A university president makes a case against cowardice
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#3Wild that he is some kind of exception. Rolling over, folding is not the university culture I remember.
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#4Some of that so-called activism seems to be closer to suppressing any thoughts someone dislikes. Removing that from university life is not cool, that „activism“ itself went off the rails too.
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#5It's nice universities will have to reform themselves and people will be able to speak their minds again without being afraid.
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#6Wild that he is some kind of exception. Rolling over, folding is not the university culture I remember.
There wasn't, historically, the level of enormous potential negative consequences legally and practically if the universities talked back.
Universities, like many institutions, have also become more like large incumbent businesses than previously - e.g. perpetuating their own existence over having strong core values.
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#7So far the fight/not fight decisions can be predicted in advanced based on whether an institution has a medical center with NIH grants.
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#8It's nice universities will have to reform themselves and people will be able to speak their minds again without being afraid.
You mean like afraid of being deported when they are here legally?
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#10It's nice universities will have to reform themselves and people will be able to speak their minds again without being afraid.
The data do not support what you suggest being a widespread problem. There's a popular story about it being a big problem, but when people start trotting out examples most of them fall apart on closer examination, which is weird if lots of solid examples exist (why pick so many that are, at best a stretch if not simply wrong, if this is a widespread trend and not just a couple actual events that were maybe not great?). Folks have tracked things like speaker cancellations, and there are vanishingly few of those, conservatives, even fairly fringe ones, speak on campuses all the time.