Government Association recently announced that they were considering making future SGA offices paid positions. The idea is in its infancy, but it has already resulted in mixed reactions from the student body. Jacob Sanchez, an SGA senator representing the first-year class, explained that the idea originated during a conference between various student governments from different schools. “The first time that I was involved in the discussion to pay our student government was at the conference of Student Government Associations in College Station this past March. After learning

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that many of the universities attending compensated members for their service, the Trinity delegates began to explore the idea. If put into practice, this would only apply to future senators,” Sanchez said. Sanchez elaborated on the arguments in support of the idea and against the move to make SGA offices paid positions. “The argument for paying senators is that it could increase participation and as a result increase the talent in SGA. On the other hand, this change may lead to a decrease in the experience of SGA and corrupt the representation of the student body,” Sanchez said. Sanchez then discussed his own opinion on the matter, expressing that he does not support the move. “At this time, I do not support paying members of the student government for their participation in SGA. I believe it is a conflict of interest for members of SGA to receive a direct payment from the university while still maintaining the integrity of their

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representation of and responsibility to the student body,” Sanchez said. Sanchez went on to expand on exactly why he finds it unnecessary to pay SGA senators. “The interactions I have had with students that were members of paid student governments described the move to pay senators as a necessity to maintain the organization. At Trinity, we have a strong and engaged student body. This type of incentive is warranted when you have an apathetic student body, and that just isn’t the case here,” Sanchez said. The student body has expressed mixed feelings regarding the issue, Sanchez explained. “SGA sent out a survey in our newsletter and we have received feedback. What we’ve found is that there is not a consensus among the students as to whether or not senators should be paid,” Sanchez said. Noah Boriack, Trinity first year, expressed strong disapproval of the idea. “I think it’s a terrible idea. We pay a

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lot of money to go to this school, and I think that money needs to go toward what it was meant for,” Boriack said. One of the main criticisms of the plan is that the student activity fee, which is included in tuition, isn’t meant to pay SGA. “We pay the student activity fee so that we students can attend activities, not so that SGA can get paid,” Boriack said. Boriack continued to question what qualified SGA officers to be paid. “For the most part, SGA isn’t usually the group planning and coordinating the events anyways. They’ve done more recently than they have in the past, sure, but usually they’re just there to fund other groups and their events,” Boriack said. “I get that being a senator probably takes up a lot of their time, but they’re just like officers for any other student group. You sign up for these things because you want to do it, because it looks good on a resume, and maybe you even want to do a little good for the school. Not because you want to get paid.”

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