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Date Posted: 09:52:31 11/20/02 Wed
Author: brendan k
Subject: University of Ulster anti Irish policy

University halts SF recruitment

belfast newsletter 20th november 2002,. Page 5.


ATTEMPTS by a Sinn Fein activist to recruit members at the University of Ulster have been thwarted by staff.

A stand aimed at encouraging people into Sinn Fein's junior wing which "promoted revolution" was removed after the university enforced its policy of maintaining a "politically neutral environment".

A member of staff at the campus said the stand had appeared in a prominent position on the Mall.

"It was advertising for recruits into Sinn Fein's junior wing, Ogra Sinn Fein, and was advertising revolution," said the staff member, who did not wish to be named.

"It also had statements about mobilisation and compared Bobby Sands to Che Guevara," he said.

A spokesman for the university said: "We do not allow recruitment to any political party in any area of the university."

However, Newtownabbey councillor Briege Meehan insisted her

party was invited by the students' union and claimed other parties had been encouraged to promote political education and awareness.

"It remains my clearest understanding that all political parties received similar invitations from the Jordanstown students. Therefore, I am deeply perplexed by this university decision to remove Sinn Fein and only Sinn Fein."

Published: 20/11/2002


http://www.belfastnewsletter.com/fullnews.asp?DJID=7034

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