ON CAMPUS, SHOULD YOU BE FORCED TO PAY A PRICE FOR FREE SPEECH?

http://blog.alliancedefendingfreedom.org ^ | december 27, 2013

[MaxMax]

Some colleges have “”free speech zones””. I guess the students think it’s cute.

[right way right]

I have a Beatle song in mind.........
I hate that song...:-(

[Steve_Seattle]

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.

[Verginius Rufus]

Of course it used to be private--the University of Buffalo. The first president was Millard Fillmore, former President of the US. After it became public, some administrators objected to "University of Buffalo" but decided it was OK for it to be the University at Buffalo. Where else in the US do they have that kind of usage? Ohio has the University of Cincinnati (public) and doesn't mind. Texas has the University of Houston (public). Tennessee has the University of Memphis (public). What is the matter with New York bureaucrats that "University of Buffalo" is unacceptable?

[Steve_Seattle]

University of Buffalo vs University at Buffalo

They probably thought that a city named "Buffalo" didn't really deserve a university populated by sophisticated individuals such as themselves, so by changing "of" to "at" they introduced a little "distance" between the city and the university. "Of" suggests an essential relationship, whereas "at" suggests merely a coincidence of place.

[gemoftheocean]

“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.

[Verginius Rufus]

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.

[GeronL]

AT least someone is asking a proper question, not likely to get a proper answer these days.

[trebb]

I guess Planned Parenthood would get a price break though, right?

They would probably get paid "consultant" fees vs. being charged.

[Anton.Rutter]

Freedom always costs blood in the end.