ACPA-College Student Educators International MOVES Arizona Meeting

The American College Personnel Association-College Student Educators International has announced that it will move its January meeting of mid-level managers, scheduled to be in Tuscon, because of Arizona's new immigration law.

In a statement (.pdf), the group said:

S.B. 1070 may create an atmosphere that is totally contradictory to the core values of our association and profession. In addition to concerns raised, the question surfaced about our association hosting an event in any other state or country that could potentially create an atmosphere of exclusion, harassment, or an unwelcome environment for an ACPA member. This is problematic and goes against our fundamental values of inclusion.

As a result, the ACPA Governing Board has authorized the Executive Director to only seek reasonably priced venues that are known for their inclusion and perceived safety. It is paramount that our members and guests be able to attend ACPA hosted events free of constraint or intimidation. This Arizona immigration law does not appear to provide this assurance.

Headquarted in Washington, D.C., at the National Center for Higher Education, ACPA-College Student Educators International is the foremost student affairs association in the country.

Comments

[Anthony Stuart]

01:33 AM on 05/31/2010

Okay Arizona. Have your new immigration law. You will most likely repeal it youselves in time. When it devastates your economy. When all the hispanics are gone(as most will likely leave) who will buy your goods and services? Consumption is what drives the modern economy, and the more consumers you have the better. Do you think it is an accident there is not enough border security? If the fed was doing it's job you wouldn't need a law of your own. No, these people are here because our corporate owned govenment officials do not want to stop the supply of cheap labor. It is on their backs, and the backs of your average underpaid american worker, our economy is built. Your law goes about things from the wrong end. The Fed simply must secure the border. The risk of really bad people getting through is real. Employers who employ undocumented workers should be more vigorously prosecuted. Without the lure of employment, an undocumented worker would have no reason to come here and face the tremendous risk.

[realitytrumpsbull]

12:09 AM on 05/27/2010

That's great, because 'international' seems to be the crux of the problem, here. I think education is highly politicized, and might go a long ways towards explaining why it is that other countries seem to actually graduate more people. Academics is about subject mastery, and come right down to it, you can educate yourself, if so inclined. You really don't need these self-important bureaucrats with their foundations and and and. Maybe it's vocab test time, for the educators: What's the difference between education, and indoctrination? I think in any instance when it's found that the ivory-tower types there have ventured off into politics, they should get their government funding slashed, cut, even. Educators: Your job is to teach. Ok, teach, but keep your politics out of it. Or quit, and run for office. But, make a deciderer, there. Abuse of an institution is abuse of an institution, and when the taxpayers are helping to foot the bill, there need to be some clear guidelines on how the places operate.

[MJVs Common Sense]

06:40 PM on 05/26/2010

I think most of the posts on here have gotten off the topic of the article, haha.

I am a member of ACPA and I applaud this action. However, I think it was less of a moral/political stance and more of a realistic appraisal of their members. Most members of ACPA are VERY liberal (there are two national organizations representing this field and this is by far the more liberal of the two). More than likely ACPA realized that if they left it in Arizona, no one would show up. But, the effect is the same, so I approve of the measure. Bravo ACPA, and today I am proud to be a member!

[LeftLeanWing]

06:49 PM on 05/26/2010

At first I read the word 'applaud' as appalled...and was very confused.
Had to read it over..

lol

[ObamAtomic]

04:04 PM on 05/26/2010

EricEFNY 7 minutes ago (3:50 PM)
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Bobo..read ObamAtomics comments. He/She/It has a great deal of difficulty comprehending anything. Uses insults instead of reason and is a complete waste of time. My advise is not to respond deep in the margins here..as I have done. One time to refute his silliness in a thread is sufficient.

I believe it is part of his tactics to keep you engaged in a personal conversation to prevent any valuable points you may present from being seen.

Just some advise based on experience..all the best.
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Only you two left?

What you call difficulties comprehending anything I call,repudiation of your inane comments
and neocons policies,you wingtroll here can't advance spweing tea baggers points,
What you believe is irrelevant,besides when you or others are saying that that the 4th Amendment is irrelevant clearly it show who are the ones having difficulties comprehending anything.

"Amendment 4 - Search and Seizure. Ratified 12/15/1791.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized"”

[holyghostie]

12:59 PM on 05/26/2010

Move the event to Tijuana.

[ObamAtomic]

01:37 AM on 05/26/2010

Bobo from Texas 1 hour ago (12:08 AM)
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I hope that you can learn to communicate clearly in English someday too!
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Bobo always you neocons when fail at talking points use English as narrtive,
Bobo ,who cares,You a Palin fan,Fan boy you are krazy!

Bobito usted necesita papel de aluminio!

[holyghostie]

10:17 PM on 05/25/2010

If this organization had any guts they would move the event to a border town in Mexico.
They won't because they can't guarantee safety....

[goldenrae9]

10:10 PM on 05/26/2010

More like lack of conference venues.

[reyvn77]

07:02 PM on 05/25/2010

If I see another misinformed "this is just like getting stopped while driving" comment I might just lose it.

[ObamAtomic]

06:20 PM on 05/25/2010

HUFFPOST SUPER USER
3neuticals 4 minutes ago (6:08 PM)
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Slow it down there Rainman. Neo-con racist? You mean, "neo-con racist" of the communist newspeak lexicon? Well, that explains a lot. Thanks for playing.
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This isn't a game! Why you stopped defending those neocons,racists ,supremacists?
Next time,remember yours "depends" also bring a mirror with you.

[Bobo from Texas]

12:32 AM on 05/26/2010

Don't you support convicted woman abuser Julius Malema? Your hate is truly ugly.

[ObamAtomic]

05:59 PM on 05/25/2010

The Governor-Brewer de Klerk signed a Bill to authorize Sheriff -Pieter Willem Botha to
round Hispanics look alike in Aryanzona,affected cities are Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Beware, :posse" of rabid Aryanzonians are patrolling ,imitating Mussolini forces.

Arizona- Aryanzona
Arizonians- Aryanzonians
Phoenix-Cape Town
Maricopa-Johannesburg
Sheriff -Pieter Willem Botha
Governor-Brewer de Klerk

[3neuticals]

06:16 PM on 05/25/2010

Interesting. Last I checked, there was a "crime" war against whites in South Africa.

Obamatomic-Julius Malema sympathizer

[ObamAtomic]

06:23 PM on 05/25/2010

This isn't about South Africa. This is about The Governor-Brewer de Klerk .

I like when you people "bite the bait" and go out the script starting to ranting from subject to subject.

[LeftLeanWing]

06:54 PM on 05/26/2010

**** THEN STOP READ WORLD NET DAILY THEN ****
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=138297

It's a wingNut internet Newspaper started by the folks who tried to bring Pres Clinton down..

There are keeping you paranoid, misinformed and stupid !

[thepoliticalcat]

05:21 PM on 05/25/2010

Good. I wouldn't feel comfortable going to any kind of business or professional meeting in AZ. As a person of colour, I would fear being stopped and asked for my papers, which I do NOT carry with me at all times because the Constitution imposes no such requirement and fear of identity theft and the PITA entailed in replacing them forces me to leave them in a secure place.

[Bobo from Texas]

05:40 PM on 05/25/2010

So I suppose you don't own a car?

[3neuticals]

05:53 PM on 05/25/2010

Maybe he plans on being drunk and disorderly. He didn't say what kind of 'business or professional' meeting.

[MalloMel]

05:54 PM on 05/25/2010

Maybe he walks, or takes a cab or public transportation. Heck, there was a time when I didn't own a car.

[zipowitz]

06:29 PM on 05/25/2010

You do realize that you cannot be stopped for being a person of colour. On top of that in the course of a legal stop, detention or arrest, if the police have reasonable suspicion that you are in the country illegally, you can be asked to prove citizenship. So if you say are stopped for speeding, you drivers license in all liklihood will get you by. You do carry your license correct?

[reyvn77]

07:01 PM on 05/25/2010

you do know that 1070 applies to walking people too, right?

[theerrantsoul]

04:44 PM on 05/26/2010

You cannot legally be stopped for being a person of color. Racist cops already do that anyway - now they'll have a law that allows them to actually question a person of minority's citizenship status when they make up a reason to hassle them.

[ObamAtomic]

05:00 PM on 05/25/2010

@Bobo from Texas 26 minutes ago (4:27 PM)
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So you actually think that anyone who opposes Obamas policies is a birther? How very small minded and intolerant of you. Very "progressive" too.
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Bobo,how the new curriculum is going down there,Bobo you spend all this afternoon
disseminating point and narratives,Bobo your characterizations of me are are irrelevant,can you see while you are favoring 'narratives" we are gaining grounds. If you hurt,my apologies,do you like cake? I never call you a birther,I understand you are a rabid neocon! Good luck!

[Bobo from Texas]

05:11 PM on 05/25/2010

Try to be more lucid in your comments. They are embarassingly disjointed

[ObamAtomic]

05:19 PM on 05/25/2010

Are you sure? My mimicker isn't BOBO!
Grow some skin!
Keep those talking points coming!
You aren't too together defending racists and racism!

[thepoliticalcat]

05:22 PM on 05/25/2010

At least they reveal a compassion for fellow humans. Yours reveal an accurately spelled shallowness and meanness of spirit that makes me wonder if you're from another planet/species.

[Bobo from Texas]

04:55 PM on 05/25/2010

Racist Obama sends troops to border

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/obama-to-deploy-1200-national-guard-troops-to-the-usmexico-border.html

Why does he hate our Mexican brothers so?

[ObamAtomic]

05:20 PM on 05/25/2010

You still babbling?
Please read carefully "Amendment 4 - Search and Seizure. Ratified 12/15/1791.

[Bobo from Texas]

05:48 PM on 05/25/2010

So Obama is violating the constitution too?

[thepoliticalcat]

05:23 PM on 05/25/2010

Could it be because he is responding to that most h8ful reptilian, Gov Jan Brewer?

[Bobo from Texas]

05:49 PM on 05/25/2010

No, it's probably because the President hates people who don't look like him or his family.

[ObamAtomic]

04:03 PM on 05/25/2010

@75thRanger replied on May 25, 2010 at 15:40:13
“ 4th Amendment is irrelevant because it doesn't conflict"
READ THE LAW........IT's NOT THAT LONG”
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You are the first American,that can uttered the 4th Amendment is irrelevant.,,,,,
Are you a child left behind,seriously,the Constitution and Amendments are irrelevant to you,
you are discussing the wrong subject,you are more accordingly with Myspace crowd!

Have a nice day!

[ObamAtomic]

03:53 PM on 05/25/2010

75thRanger 4 minutes ago (3:40 PM)
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So let me get this straight reading the law is a "Juvenile" point? If you would read the law you would understand that the 4th Amendment is irrelevant because it doesn't conflict.

READ THE LAW........IT's NOT THAT LONG
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Please read carefully "Amendment 4 - Search and Seizure. Ratified 12/15/1791.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized"

Plus The federal government of the United States is the central government entity established by the United States Constitution and "The balance of federal powers and those powers held by the states as defined in the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution was first addressed in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland. Chief Justice John Marshall asserted that the laws adopted by the federal government, when exercising its constitutional powers, are generally paramount over any conflicting laws adopted by state governments. After McCulloch, the primary legal issues in this area concerned the scope of Congress' constitutional powers, and whether the states possess certain powers to the exclusion of the federal government, even if the Constitution does not explicitly limit them to the States.