If you missed it, this is an extremely sensible statement of adult principles for handling protests.
Far too mature and non-performative for many administrators, regrettably.
Principles for university governance of protests:
1) *actual* threats to the safety of other university members, which is not the same as "chants and posters that arguably evoke and approve of violence elsewhere in the world," can't be tolerated.
2) *actual* impairment of the safety of other
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And with a strong-willed child, you will lose. Every time.
I speak from long experience and the child who irked me so now has a child of her own. Who wins every battle.
Circle of life.
And it’s still more or less being sensibly handled. “Protest over there. Not here. No tents here. We only arrest people who interfere.”
www.news-gazette.com/news/local/u...
I think it’s reasonable for private universities to impose some restrictions on the content of the speech. Universities have student codes of conduct. Enforcing them is fair.
But I totally agree that you don’t need the cops cracking down. Illinois just handled a student protest fairly well.
The admin at Northwestern, after a false start, is leaning in to those principles. As long as there’s no damage, disruptions to academics, or violence, the protestors can stay there while they negotiate. Campus police and security are there to ensure those things and nothing else.
