PROFESSOR FRINK?
Posted on 02/27/2017 2:21:34 PM PST by ItsOnlyDaryl
University of California, Los Angeles professor Keith Fink teaches a course on free speech that is so popular his department chair decided to limit enrollment.
Fink has been teaching courses focusing on free speech issues for ten years now—each year with historically large class sizes, sometimes attracting as many as 245 students with his most popular seminars.
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Until recently, there had never been an issue with Fink giving out PTE (permission to enroll) numbers to students who wanted to enroll in the courses. Generally, the department sets an initial enrollment cap for the class at around 200 students, but Fink has the right to override that limit if he chooses.
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Free speech is only a right if you’re a member of
an organized well regulated media...
This Monday seems to be a strange day for satisfying news.
He should offer a second session of it.
The course syllabus:
http://moodle2.sscnet.ucla.edu/local/ucla_syllabus/index.php?id=8441
PROFESSOR FRINK?
I’d need to have a general idea about what defines
free speech in the eyes of the prof before I would
invest time and money.
For a moment, I thought this was one of the judges on the Ninth Circus.
I live close enough to UCLA that there are newspaper boxes giving away the Daily Bruin for free near me and I sometimes grab them to read while I get coffee at Charbucks. I’m not making this up, during the whole hysteria about the supposed rape committed by Duke lacrosse players there was an article in the Daily Bruin warning people that a Black man had recently raped several students by hiding in women’s bathrooms late at night. So flawed accusations against whites are front page news but confirmed rapes are ... hidden in the middle of the Daily Bruin and not mentioned at all in the L.A. Times.
I told a friend of mine from Singapore about this. He said in his country the police would run nightly sweeps through all the women’s bathrooms in the entire neighborhood and any man found in one without a legitimate reason would spend years in jail even if he couldn’t be connected to any crime. But in America its just a mild warning hidden in the middle of the Daily Bruin.
Wow, great course, and at UCLA, taught by a UCLA alum.
Constitution is a piece of paper.
The 2nd Amendment makes people respect it.
I just read the course syllabus — it looks like a great course! The questions are all topical and thought provoking (as befits the “Socratic method”, which the prof says he uses in lieu of lectures).
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