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From the New York Times, March 19, 1959:
Calcutta Students Protest
CALCUTTA, India, March 18 (Reuters) — Thousands of students here attacked examination officials today, smashed furniture and tore up answer papers in protest against a stiff question in an intermediate chemistry examination. The trouble broke out simultaneously at all examination centers except two. About 15,000 to 18,000 students were involved.
Harvard’s medical student activists are still waiting.
Earlier this month, word broke that a representative of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer had been caught photographing a student demonstration against drug companies’ influence over the Harvard medical school.
In response to the revelations, Senator Charles Grassley set a one-week deadline for to Pfizer to provide him with all internal corporate documents relating to “Harvard medical students demonstrating and/or agitating against pharmaceutical influence.”
Grassley’s demand made headlines, and Pfizer promised to comply. That was fifteen days ago, however, and since then Grassley has made no further public statement on the matter.
Washington governor Christine Gregoire is considering allowing the state’s universities to impose a temporary tuition surcharge.
The governor’s proposed budget for higher education already includes a seven percent tuition hike and a thirteen percent budget cut, but campuses are bracing for more bad news in light of the economic downturn.
A tuition surcharge would be up to each university to impose, and it would expire after two years. Money from the surcharge would go directly to the campuses rather than into the state’s general fund.
A survey of more than six hundred American colleges found that more than half knowingly admit students who are in the United States illegally under at least some circumstances.
The survey, conducted by American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, found that 54 percent of the 613 schools responding knowingly admitted undocumented students, although some said they only did so if the student had graduated from an in-state high school or had certified their intention to seek legal status. Public community colleges were the most likely to admit students known to be undocumented, with 7o percent of those respondents saying they did so.
Just a heads-up: the link above leads to the website of the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the comments on that article are just as creepy as one would expect.
We noted last week that University of Montana law prof Kristen Juras had called for censorship of the U of M student newspaper, saying that its sex advice column “affects my reputation as a member of the faculty.”
She was almost right. The sex advice column wasn’t having any effect on her reputation. Dozens of campus papers have such columns, and nobody holds tax law professors responsible for the content of a school’s student newspaper anyway. If she’d just tut-tutted to herself, her reputation would have been just fine.
But she didn’t, and it isn’t.
Juras’ name now appears in eight of the top ten Google hits for ” ‘University of Montana’ sex.” Most of the top hits for her name are references to this ugly story.
So Professor Juras needs help. And Patrick from Popehat (presently number four in a Google search on “Kristen Juras”) is willing to step in:
I’m gravely concerned about Professor Juras’s ignorance of First Amendment precedent such as Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, 89 S. Ct. 733, 21 L. Ed. 2d 731 (1969), which holds that speech by students in public schools may be infringed only on a showing that it will disrupt the orderly running of the school, or is indecent. (Professor Juras does not make such a contention concerning Ms. Davis’s columns.) I’m concerned that, to the extent that what Professor Juras really seeks is to have the University censor one student, she is asking for constitutionally prohibited viewpoint discrimination under the guise of sometimes permitted content discrimination.
Moreover, and this is what really concerns me, as far as Professor Juras’s reputation is concerned, I believe that any time someone writes, “I respect free speech, but…” and then goes on to ask for censorship, that person looks like an ass, a fool, and a hypocrite.
And so, in order to protect Kristen Juras’s reputation, I am asking to be appointed as an independent monitor at the University of Montana School of Law, with authority over the writings and speech of assistant professors who teach property, business, and tax, and a requirement that all such writings and speech be cleared with me, beforehand, to the extent that they touch on political or legal topics outside the subjects of property, business transactions, and tax. (Because God, I don’t want to have to read that stuff.)
Since Kristen Juras, evidently, is unwilling to protect her own reputation, which is now that of a fool, someone else will have to do it. For her own damned good.
He’s a giver, that Patrick.
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