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Duke University Senate Cuts Funding To Campus Republican Group Over Anti-LGBT Discrimination

09/09/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
The Duke University Student Government Senate has voted to cancel the funding for the Republican chapter on the university’s campus for the rest of the year. They made the move after finding that the organization exhibited a “culture of discrimination.” It is a victory for Justin Robinette who was impeached as the group’s leader. According to the allegations made against him, he was removed because of his conduct, but he has maintained that he was removed because he is gay.

Robinette and the group’s former Vice Chair Cliff Satell presented the senate with a number of emails showing derogatory language and harassment towards him. The emails originating with current DCR chair Carter Boyle included derogatory homosexual images, gay remarks, and racism and anti-Semitic messages. The packet of emails included death threats leveled mostly at Robinette. Images of the vandalism from this summer that had been painted on the East Campus bridge.

A member of the executive board member from the College Republicans tried to counter all of this by stating that the emails do “not represent the members of the [group’s] executive board as it stands now.”

The senate appears to not have been moved by that statement. They have already begun making moves to possibly de-charter the group. The senate will make a decision regarding that in the next few weeks.

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