Penn State's official policy on intolerance (AD-29) reads in part: "Sanctions will be imposed for any violation of university policy, rule or regulation. When the violation is motivated by intolerance toward an individual or group based on characteristics such as age, ancestry, color, disability or handicap, national origin, political belief, race, religious creed, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or political belief, the sanction will be increased in severity and may include expulsion from the university."

Clearly a large segment of the "anti-war" movement at Penn State, including those at the weekly noontime protest, are in violation of that policy. In the 55-year history of the United Nations, more than 150 wars have been fought.

Virtually never has a nation been told it must seek "permission" from the United Nations.

It wasn't required of France in the Ivory Coast (and Bosnia and Macedonia and Kosovo), not the Spanish off the Moroccan coast, not Belgium in the Congo, etc.

But a new breed of anti-American bigotry has arisen and professors and students right here at Penn State University are advocating that Americans be required to sit at the back of the international bus.

While they have gladly allowed the people of every other nation to drink from the "no permission necessary" fountain, the "anti-war" claque is advocating a separate standard for Americans.

These people are bigots and must be recognized as such.

The university should enforce its own policy.

We must endeavor to overcome these bigots, as Malcolm X said, "by any means necessary."