UA Student Free Speech Rebellion Continues
The student resolution, which was approved unanimously, repudiated the Faculty Senate's earlier "hate speech" resolution (also approved without a dissenting vote).
In an act of gross overreaction to an incident involving alleged anti-gay comments by a comedian on campus, the UA Faculty Senate passed a resolution claiming that the University"has a duty reflected both in law and in standards of civility to control behavior which demeans or reduces an individual based on group affiliation or personal characteristics, or which promotes hate or discrimination, in all formal programs and activities."
Such a broadly worded statement clearly opens the way for the University to adopt a speech code that would violate the civil rights of UA students.
We dare defend our rights! That is the Alabama state motto. That is also what the UA student Senate said to the UA Faculty Senate when it unanimously passed a resolution defending UA students' civil right to free speech on Feb. 24.
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