The Eugene Weekly’s Bob Keefer pans the Knight Campus’s still under-construction “bridge to nowhere”, here. While I agree it’s not up to the architectural excellence of, say, the Hayward Field Phallus, it will provide the perfect location for students and union members to hang protest banners from – with none…
Posts tagged as “time place and manner speech restrictions”
The NYT op-ed focuses on the “UO Student Coalition’s” efforts to prevent him from giving his State of the University address. Information on the administration’s botched attempt to discipline the student protestors is here. Information on his administration’s treatment of Prof Nancy Shurtz for her stupid and offensive – but…
It turns out that our administration’s fears of a Johnson Hall neo-Nazi occupation were a bit overblown. The Emerald has the report here, courtesy of the remarkably understated Max Thornberry. The Nazis got even fewer student spectators than a Duck baseball game.
Unfortunately it’s the list of the top 10 *worst* universities for free speech. The Oregonian’s Andrew Theen has the report here. The FIRE list is here. I am quoted by Theen as arguing that top 10 is a bit unfair, given President Schill’s recent decision to drop the proposed restrictions…
Is free speech on campus dying?
If so, it’s still kicking. Friday’s engaging talk by Geoffrey Stone from Chicago Law laid out and put to rest the arguments against free speech and academic freedom one by one, then finished them off with his responses to audience questions about the increasing use of hate speech by conservatives, and safe spaces for our increasingly diverse students.
Free Speech on Campus: A Challenge for Our Times
Friday, February 17 at 4:00pm
It’s nice waking up to an email like this, and being able to tell the very effective TPM task force their work is done. One less weekly meeting! More on the Senate website here: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/senate/2017/02/14/open-mike-free-expression-on-campus-rights-and-some-responsibilities/ From: Mike Schill <mschill@uoregon.edu> Subject: Time, Place and Manner rules Date: February 14, 2017 at 5:51:47…
Update: The Daily Emerald’s Emma Henderson reports on student opposition to the restrictions, which the administration has given the Orwellian title of “The Time, Place, Manner and Protection of Speech Policy”. 2/12/2017: The UO administration wants to make peaceful protests a crime. They have proposed a new policy that will…
The UO administration finally gave the UO Senate a copy of their proposal to restrict free speech, here, and the Senate is now working on a less restrictive policy. The Chronicle has a new report on the state legislation here (gated if off campus). An excerpt: … So far, all of the lawmakers…