Board of Regents holding Campus Free Speech Hearing Tomorrow AM in Brookings

Pat Powers

I just had this passed my way. The Board of Regents are having a hearing in the AM at their Brookings Meeting to discuss Campus Free Speech policies:

And here are the documents for the hearing:

Board Of Regents Free Speech background documents by Pat Powers on Scribd

Should campuses be bastions against the infringement of free speech and challenge student’s notions? Should they take a position against groupthink, and homogeneity of thought? Should they stand for the first amendment of our nation’s constitution?

I guess we’ll find out.

13 thoughts on “Board of Regents holding Campus Free Speech Hearing Tomorrow AM in Brookings”

  2. Here’s what rankles grudznick’s scruff: Why do these colleges or kids on them think they are different from any court house or the legislatures or any other partially funded with tax payer dollars place? And why would the legislatures who are insaner than most try and restrict speech in areas funded by tax dollars paid by all to only people talking about the overgodding principles? Is not what this is really all about?

    Overgodding, and jamming it down others’ maws.

  3. One has to wonder if Mr. Mickelson appointed to be the swing vote on this issue. I bet the press is thinking that.

  4. “Oversight over freedom of speech. . .”? Don’t they just mean control over what they will allow before some liberal’s feelings are hurt? This is pathetic.

  5. Whether it’s the liberal left or the conservatives on the right, either group shouldn’t be fearful of constructive criticism coming by different voices like those on our college campuses. What both sides should fear most is the group think and echo chambers in today’s poisonous political environment that fail to challenge the status quo.

    Perhaps most troubling is that the noted constitutional scholar, Rep. Michael Clark is on Panel 2 (they couldn’t find anyone else?). I sure hope he got his pocket copy of the Constitution dusted off and maybe re-read the First Amendment!

  6. What I fear most is the liberal academia shutting down conservative speech on campuses; I don’t fear for the free speech rights of the left wing to spout off their side.

  7. This is where HB 1073 and SB 198 wins. And what a win it is! The right people are talking to each other and changes are being made.

    First no one is against free speech. Some of the policies were vague, others gave too much authority to various positions.

    There are still more questions:
    However if a speaker comes to a campus, there are protests, who is going to pay for the extra security?
    Questions when it comes to religious organization.
    what kind of remedy should be employed should there be a volition
    What of electronic media
    and so much more.

    The Board of Regents, The schools, the student associations are all looking at their polices and making corrections.

    1. Why haven’t you resigned? Why hasn’t the GOP forced you to resign? Apparently the SDGOP is okay with racism.

      1. We can’t make anybody resign from the Republican Party. It’s not like we haven’t thought about it and wished we could do it.
        I think it would take the SOS’s deleting somebody’s voter registration to make that happen and I think that would be kind of unlawful, ya think?

        1. I am pondering two ways for a political party (any political party) to shed members and one of them is to get the undesirables convicted of felonies. We just need a cooperative prosecutor who will find an appropriate crime.

          Another possibility is to rig the jury pool so that the ones nobody likes are constantly called up for jury duty and don’t have time to do anything else, to the point that they decide to take themselves off the voter registration rolls.

          Any other ideas?

  8. we must be trying to attract kids from out-of-state by giving them the kind of lefty college they’re already used to

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