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posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 11 2017, @11:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-in-my-safe-space dept.

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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


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  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday August 12 2017, @03:16AM (2 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Saturday August 12 2017, @03:16AM (#552711)

    Dude, have you ever read what you write? It is frightening in the lack of awareness.

    How large is this "some group of students"? Two?

    So? Then a couple of students are chatting with some visitor in some common area somewhere. Explain the possible harm or reason why anyone should care? A school as a variety of places than can be booked for events of all sizes, from a meeting room for a dozen up the the sportsball stadiums that can seat thousands. The only requirement is a student organization books one appropriate to the audience.

    You are forgetting something. This argument is not about the speaker, it is about the students. The school decided they were worthwhile admissions, they decided a particular speaker would be a good idea for whatever organization they are members of.

    But some random little extremist student group shouldn't be able to force an extremely provocative and controversial speaker on everyone.

    That is entirely on the snowflakes who get all butthurt and "simply can't" at the idea somebody they disagree is going to be within a mile of them. If it is a mandatory program that all students must attend then you would have a point. That is never the case except when Proggies bring in a speaker to a "must attend" event like graduation. One of the lessons schools should be teaching is how to be a f*cking human in a pluralistic society, and that includes accepting the fact that there are people who disagree with you, and those people are talking, lecturing and otherwise engaged in the life of the mind that is the reason the institution they attend exists. If they can't accept that THEY should be expelled on the grounds of being unfit receptacles for an advanced education.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @04:34PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @04:34PM (#552889)

    Says the human shaped pile of shit who wants to literally murder people he doesn't like. Hypocritical garbage bin.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday August 13 2017, @11:16AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 13 2017, @11:16AM (#553183) Journal

      Says the human shaped pile of shit who wants to literally murder people he doesn't like. Hypocritical garbage bin.

      And yet jmorris is right. Such is the power of ad hominem attacks.