#freespeechmovement — Public Fediverse posts
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Originally published in Synapse on February 17, 1965.
"As a result of recent action on the part of The Regents and consultation with student and faculty groups, Chancellor Saunders has designated certain campus areas which may be used by students and staff for “planning, implementing, raising funds, and recruiting participants for lawful off-campus action.”
https://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2025/02/18/date-ucsf-history-four-free-speech-campus-areas-designated #History #FreeSpeechMovement #StudentActivism #HigherEd
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Erwin Chemerinsky the Dean at #BerkeleyLaw explains the historical & rhetorical significance of #FreeSpeech on the 60th Anniversary of the campus #FreeSpeechMovement.
Ironically #Chemerinsky has become embroiled in a #FreeSpeech predicament with #StudentProtesters in support of #Palestine who emerged at an event at his home, where his wife physically confronted a female #CampusRadical student using a microphone. Dean Chemerinsky has since editorialized that "Our home is not a forum for free speech."
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"[Robert Cohen, NYU history and social studies prof] wrote:“college administrations in the Vietnam era used police force as a last resort in the face of major campus disruptions, this past semester administrators used police as a first resort to suppress student protests even when those protesters — encamped outdoors on campus plazas or lawns — did not commit major disruptions of the university & its educational functions.”