Posted on 10/6/2006, 3:47:53 PM by Pokey78
Free Speech on Campus is Everyone's Right and Responsibility.
The University deplores the disruption that took place last night at the "Minutemen Forum" sponsored by the Columbia College Republicans at Alfred Lerner Hall. The specific facts surrounding the incident are under active investigation by the University and so it is premature to make any official statement regarding facts that are yet to be confirmed.
This much is a matter of core principle at Columbia: The freedom to speak, to pursue ideas, and to hear and evaluate viewpoints totally objectionable to one's own is an essential value of this university and, indeed, of our civil society. We defend the right to peaceful protest and expression of opposing views. But it is never acceptable for anyone to physically take to a stage and interrupt a speaker.
Our regulations are intended to help event organizers, participants and protestors maintain a safe environment for members of the University community and their guests to engage in meaningful and sometimes contentious debate across the spectrum of academic and political issues. We will continue to review the events of last evening to determine how that safe environment was violated and take appropriate measures to ensure it does not happen again.
The leftist have always been violent - they are Nazi's only looking to kill all your Constitional rights.
Another case that proves there is no freedom of speech on college campuses. Just politically correct speech approved by the libs.
So, when are they going to expel the individuals responsible?
I saw a little bit of this as I flipped by H&C last night. Unreal. Bunch of punks.
Violent leftists BUMP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=electionviolence
Prepare for the whitewash findings.
I think actually that they have retained the Washington Park Police who were so professional and thorough in the Vince Foster 'suicide'.
...could that be an end to Conservatives speaking on campus?
Remember, it was the far left trying to get hate speech legislation passed. It would have been illegal and punishable by law to speak out against ANY left wing special interest group in any way.
That was my first thought, Republican events will not be allowed, too disruptive, etc and nothing will be done to the disruptors.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/secretary/trustees/emer_trust.html
The Trustees Emeriti of Columbia University
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER Chairman Emeritus The New York Times Company
CHARLES F. LUCE Chairman Emeritus Consolidated Edison of New York, Inc.
LAWRENCE E. WALSH Counsel Crowe & Dunlevy
CHARLES M. METZNER Senior United States District Judge U.S. District Court
MARTHA T. MUSE Chairman The Tinker Foundation, Inc.
CONNIE S. MANIATTY Honorary Managing Director Citigroup Inc.
THOMAS L. CHRYSTIE Partner (retired) Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
SAMUEL L. HIGGINBOTTOM, Chair Emeritus Chairman and President (retired) Rolls-Royce, Inc.
MICHAEL I. SOVERN, President Emeritus of the University Kent Professor of Law Columbia University
G.G. MICHELSON, Chair Emerita
WARREN H. PHILLIPS Director, Chairman and CEO (retired) Dow Jones & Co., Inc.
STANLEY L. TEMKO Senior Counsel Covington & Burling
EDWARD N. COSTIKYAN Counsel Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
JOHN GOELET Goelet Corporation
HENRY L. KING, Chair Emeritus Senior Counsel Davis Polk & Wardwell
JERRY I. SPEYER, Chair Emeritus President Tishman Speyer Properties, Inc.
JOSEPH D. WILLIAMS Chairman and CEO (retired) Warner-Lambert Company
LIONEL I. PINCUS, Chair Emeritus Chairman Warburg Pincus
MARYLIN B. LEVITT Assistant Professor George Washington University
JOHN J. CURLEY Chairman, President and CEO Gannett Co., Inc.
EDWARD BOTWINICK President Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation, Inc.
EDWIN ROBBINS Of Counsel Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
ARNOLD S. RELMAN Professor Emeritus of Medicine and of Social Medicine Harvard Medical School Editor Emeritus New England Journal of Medicine
STEPHEN FRIEDMAN, Chair Emeritus Senior Principal MMC Capital, Inc.
WALTER BURKE
JOHN E. ZUCCOTTI Chairman Brookfield Financial Properties
ANNA K. LONGOBARDO Director, Strategic Initiatives (retired) Unisys Corporation
ROBERT K. KRAFT Founder and Chairman, The Kraft Group Owner and CEO, The New England Patriots
MARGARET E. MAHONEY President MEM Associates, Inc.
DAVID J. STERN, Chair Emeritus Commissioner National Basketball Association
MATHY MEZEY Independence Professor of Nursing Education New York University
EVAN DAVIS Partner Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
GEORGE E. RUPP, President Emeritus of the University President International Rescue Committee
JOHN S. CHALSTY Chairman Muirfield Capital Management, LLC
GEORGE L. VAN AMSON Managing Director Morgan Stanley
MAUREEN A. COGAN Children's Advocate, Philanthropist
DONALD F. McHENRY Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
YUZABURO MOGI President and CEO Kikkoman Corporation
JEROME A. CHAZEN Chairman Chazen Capital Partners, LLC
LAURANS A. MENDELSON Chairman, President and CEO HEICO Corporation
Libthink: Conservatives must not be allowed to describe their point of view because they are intolerant.
Stop it! You're killin' me......
I wonder if they would have phrased it this way if a gang of skinheads had broken up a leftist meeting?
Larry Dais
Assistant Vice President/Director
Government and Community Affairs
Columbia University in the City of New York
535 W. 116th St.
Room 302 Low Library MC 4319
New York, NY 10027
Tel: (212) 854-5915
Fax: (212) 666-1952
Notice that they do not condem shouting down speakers, or in other ways disrupting the meeting, only taking the stage and physically interfering with the speaker. Thus, the time honored leftist technique of shouting down speakers is alive and well at Columbia!
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