Posted on 12/28/2013 4:08:25 PM PST by lowbridge
Many public universities are seeking to silence campus groups with unpopular ideas by charging heavy fees when the student group hosts events the administration deems too controversial.
And all too often, the campus groups singled out for these fees are Christian or conservative.
This is exactly what happened to a pro-life student group at the University at Buffalo. The group hosted a debate on the morality of abortion and was charged fees for campus security. But at the same time and in the same building as the pro-life debate, another student group hosted a debate on religion versus atheism, and was not required to pay for security.
The difference was that the universitys policy on student events allowed administrators to require security for controversial speech or any other reason they saw fit.
In defiance of protections in the U.S. Constitution, some schools like the University at Buffalo have seen fit to impose a price for free speech.
If universities can force student groups to pay a price for free speech, what is the constitutional guarantee of free speech worth?
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Some colleges have “”free speech zones””. I guess the students think it’s cute.
I have a Beatle song in mind.........
I hate that song...:-(
Reminds me of an incident in a Seattle suburb a few years ago when Bush or Cheney attended a fundraiser which was greeted by protestors of one sort or another. The police billed the Republican Party for the additional security, even though it was the presence of the protestors that caused the alleged need for extra security.
“They know the extremist reside on the Leftist side of the isle, and therefore more apt to cause trouble as their sacred cow is being gorged..”
If they were on a damned “isle” we’d be a lot better off. Unfortunately those creeps are normally just on the other side of the “aisle” which makes them harder to avoid.
I think the other research universities in the system also use “at” but may have less of a history than UB. I know someone who is an alumnus of SUNY-Binghamton (Ph.D.), and he refers to it as Binghamton University. The other two are at Albany and Stony Brook. There is another public university in Buffalo—SUNY College at Buffalo, or Buff State.
AT least someone is asking a proper question, not likely to get a proper answer these days.
They would probably get paid "consultant" fees vs. being charged.
Freedom always costs blood in the end.
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