They also have served, since the Middle Ages, as the repositories of the best Western civilization has produced in the way of literature, art, philosophy and science, thereby ensuring that there would noble cultural advancement. We are going to have to look elsewhere for such preservation of the best that has been thought and written.Over 90 percent of the America's top colleges maintain policies regulating campus free speech, with one third employing severely restrictive policies, according to a study released Tuesday.The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) reported in its annual end-of-year analysis on campus speech and harassment policies—what FIRE terms "speech codes"—found that over half of the 461 schools included in FIRE's study continue to use methods that have some "chilling effect" on expression.One in nine campuses continue to preserve "free speech zones," or limited strips of campus to which administrators at public institutions restrict demonstrations, pamphleting, and other public expressions of views, according to the report. These zones can make up less than 1 percent of a campus, according to FIRE.Samantha Harris, vice president of policy research at FIRE, said such policy is "blatantly unconstitutional."
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Don't go to - or send your offspring to - these gulags
Institutions of higher learning used to be the world's premier environment for the free exchange of ideas. Now they are sewers of rank tyranny:
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Well the obvious strategy will be to test the constitutionality of these curbs on free speech so I'd advise parents and students to pick where they think they'll get the best STEM education and thereafter the big bucks everyone seems to be after now from their advanced education and to say what they want to say when they want to say it and create a boatload of test cases to be heard by all these wise conservative judges your detested man with the great plan(s) is appointing. Throwing the baby out with the bath water is over reacting. Then again, I realize you are the leaving sort, rather than working from within. You've said you've even left your former political party now.
ReplyDeleteTest cases in courts is not a bad idea, but it strikes me as a postmortem. We all know the stats about the percentages of faculty and administration that vote Democrat. Between that daunting circumstance and the way the students en courage each other in silliness, perversion and gestapo tactics, some court decision saying, "This school went too far in this instance" is not going to rescue higher education.
ReplyDeleteIt's a matter of choice. These days are an auto didact's paradise.
ReplyDeleteIf one has the intellectual basis to make discerning decisions about what one checks out, and to see the thread of tradition and development that is going to make one a full participant in Western civilization. In this autodidact's paradise, one can spend years checking out crap that does nothing to shape one's character or significantly deepen one's outlook.
ReplyDeleteI see. Discern on my didact...
ReplyDeleteAsk your local STEM student or grad if they give a shit about MILTON and think caring about Chaucer is crucial to the survival of Western Civilization. Better yet, ask them how much they read yesterday outside of maybe work.
ReplyDeleteFurther substantiation of my point. Universities are no longer preserving Western heritage
ReplyDeleteThey’re only interested in snowflakes, jackboots and techno-geeks
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