Posted on 08/29/2016 11:44:33 AM PDT by jazusamo
We have gotten so used to seeing college presidents and other academic "leaders" caving in to so many outrageous demands from little gangs of bullying students that it is a long overdue surprise to see a sign that at least one major university has shown some backbone.
Dr. Robert J. Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago, has spoken out in the plainest language against the stifling of opinions that differ from political correctness, on campuses across the country.
"Free speech is at risk at the very institution where it should be assured: the university," Dr. Zimmer said.
"Invited speakers are disinvited because a segment of a university community deems them offensive, while other orators are shouted down for similar reasons," he said. Demands have been made that assigned readings in some courses be eliminated because they "might make some students uncomfortable."
Worst of all, such demands "have been supported by university administrators," Dr. Zimmer pointed out.
By contrast with many other colleges and universities where speech codes restrict what students can and cannot say, freshmen students entering the University of Chicago have been informed by a letter from the Dean of Students that "freedom of expression" is one of that institution's "defining characteristics."
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My experience as a student at the University of Chicago Law School confirms Sowell’s impression. A very tough, no-nonsense school that made no effort to coddle students. I got my money’s worth.
He was inflicted on this University much as he was inflicted on America without even the charade of an election.
I got “mine” at the University of Illinois where even as far back as the 1950’s the Marxist professors there were preaching such doctrine as “Not everyone is entitled to his own opinion”. Cuidado America. They are coming after this nation full tilt and will not stop until they are eradicated with extreme prejudice.
Allan Bloom (Closing of the American Mind) was on the faculty there.
That book was a predictor of no education mental midgets such as Hillary and Dorkbama the Muslim Eunuch.
Great school.
“I’m proud to say that the University of Chicago is my kid brother’s alma mater. Further proof that strings were pulled to have a faculty position here waiting for B.H. Obama as soon as he graduated from Harvard Law School.
He was inflicted on this University much as he was inflicted on America without even the charade of an election. “
His fellow teachers at U of C called him lazy, and not scholarly.....uh DUH : )
And he hasn't changed one iota!
He just got more lazy, and more evil.
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