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The Trump Administration Says Colleges Are Suppressing Free Speech. How Should They Respond?

October 03, 2017 / PSU-AAUP

The Chronicle of Higher Education
By Sarah Brown
October 2, 2017

When officials at the University of Utah learned in late August that a student group had invited Ben Shapiro, a fiery conservative commentator, to speak on campus, they had to grapple with an increasingly thorny questions: how to ensure that everyone's free speech rights - both Mr. Shapiro's and those of the student protesters - would be protected.

The university's administration from the public safety, communications, and student affairs units started meeting a month in advance.  They even sent a team to the University of California at Berkeley, so officials could see how that institution handled the controversial speakers who were invited to campus this spring.  When Mr. Shapiro spoke last week, hundreds of students protested, two people were arrested, and several others were briefly detained.  The university spent about $25,000 on security costs.

Read the full article at The Chronicle of Higher Ed's website here.

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