UC Berkeley Urge Boycott
Hat tip Campus Reform
It’s Free Speech Week at UC Berkeley, which means that a handful of conservative students have invited conservative speakers to campus. To protect the snowflakes from those points of view, a group of professors is urging students and faculty to stay off campus.
University of California-Berkeley professors are cancelling classes so that students can boycott the “free speech week” event featuring Milo Yiannopoulos, Steve Bannon, and Ann Coulter.
The letter—which was co-authored by seven faculty members and signed by 132 members of various university departments—calls on faculty to cancel classes and tell their students to stay home; close buildings and departments, if possible; and/or pledge not to penalize students for missing class, according to The Daily Californian.
Warning that a series of “explicitly violent Alt-Right, Militia, and pro-Fascist events are being planned” for September 24-27, and that this will lead to violent confrontations, they say that “We cannot ask students and staff to choose between risking their physical and mental safety in order to attend class or come to work in an environment of harassment, intimidation, violence, and militarized policing.”
“The reality is that particularly vulnerable populations (DACA students, non-white, gender queer, Muslims, disabled, feminists, and others) have already been harmed, and are reporting increased levels of fear and anxiety about the upcoming events, the increased police presence on our campus, and how all this will impact their lives and their studies,” the letter stated.
“Many of these provocateurs’ most committed audiences are online, and the Breitbart media machine uses that audience to harass, cyberbully, and threaten anyone who speaks out against them,” it continues, claiming that “students and faculty on our campus have already had their lives threatened for speaking out against Milo and his followers.”
Specifically mentioning DACA recipients, the letter says that making DACA students go to campus for classes places them under an “imminent threat,” and that “faculty who DO hold classes are disadvantaging DACA students and others who will feel threatened by being on campus.”
“This is a clear threat to public higher education,” said Professor Michael Cohen told The Daily Californian. “People are coming to humiliate others and incite violence…The boycott is a refusal to allow this to happen on our campus.”
Cohen would add that ““We’re not afraid of Milo, Ann [Coulter], or Bannon’s words. We have a deep anxiety over the violence that their followers bring in response.”
“The University’s legal obligation is clear,” Assistant Vice Chancellor Dan Mogulof said in response to the faculty letter. “The protections for free speech contained in the First Amendment as interpreted by subsequent case law oblige us to allow any speaker who has been invited in accordance with our policies to speak without discrimination in regard to content.”
Mogulof added, however, that “It is up to faculty to decide how they plan to cover the curriculum for their classes over the course of a semester.”
Campus Reform talked to one of the professors who signed the letter, Charis Thompson, who said that “I am holding them online, off campus to be fair to those who aren’t safe coming.”
Read More https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9776
I heartily concur. I urge students to stay off the UCB campus forever. They’re not getting an education anyway, so why bother?
Source: http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2017/09/uc-berkeley-urge-boycott.html
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Time the other faculty members decided on splitting the campus to free and non free. Then again this is moot since the movement is underway to online education making UCLA and all the current educational models obsolete.
That’s true DK. With all the information, training, classes and seminars available online and in libraries, the only thing an earnest student of any theoretical subject needs is an outline and some time and they can educate themselves.
the one thing they dont want people(students) to know is that the online students score higher than the classroom drones in all aspects of testing after their edge u macation process!! the online students actually learn more…good bye professors..the trucking industry needs you(drivers) and for once in your life you will be productive..