Posted on 11/26/2008 7:02:56 PM PST by MitchellC
CHAPEL HILL - UNC-system President Erskine Bowles wants a commission to determine whether every state university campus in North Carolina should establish a university code that blocks hate speech.
No such rules now exist at UNC campuses, Bowles said.
Bowles' decision came less than a month after four N.C. State University students spray-painted political statements, which many deemed racially inflammatory and threatening, on the Free Expression Tunnel on campus.
Bowles met Tuesday afternoon with leaders of the state chapter of the NAACP. After the meeting, he declared the graffiti hate speech.
"I find this whole incident to be deplorable," Bowles told reporters. "It hurts, and it hurts deeply."
Bowles saw a photograph of one section of the graffiti for the first time Tuesday. The photo was captured by an NCSU professor who ventured to the tunnel before dawn to see how students responded to the election in a spot that's long been a place for commentary.
The graffiti suggested shooting President-elect Barack Obama in the head. It also used a racial slur.
The Rev. William J. Barber II, president of the state NAACP chapter, said the words frightened students and should have been considered a crime. He insisted such language ought not be protected under the United States Constitution's right to free speech.
In a letter sent to Bowles on Tuesday, leaders of the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union urged caution if university leaders are to consider policies that declare certain language "hate speech."
The four NCSU students responsible for the graffiti have apologized. The student who instigated the paintings will attend diversity training and do community service. No criminal charges were brought against the unnamed students.
Oh brother.
Obama has big ears!
The generation that made hate speech “hip” now wants to outlaw it.
Irksome Bowels vs The 1st Amendment? Guess who loses?
Idiots like Bowles serve in a Dem administration, lose a couple elections, then end up in charge of the Universities. No wonder the Universities have become indoctrination centers.
Were the statements accurate?
One man’s hate is another man’s free speech.
The Constitution, it’s for those crazy Patriots.
... Fixing taglne ...
Well, what did they expect? So now are they going to rename it to the Censorship Tunnel?
Bowles is a Clintonista, Bubba's chief of staff.
And the elitists will be the judge of what is considered hate speech. What a joke.
Diversity training - LOL. Has anyone been to a diversity training class? I just wonder what goes on in them and how much money the “teachers” make. Unbelievable. I guess kinda like “re-education classes”. We’re going to be seeing a lot more of this, I fear.
UNC-system President Erskine Bowles engages in hate speech by asking for restrictions on what people may say.
Let’s start a petition to draft Erskine Bowles into a third run for the Senate in 2010. That might be our only way of keeping Richard Burr in office.
Hasn’t that idiot ever heard of the First Amendment? Liberals make me sick!
Thanks but no thanks, 19th Amendment.
Someone accidentally spray painted the word Free on the sign.
We will not know the harm those people did to this Republic for decades.
Erskine has just appointed himself the Thought Police Czar.
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