Glendale CC Professor Takes on Radical MECHa Club

You know the routine: someone within an institution of public education bucks political correctness and either gets upbraided, removed or assigned to sensitivity/indoctrination training.

Except in the case of Glendale Community College professor Walter Kehowski. The math  professor dared to circulate an email message criticizing the school's radical MECHa club -- Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan) -- and lived to tell about it.

MECHa held a campus Dia de la Raza event to displace Columbus Day, which Professor Kehowski took exception to in an email message he circulated. He told Agape Press that the event promoted ethnic separatism and suggested that school administrators should not have condoned it. MEChA called on Professor Kehowski to apologize for doing what conservatives often and correctly do: characterizing them as a racist organization.

"They don't really know much about MEChA and haven't looked into it all that deeply, and that's one reason why it's supported," Kehowski told Agape Press. "And it's also, unfortunately, that they don't want to offend anybody, and they figure if they try to say anything about it, then it would be too much controversy."

Not only did MECHa members and student government raise a ruckus, but a state legislator also criticized Kehowski. The professor said he was attacked for his opinions about an organization that spreads a dangerous ideology. "In these politically correct times, certain groups can get away with things others couldn't," he told Agape Press.

With the state legislature mired in a two-month long special session reforming Child Protection Services and prison policies, liberal State Rep. Steve Gallardo (Dem-D13)  had time to weigh in on the controversy at Glendale by expressing concern with student complaints about faculty emails.

“I’m going to ask officially of Glendale Community College to start enforcing their policy or introduce legislation to start an enforcement of current policy; possibly even make changes in policy,” Rep. Gallardo said to The Voice, GCC's student newspaper.

GCC's Associated Student Government also sided with MEChA. 

MECHa's goal is to take over the Southwest U.S. and turn it into a Mexican region called Aztlan. It's a direct threat to U.S. national sovereignty.

It turns out we could not have accurately predicted the end of this story. Instead of reaping a PC power move from the administration, Kehowski drew support from the administration. Glendale CC president Phillip Randolph and Chancellor Rufus Glasper refused to acquiesce to MECHa's pressure. The college is not planning to punish Professor Kehowski..