By Jessica Peck Corry
This column originally appeared on The Denver Post’s Politics West site on October 19, 2009
Give credit where credit is due. Spin masters for Colorado’s colleges, together with Gov. Bill Ritter, are attempting to pull off another good one as they declare—yet again—their commitment to responsibly managing taxpayer dollars during these tough […]

This column originally appeared in Human Events on August 27, 2009.
Harvard’s Sad Censorship Campaign
by Jessica Peck Corry
Poor, poor Harvard. The prestigious institution has once again found itself in the embarrassing position of defending a push for campus censorship. This round’s sad irony: student leaders are now the ones trying to throw […]

When free speech means life or death
Don’t demean those fighting for their health care
By Jessica Peck Corry
This column originally ran in the Colorado Daily on August 24, 2009
Free speech can be complicated, as evidenced by the call from U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey (D-Fort Collins) for “civility” in the passionate debate over President Barack Obama’s […]

This column originally appeared on The Denver Post’s Web site on May 6, 2009
Available at http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_12300524
An academic arms race
By Jessica Peck Corry
At the Independence Institute, we’re tough on the University of Colorado, questioning excessive spending, censorship in the classroom, and political bias.
But now we’d like to praise CU President Bruce Benson for taking […]

INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE CALLS FOR VOLUNTARY CU PAY CUTS
Golden, Colo.—In a letter sent to University of Colorado President Bruce Benson today, the Independence Institute is calling on the university to implement voluntary pay cuts for its top officials. The request comes as CU faces the need to cut $14 million in spending.
“While CU students have […]

This column originally appeared on HumanEvents.com on March 11, 2009
By Jessica Peck Corry
For out-of-work former Wall Street executives looking to rake in seven figure salaries or six figure bonuses, a trip to that leafy college campus just down the way might prove well worth it.
Despite’s the nation’s current economic woes, presidents, chancellors, and other administrators […]

From 5280.com:
Count M. Roy Wilson, the chancellor of the University of Colorado at Denver, among those who appear to be weathering the nation’s economic crisis in style. While some university administrators in Colorado face pay cuts and layoffs, Wilson, according to documents obtained by Face the State, is the statewide university system’s highest-paid administrator.
Wilson earns […]

This column originally appeared in the Aspent Times on October 16, 2008.
As voters begin receiving ballots by mail, they are being asked to support the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative. If passed, this proposed state constitutional amendment would — once and for all — prohibit our government from discriminating on the basis of race or gender […]

“Yes” on 46 for equal opportunity
By Jessica Peck Corry
In 2008, voters should “just say no” to government-initiated discrimination and vote “yes” on Amendment 46, the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative.
If passed this November, our measure would prohibit the government from discriminating or granting preferential treatment based on race or gender in public hiring, public contracting, […]

Affirmative action on ballot in some U.S. states
Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:06pm EDT
Keith Coffman - Analysis
DENVER (Reuters) - When voters in Colorado select a new U.S. president on November 4, they will also be asked whether to eliminate policies that give preference in government hiring to women and blacks.
It is just one of about 150 […]

Time to ban preferences
Vote yes on Amendment 46
Rocky Mountain News
Published October 2, 2008
A surge in interracial marriages and immigration has meant racial and ethnic lines - artificial strata defining us by the color of our skin and not by the content of our character, the ideal stressed by Martin Luther King Jr. - […]

Amendment 46: Fairness in hiring, admissions
By Jessica Peck Corry
This column originally appeared in The Denver Post on September 19, 2008
The Colorado Civil Rights Initiative would once and for all prohibit our government from discriminating on the basis of race or gender in public education, public contracting, and public hiring.
Every day in Colorado, our government preaches […]

Denver Post Affirmative Action Debate Coverage
Affirmative action’s dividing lineBoth sides are heard on Amendment 46, which would ban the state’s minority preferences.
By Tim HooverThe Denver Post07/16/2008
Supporters and opponents of a ballot initiative that would end state- sponsored affirmative action programs made their cases to hundreds of minority-owned-business leaders in Denver on Wednesday morning.
The presentations on […]

Time for the truth on affirmative action
By Jessica Peck Corry
This column originally appeared in the Boulder Daily Camera on Thursday, July 17, 2008
As an overwhelming number of Coloradans say they support a ballot initiative to abolish race and gender preferences, an opposition campaign designed to confuse voters hinges on half-truths and deception. Don’t be […]

STATE RACISM DOESN’T WORK
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ON THE ROPES
Remove all the political pettifoggery, obfuscation and claptrap, and one thing becomes clear: decisions based on race and gender are racist and sexist. Period.
That’s why a recent poll regarding the November ballot issue that would end racial and gender preferences […]

From the Rocky Mountain News:
Voters favor amendment to eliminate racial, gender preferences
By Bill Scanlon
Friday, June 27, 2008
Colorado voters overwhelmingly favor the idea of ending racial and gender preferences in such areas as college admission, contracting and public-sector jobs, a new poll says.
That poll, of 1,300 likely Colorado voters, found 65 percent of them […]

Government Stats: Calif. Minority Students Aided By Race-Neutral Admissions
May 2, 2008
Face The State Staff Report
Proponents of a Colorado ballot initiative that would bar state-sponsored discrimination are touting college admission trends for racial minorities in California after a similar law was passed there in 1996.
The universitiesOfficial government data indicate that admissions rates and numbers of underrepresented […]

This column originally appeared in the Rocky Mountain News on April 30, 2008.
Civil rights initiative under constant fire
By By Jessica Peck Corry
The time has come for Colorado to have an honest debate over affirmative action. Unfortunately, for voters across the state, radical opponents to the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative are doing everything they can […]

On April Fool’s Day, reporters from near and far eagerly covered a Denver press conference where organizers alleged voter fraud against a conservative civil rights ballot initiative. Two weeks later, however, when such claims are proven to be—at best—extremely questionable, the media remains silent.
The New York Times, in its April 2 edition, carried a […]

This column originally appeared in the Colorado Daily on March 10, 2008.
Boulder Home to Victim U.
By Jessica Peck Corry
We shall overcome.
This was the chant of dozens of CU students who ditched class late last month to condemn the “racist” column of a misguided University of Colorado journalism student. How sad.
The source of controversy […]