Meet Matthew Jezierski: "[He] started a club in honor of a group he considers to be oppressed and undervalued: the white male. The Caucasian American Men of ASU grabbed attention thanks to the club's name, but Jezierski insisted it wasn't a white pride organization. Jezierski, who is fluent in Polish (he was born in the United States), said he only wanted to promote cultural awareness. He didn't understand why being of European descent is anything to be ashamed of."

Dude?

But that's not the whole story. The whiny-white-boy club is now over, and Jerzierski is too embarrassed to talk about it. Especially because he was someone else's bitch at the time: a younger Ann Coulter named Emily Mitchell. Mitchell was also ruled by a guiding hand, that of the ultra-conservative Leadership Institute, who pays people like Mitchell to recruit virgins, racists, pro-lifers, conservatives, and generally repressed Republicans on college campuses. Thankfully, as swayed as one can be in college, eventually they grow up and get minds of their own. If not, consider this scenario:

"Hi mom, I joined a club for white men only."
"Son, we've stopped the tuition check and changed the will."

Until then, however, Mitchell and her ilk can still find plenty of easily influenced minions. There are still plenty of college boys who have never:
•been stared at or threatened for dating someone of a different race.
•been stared at for walking into an establishment with the gall of being adifferent race.
•been followed by a security guard for shopping while black.
•been pulled over by cops for driving while black.
•been afraid to walk alone at night or had his "no" ignored.
•had ancesters who were chained in ships to be sold or held in death camps to be exterminated.
•experienced or felt a single negative thing in life because of their gender, religion, or skin color (aparently Polish jokes have just rolled right off Jezierski, but maybe that's because he is one all on his own).

Yet these nice boys still buy a load like this from a pretty blond: "It's about balance. The African American men…their name is equally divisive. They're excluding Caucasian men. The Caucasian population is declining by percentages making it a growing minority," Mitchell says. "He [Jezierski] speaks fluent Polish and was offended. There's a separate Latino studies or Chicano studies but nothing for people who are white in color. They don't have anything to represent Slavic or German studies. Why aren't European cultures considered diverse?"

First of all, Heidi, there are European studies programs at colleges and universities (literatrue, history, language, and clubs like the German Devils Deutsch Club, which Jezierski settled for). Outside of that, programs like women's studies and Chicano studies exist not to exclude contemporary white men, but because white men of the past two millenia have excluded them. From everything. And now in the somewhat enlightened 20th and 21st centuries, minorities are telling their side about existing on the same planet, past and present. It's only a problem for the whites like Mitchell who don't like it.

People like Mitchell also need to remember this: America does have a white-men only club — it's called the White House. 

Jennifer Leblanc