University Admin: Constitution 'Offensive, Oppressive, Obscene'

Yale, Syracuse and Cornell administrators destroyed copies of the U.S. Constitution, referring to the nation's founding document as "obscene material or proaganda."

Project Veritas went to the college campuses to hand out miniature copies of the Constitution. After that, a PV journalist went undercover as a student to see how far school administrators would go to be "politically correct." 

The undercover PV journalist approached different school administrators posing as a student who was offended by the act of someone passing out copies of the Constitution on the college campuses.

"It triggered me. I have been trying to deal with it ever since, of why that would be on campus," the undercover actress told one administrator. "I just see this as such an oppressive document that I was completely shocked to see it on campus."

She went on to say that the Constitution was discriminatory.

"You will be outraged at what (university officials) do to help one student 'ease her pain,'" Project Veritas wrote in a statement.

The responses were 100 percent in favor of helping the student ease her distress by destroying the "offensive" copy on the document.

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 Yale's Jason Killheffer uses his hands to rip the Constitution to shreds before throwing it away in a nearby trash can.

"Let me find out what the policies are on distribution of materials, propaganda, obscene materials," Killheffer told the undercover journalist when she asked if they could stop passing out copies of the Constitution.

"My expectation is if someone were distributing or posting offensive materials, that the dean would listen to that and take some sort of action as appropriate," Killheffer said.

Syracuse's Equal Opportunity Officer Sheila Johnson-Willis cut the Constitution pamphlet with a pair of scissors, dismembering it into small strips while asking the journalist if she needed to talk to someone.

Cornell's Elizabeth McGrath, a lead Title IX investigator, called the Constitution a "flawed document," and said the justices on the Supreme Court who voted against same-sex marriage were "really out of their minds."

McGrath then stated that handing it out on campus is a way for everybody to see how to choose to interpret it.

When the undercover journalist asked if they could shred it, McGrath agreed, saying, "Free speech means freedom to destroy whatever you want to as well."

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At Vasser, Assistant Director of Equal Opportunity Kelly Grab shredded the Constitution pamphlet following a conversation with the journalist.

Vasser's Faculty Director of Affirmative Action & Professor of Athropology Coleen Cohen said they couldn't stop people from coming on campus and disseminating the pamphlets.

"It's horrible that this is something that has caused you such pain," she told the reporter.

"Could I destroy this (the Constitution pamphlet)?" Cohen asked, then said she would shred the document.

Oberlin College's Professor of History and Director of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies Carol Lasser called the Constitution an "oppressive document."

"It intends to make change slow," Lasser said. "Right now, given who is in charge of the U.S. House of Representatives, I think that's a good thing."

Oberlin's Wendy Kozol, a professor and chair of Comparative American Studies postulated that there might be some groups interested in having a forum to discuss how "the Constitution in everyday life causes people pain."

Kozol went on to agree with the PV Journalist that they could work toward the end goal of showing people how racist and discriminating the Constitution is.

Project Veritas says it shows that extreme political correctness is taking place on college campuses.

"We are not going to stop until we have eradicated this extreme and offensive political correctness on college campuses, and I hope you'll join us," James O'Keefe with Project Veritas wrote in a statement.