Montemagno responds to neo-Nazi flyer found circulating on SIUC campushttps://thesouthern.com/news/local/siu/montemagno-responds-to-neo-nazi-flyer-found-circulating-on-siuc/article_4eeac912-8e9e-5ac9-9ea1-9d09323bfb6b.html
There's a fine line between hate speech and the First Amendment — just ask higher edhttps://thesouthern.com/news/local/education/there-s-a-fine-line-between-hate-speech-and-the/article_2e2e856c-5c6e-5a8c-8da0-240323da1eb4.html
Vice chancellor says accused neo-Nazi no longer at SIUhttps://thesouthern.com/news/local/siu/vice-chancellor-says-accused-neo-nazi-no-longer-at-siu/article_12082df9-9b8c-5f4f-ac4c-0e6c0a915dd0.html
Extract: CARBONDALE — An SIUC student has been publicly accused of belonging to a
White supremacist, neo-Nazi group, known as the Traditionalist Workers Party.
A flyer naming and picturing the male student was posted at multiple locations around the Carbondale campus, according to SIUC spokesperson Rae Goldsmith, and was also shared online and via social media.
A group identifying itself as the Knights of the Flaming Circle claimed credit for identifying the student. The group described itself, in an email sent to the Southern, as made up of "local southern Illinoisans... Some students, some not."
This is the second time this week that a white supremacist group has become a topic of conversation on a local campus.
On Tuesday morning, 50 to 75 cars at John A. Logan College were plastered with "It's ALRIGHT to be WHITE (sic)" advertisements from the Church of Creativity, a group that describes itself as "dedicated to the survival, expansion and advancement of the white race," and is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.SIUC could not detail the nature of its investigation into the accused neo-Nazi, but did confirm that a student with the same name as the accused is enrolled at SIUC, studying forestry.
The student was named to the Dean's List for Fall of 2017, receiving straight-A grades, and is from Glasford, Illinois, records show.
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CARBONDALE — A Southern Illinois University student accused last week of belonging to a white supremacist neo-Nazi group is no longer enrolled at the school, according to Lori Stettler, SIUC's vice chancellor for student affairs.
The student ceased to be enrolled at the Carbondale campus on Wednesday, Stettler said, after meeting with the dean of students.
Stettler could not confirm the terms of the student's departure from SIUC, citing all SIUC students' rights to privacy with regards to their education records.
The student was outed in flyers posted on campus and on social media last week, based on the analysis of more than 4,000 chat messages from an application called Discord, in which a poster named "Fash Dragon" described studying at the SIU Carbondale campus, used slurs against African-Americans and homosexuals, spoke of hating Jewish people, and
posted photos including one of a shooting range target riddled with bullet holes and captioned "Rahowa (an acronym for Racial Holy War) Ready."The chats were linked to the male student by an anonymous group describing itself as made up of "local southern Illinoisans... Some students, some not", by means of posts including, "a selfie and an image of him playing the banjo," the group said, as well as his statement in the chat records that he "was an SIU Carbondale student, studying forestry, who made the dean's list in fall of 2017."
The anonymous accusers, who call themselves The Knights of the Flaming Circle, publicly connected the student to the group that used the Discord chat room he participated in, the Traditionalist Worker Party, an organization designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, because it advocates for "racially pure nations and blames Jews for many of the world's problems."
The chats written by Fash Dragon were the target of an intensive investigation by the Southern Illinois University Department of Public Safety, the campus police force, in the lead-up to the student's departure from campus, Stettler said.
The news of his exit came a short time after a group of students rallied on the Carbondale campus against racism, with some expressing frustration over the university's initial internal response to the accusations, which emphasized the accused student's First Amendment rights.
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John A. Logan College releases statement denouncing hate speech found on flyers last week
CARTERVILLE — More than a week after declining to denounce hate speech disseminated through flyers on campus, John A. Logan College has releas...
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If a student's statements are not considered "threatening language" there's not a lot the institution can do, SIUC's university spokeswoman Rae Goldsmith. explained, because even "hate-speech," like a racial slur, is protected by the First Amendment.