Whose Speech, Whose Campus

What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

Roman Mars

Government

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🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

As students go back to school, colleges and universities across the country are preparing for the continuation of protests against the Israel-Hamas war—and claims by other students that the protests are violating their own civil rights. Institutions and courts are now weighing the question: whose free speech matters more?

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0:00.0	Okay, so it's Thursday, September 5th at 1036 a.m. What are we going to be talking about today?
0:06.0	All right, Roman, here is a statement from the President.
0:09.0	The United States has the greatest system of higher education ever developed by man.
0:15.0	But in the past academic year, the integrity of this system involving more than 2,500 colleges and universities, and nearly 8 million students has been threatened.
0:27.4	While the overwhelming majority of those who live and work in the academic community are
0:31.5	dedicated to nonviolence, there have nevertheless been over 100
0:36.2	campuses on which violent acts have recently occurred. This situation is a matter of vital concern to all Americans.
0:45.0	The president was President Nixon, and he made that statement on June 13th, 1970.
0:51.0	In April of 1970, Nixon had announced that the United States would invade Cambodia.
0:57.5	And that invasion signaled a new expansion of the ongoing Vietnam War. And in response, college students around the country
1:05.4	renewed their protests against the war. One anti-war protest took place on the
1:10.5	campus of Kent State, Ohio on May 1st, 1970. The protest was peaceful at first, but when
1:17.7	violent confrontations broke out between protesters and the police, the governor of Ohio called in the State National Guard.
1:24.4	About a thousand guardsmen occupied the Kent State campus.
1:28.8	Tensions increased and on May 4th, 1970, a large crowd gathered on the Kent State Commons.
1:36.0	When the protesters ignored in order to disperse, some of the guardsmen fired their rifles and
1:41.8	pistols.
1:43.2	Some fired directly at the crowd.
1:46.2	Four students died and nine were wounded.
1:49.5	After the Kent State shootings,
1:51.4	Nixon convened the President's Commission on campus unrest.
1:55.8	The Commission issued a 537 page report later that same year.
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