Somebody's Lying
Steve Hinkle tried to post a notice of a speaker for his campus sponsored group in his school's Multicultural Center.
First of all - if I'm in school, and the Student Center is not called the Student Center but the "Multicultural Center," I would expect to be hassled at every turn. Because, you see, I'm not multicultural. I'm a white guy. But I digress.
Hinkle, a white guy, was indeed hassled:
Several students confronted Hinkle and told him he needed approval from the coordinator of the multicultural center before he could post anything. While Hinkle left to investigate the claims, one of the students called the campus police department.
As you'll see in the linked story, the incident degenerated rapidly, with Hinkle charged with disrupting a student meeting.
At a hearing in the matter, the university's VP of student affairs made it clear that he was charged because of his race, his political affiliation and because some members of the campus community considered the flyers he attempted to post to be offensive:
"You are a young white member of CPCR (Cal Poly College Republicans). To students of color, this may be a collision of experience," Morton said. "The chemistry has racial implications, and you are naive not to acknowledge those."
This must be awkward for Cal Poly's legal counsel, who says:
[Hinkle] was not charged because of his political affiliation or because some members of our campus community considered the flyers he attempted to post to be offensive."
Oops! Oh well, at least the law talking guy didn't try to claim it wasn't about race.
Note: the article spells Hinkle's name two different ways. I'm going with the majority "Hinkle" which appears in other stories on the case as well.