Conservative Princeton Student Fakes Liberal Hate Campaign

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

Jackson Sun

Police: Princeton Student Faked Attack


MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) -- A Princeton University student who argued that his conservative views were not accepted on the campus confessed to fabricating an assault and sending threatening e-mail messages to himself and some friends who shared his views, authorities said Monday.

Princeton Township police said that Francisco Nava was not immediately charged with any crime, but that the investigation was continuing.

Nava claimed to have been assaulted Friday by two men off campus, police said. But he later confessed that scrapes and scratches on his face were self-inflicted, and that the threats were his work, too, said Detective Sgt. Ernie Silagyi.

A spokeswoman for the Ivy League university said punishment, which could range from a warning to expulsion, was pending Monday.

"The university takes all matters related to the safety of its community members very seriously," said spokeswoman Lauren Robinson-Brown. "It's particularly concerning that a student would fabricate such matters."

Nava did not respond immediately to an e-mail from The Associated Press on Monday, and a phone listing for him could not be located.

Nava, a 23-year-old junior politics major from Bedford, Texas, found himself at the center of one campus controversy recently when he wrote a column for the student newspaper criticizing the school for giving out free condoms, which he said encouraged a dangerous "hook-up culture."

A short time later, Nava made his first report to the university public safety office that he was receiving threatening messages in his campus mailbox. A friend says Nava told him one message read, in capital letters: "ONE MORE ARTICLE AND YOU WON'T LIVE TO SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY."

Other members of the Anscombe Society, a conservative student organization, who have spoken out against premarital sex and same-sex marriage, said they received similar threats. So did Robert George, a professor in the politics department.

Robinson-Brown would not say exactly how the university responded to the threats. But she said that, in general, when students are threatened they are given access to counselors, assured that the campus security force will take their calls right away and can be moved to new dorm rooms.

Another student wrote in the campus newspaper Friday that the threats Nava received did not get the same forceful response as anti-gay graffiti that appeared this semester outside the dorm rooms of some gay students.

Brandon McGinley called it a double standard, which made it seem OK to "use intimidation tactics to silence the voices of morally conservative students."

But the threats, like the attack, are apparently a hoax.

"Everyone feels saddened, shocked and surprised to have been dragged along in this," McGinley said. "We're all extremely concerned for (his) mental state."

McGinley said it was a surprise that Nava, who was a resident assistant in a dorm and a member of a campuswide committee on religious life, would be involved in such a hoax.

But he said that after the purported attack, Nava's friends began comparing notes and found some several inconsistencies he told them about threats and the attack. He said they told authorities about them.

Oi vey...

[Flagg]

No question he should be expelled and prosecuted. He's wasted the time of the University, the Police, and tried to paint an entire group on campus in a negative light. Fuck this asshole. hard.

[Boyish-Tigerlilly]

Maybe his views aren't accepted on campus because he's a morally bankrupt, emotionally unstable nutcase. I bet he never thought of that.

[The Yosemite Bear]

yeah, just when you think college young repubs can't get any lower....

what is this guy the bastard offspring of Karl Rove?

[K. A. Pital]

The "opression" against White Christian Conservatives is nonexistent, so they must fake it. Surprise.

[ArmorPierce]

Reminds me of a lot of Americans that are bitching and moaning that white male christians are now the most underprivileged groups and then pulling out experiences to justify it, most of which I suspect is false, embelished, not the real reason, etc.

[Flagg]

A friend of mine from another board made this:



I find it's overwhelmingly true.

[Darth Wong]

Reminds me of a lot of Americans that are bitching and moaning that white male christians are now the most underprivileged groups and then pulling out experiences to justify it, most of which I suspect is false, embelished, not the real reason, etc.

I find that they usually dismiss the accumulated power of the Old Boys Network as if it is not a "real" form of discrimination, even though upwards of 80% of all jobs are filled by personal referral rather than open recruiting, thus tending to perpetuate the race/class stratifications of the past (when overt racism ensured that all the wealth was white).

Or to put it another way, if you want to "network" in business, you don't play basketball. You play golf.

[The Yosemite Bear]

reminds me of why I didn't attend my 15 year reunion...

they held it at a Golf Club in a gated community that wouldn't allow half the graduating class in as a member or guest.

[CaptainChewbacca]

reminds me of why I didn't attend my 15 year reunion...

they held it at a Golf Club in a gated community that wouldn't allow half the graduating class in as a member or guest.

Seriously? How long ago was that?

[The Yosemite Bear]

4 years ago, though after the incident Debbi's lawyers got them to review their policies.

gee were they screwed because our top students were all either: Jewish, Women, and or GALE?

To be exact we had Lawrence's Granddaughter and a nice Jewish American Princess who had higher than perfect scores because they were taking college courses their last two years in high school.

[eyl]

4 years ago, though after the incident Debbi's lawyers got them to review their policies.

gee were they screwed because our top students were all either: Jewish, Women, and or GALE?

To be exact we had Lawrence's Granddaughter and a nice Jewish American Princess who had higher than perfect scores because they were taking college courses their last two years in high school.

What does GALE stand for?

[Darth Yoshi]

Sadly, such moral bankruptcy doesn't surprise me.

eyl
Gay & lesbian.

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

4 years ago, though after the incident Debbi's lawyers got them to review their policies.

gee were they screwed because our top students were all either: Jewish, Women, and or GALE?

To be exact we had Lawrence's Granddaughter and a nice Jewish American Princess who had higher than perfect scores because they were taking college courses their last two years in high school.

What does GALE stand for?

GAy/LEsbian; SDN-specific term for anyone not heterosexual. Taken from the usergroup of the same name.

[Pelranius]

Sounds like the College Republicans at my school. Those gits are so damn irritating that all my conservative friends don't go anywhere near them due to the volume of whining they generate.