[Vision2020] U of I Discrimination to Veterans

[Donovan Arnold]

Bear,
 
Why are you only insistent that UI only not discriminate veterans? What about the disabled, woman, gays and lesbians, and nontraditional students?
 
Then again, is it discrimination when they treat everyone badly?
 
Best Regards,
 
Donovan

--- On Fri, 4/10/09, bear at moscow.com <bear at moscow.com> wrote:


From: bear at moscow.com <bear at moscow.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] U of I Discrimination to Veterans
To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>, vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 8:07 AM


Tom and Visionaries,

I opened the paper this morning and discovered the our Congressman, Walt Minnick, will be
the 
graduation speaker at U of I this year.

I sent him the following, and request that if you support our returning veterans, you join
in and 
send him a message also. It is too easy to feel good and support returning veterans by 
wrapping a yellow ribbon around a tree, please support veterans by doing something
positive, 
even if it only involves sending our elected and appointed officials an e-mail.

"Walt,
I am very disappointed that you have decided to appear as the graduation speaker at the 
University of Idaho, as they openly discriminate against the veterans of the state of
Idaho by 
refusing to comply with Idaho Code 65 in regards to veteran hiring  preferences. The 
University, because of it's constitutional status does not have a veterans preference even

though all other the other government entities are required to comply with the state law.
Your 
appearance at the U of I as their speaker, lends the support of your office to their
flagrant 
position. If you have any doubts about the U of I's policy, I can send you the
documentation I 
received from the hiring manager, MsKathy Vellegas. I also wrote to the acting president
of the 
university, and have to date been ignored. As you know, the state legislature has recently

approved a proposal to change the constitution of Idaho to enable the university to charge

tuition, but as this referendum to change the constitution does nothing to make the
university 
comply, I will be campaigning against it."




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