A white professor of philosophy, who is Jewish, writes in a magazine article that blacks have been less successful in school than whites not because of racial bias, but because the average black is significantly less intelligent that the average white. A faculty colleague on the same campus, who is African-American, charges at a state-sponsored arts festival that there has been a conspiracy, planned and plotted and programmed out of Hollywood, where ...Russian Jewry had a particular control over the movies, and their financial partners, the Mafia, put together a system of destruction of black people.A senior professor of electrical engineering at a Midwestern private university insists that the Holocaust never happened. He attributes the death of millions of Jews in Europe during the 1930s to illness and suicide. An African-American professor at an eastern state university tells his students he sees Zionism as one prime example of reactive racism, his other example being Nazism. Help! Here's a crisis we never expected - but maybe that's the definition of crisis in our business.
The Black Student Alliance has invited Khalid Abdul Muhammad to campus next fall as part of an African-American awareness program. They've filled out all the right forms, and provided the necessary information. The auditorium is (I'm sorry to report) free on that evening. The question of the hour is whether we have to provide a forum on our campus for someone we know will surely spew hate against almost every group in sight.In the last three weeks, we have had dozens of different complaints about the uses and abuses of campus computers. Some people have called the campus police to say they have heard our students have been using the computing system to post really vile and revolting stuff on the Internet, and they want us to stop it. In fact, these complaints run the gamut of cyberspace...What troubles me most is that we are about to enter a brand new legal world with hardlyh any policies or rules that cover electronic speech. These are examples from some of the cases, all of them based on real situations, which are treated in this timely book.
Bob O'Neil, a former university president, asks the question: Should speech on the university campus be freer than speech on the streets, in the malls, and parks?He dramatically illustrates the many types of problems that confront university administrators today, frequently using imagined characters and exchanges of memorandums to present the issues. All of the issues that are likely to come up involving different situations and media are dealt with in this book. Should speech and other first amendment freedoms be freer on the college campus than in the society at large? How should these issues be dealt with? "Free Speech in the College Community" has the answers.
- ISBN10 0585225702
- ISBN13 9780585225708
- Publish Date December 1997 (first published 22 February 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 272
- Language English