Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist is scheduled to speak on campus as a guest of the Conservative Student Union Nov. 13 in the Beach Auditorium.
“The point … is to show more than one view on campus,” President of the CSU Jason Aula said. “Everyone’s welcome; we just want to educate people about the facts.”
Today, a group of faculty from the College of Liberal Arts is scheduled to meet on campus in regards to Gilchrist’s visit. According Myriam Wiley, the executive assistant to the deans, the College of Liberal Arts has reserved a room for the faculty to be able to meet.
“A number of faculty have discussed via e-mail the upcoming visit by Gilchrist to our campus,” CLA Dean Gerry Riposa wrote via e-mail. “Following this discussion, I believe some of the faculty wish to meet to discuss this speaker’s visit and what, if anything, should they do. To my knowledge, I do not know of any attempt to block the invitation to speak, regardless of Gilchrist[‘s] views or ideological position.”
Chairman of the Chicano and Latino studies department Luis Arroyo welcomed the visit.
“I think he should come,” Arroyo said. “I think we should engage him. This is a university. We are about the free exchange of ideas.”
The CSUs will also be hosting the “African-American homeless activist, patriot and Minuteman” Ted Hayes, according to the group, in addition to an event called “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” at the Friendship Walk in December.
According to Aula, the CSU is an interracial group.
Gilchrist and Hayes ideally should “mobilize the black community against illegal immigration,” the CSU president said.
