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With Governor Roy Cooper (D) taking no action on the bill, the state of North Carolina has enacted the Restore Campus Free Speech Act, the first comprehensive campus free-speech legislation based on the Goldwater proposal. That proposal, which I [Stanley Kurtz (Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center)] co-authored along with Jim Manley and Jonathan Butcher of Arizona's Goldwater Institute, was released on January 31 and is now under consideration in several states. It's fitting that North Carolina should be the first state to enact a Goldwater-inspired law.
[...] The North Carolina Restore Campus Free Speech Act achieves most of what the Goldwater proposal sets out to do. It ensures that University of North Carolina policy will strongly affirm the importance of free expression. It prevents administrators from disinviting speakers whom members of the campus community wish to hear from. It establishes a system of disciplinary sanctions for students and anyone else who interferes with the free-speech rights of others, and ensures that students will be informed of those sanctions at freshman orientation. It reaffirms the principle that universities, at the official institutional level, ought to remain neutral on issues of public controversy to encourage the widest possible range of opinion and dialogue within the university itself. And it authorizes a special committee created by the Board of Regents to issue a yearly report to the public, the regents, the governor, and the legislature on the administrative handling of free-speech issues.
Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450027/north-carolina-campus-free-speech-act-goldwater-proposal
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @06:48PM (2 children)
Well if we're on the discussion of violent protests, maybe some more light should be shed on non-violent protests, like the one that got a line of protesters sprayed in the face with pepper spray at UC Davis a few years back.
The reason I bring this up is because if we're going to try and keep civil protestation and open discourse going on, we need to ensure both controversial speakers, their supporters, and their dissenters feel safe, as well as that law enforcement patrolling the venue is ensuring the safety of ALL participants, whether on the 'accepted' or 'reviled' side of a discussion without bias.
As soon as bias is allowed by persons who are supposed to be acting as a neutral party the whole system breaks down, much like we've let happen to the US as a whole.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @05:31AM (1 child)
I'm starting to think the only sane thing to do is to take a step back in time and allow people to sort out these differences with fisticuffs
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday August 13 2017, @12:23AM
They will use cars instead. [nbcnews.com]
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