The dean of students thanks the student for her oped and asks if she would be willing to meet with Claremont's administrators to help them "Better serve students, especially those who don't fit our CMC mold." The phrase "Not fitting the mold" was used by Claremont's minority students themselves to describe their status; nevertheless, protests, hunger strikes, and marches engulf the campus, demanding the dean's resignation for having described minority students as not fitting the school's "Mold." The dean grovels before an angry group of students for over an hour, apologizing for her poor choice of words and promising to make amends.
Emory University, March 2016: minority students barge into the president's office demanding protection from "Trump 2016" slogans that had been chalked on campus sidewalks.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 2016: a student mob screamed obscenities and insults continuously during a campus debate on the resolution: "Black Lives Matter is harmful to racial relations in the United States." Administrators and campus police stood by passively during the shout-down and did nothing to restore the debaters' ability to speak; no discipline was meted out to the silencers.
On April 9, at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Professor Camille Paglia, famed nemesis of victimology feminists everywhere, gave a university-wide lecture entitled "Sexual Duality and Sexual Multiplicity in Western Art." A self-described "Non-binary" student, Joseph McAndrew, had organized a protest against the speech after failing to get it moved off campus.
Otherwise, students may conclude that there is no downside to disrupting speakers, even if they don't wrest an apology from the administration for having allowed such pariahs onto their campus.
In a sharp departure from the norm, the campus police have filed criminal-misdemeanor charges against the disruptors, for "Threats and intimidation" and "Interference with the peaceful conduct of an educational institution." And the university president, Robert Robbins, after issuing a bland statement about "Ensuring safety" for students and respecting others' right to speech, followed up with a far more explicit denunciation.
Naturally, faculty and students are demanding that all charges be dropped and that the CBP be permanently banned from campus so that, in the words of the faculty petition, the "Learning environment does not further traumatize or disrupt the emotional, physical, psychological and holistic well-being of our students." Robbins, of course, must resign if the demands are not met.
https://www.city-journal.org/free-speech-camille-paglia
Emory University, March 2016: minority students barge into the president's office demanding protection from "Trump 2016" slogans that had been chalked on campus sidewalks.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 2016: a student mob screamed obscenities and insults continuously during a campus debate on the resolution: "Black Lives Matter is harmful to racial relations in the United States." Administrators and campus police stood by passively during the shout-down and did nothing to restore the debaters' ability to speak; no discipline was meted out to the silencers.
On April 9, at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Professor Camille Paglia, famed nemesis of victimology feminists everywhere, gave a university-wide lecture entitled "Sexual Duality and Sexual Multiplicity in Western Art." A self-described "Non-binary" student, Joseph McAndrew, had organized a protest against the speech after failing to get it moved off campus.
Otherwise, students may conclude that there is no downside to disrupting speakers, even if they don't wrest an apology from the administration for having allowed such pariahs onto their campus.
In a sharp departure from the norm, the campus police have filed criminal-misdemeanor charges against the disruptors, for "Threats and intimidation" and "Interference with the peaceful conduct of an educational institution." And the university president, Robert Robbins, after issuing a bland statement about "Ensuring safety" for students and respecting others' right to speech, followed up with a far more explicit denunciation.
Naturally, faculty and students are demanding that all charges be dropped and that the CBP be permanently banned from campus so that, in the words of the faculty petition, the "Learning environment does not further traumatize or disrupt the emotional, physical, psychological and holistic well-being of our students." Robbins, of course, must resign if the demands are not met.
https://www.city-journal.org/free-speech-camille-paglia
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