The Fight Over Free Speech on College Campuses
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🗓️ 14 December 2023
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That debate only intensified when the Presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT testified before a Congressional committee last week about antisemitism.
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with NPR education correspondent Elissa Nadworny and first amendment lawyer Greg Lukianoff about the climate on college campuses and the tension between protecting students and supporting free speech.
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| 0:00.0 | Ami Lai Lai, the people of Israel live. |
| 0:14.0 | Hundreds of activists and students at Columbia University |
| 0:17.0 | Chanted those... |
| 0:18.0 | Protests in support of Israeli and Jewish communities. |
| 0:21.0 | Behind me we have children here, teenagers, students, |
| 0:25.0 | and protests in support of Palestinians. |
| 0:28.0 | Three people start. |
| 0:30.0 | Free we call. |
| 0:31.0 | Up up with liberation. |
| 0:34.0 | We've reignited conversations about free speech on college campuses. |
| 0:39.0 | In part, because we're seeing more university students and faculty voice concerns about rising anti-Semitism |
| 0:45.9 | along with anti-Palestinian rhetoric and actions. The issue was at the center of a heated congressional |
| 0:52.0 | hearing last week. |
| 0:53.5 | The college presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania were called to |
| 0:57.7 | testify specifically about anti-Semitism on their campuses. |
| 1:01.9 | And it all came down to this one question. |
| 1:04.6 | At Penn, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard's rules of |
| 1:11.6 | bullying and harassment? yes or no. |
| 1:14.0 | And it was a variation on this answer by the three college presidents that had cited a rapid and |
| 1:19.6 | intense and prolonged backlash. |
| 1:22.0 | It can be depending on the context. |
| 1:24.0 | If targeted at individuals not making public statements. |
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