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Labor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Affordability"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Austerity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Covid-19"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"democratic university"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Governance"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guest post"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Inequality"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"reparations"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Transparency"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Principles for a Post-COVID University"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-jF6t8eD4Wj4\/Xs_q5J-OXuI\/AAAAAAAAEiM\/au9mKUH_9jgIsNNTEJP-OdIWyb7eAyT0gCPcBGAYYCw\/s1600\/NYU%2BPurple%2BNurses%252Bin%252Bmasks.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"752\" data-original-width=\"1000\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-jF6t8eD4Wj4\/Xs_q5J-OXuI\/AAAAAAAAEiM\/au9mKUH_9jgIsNNTEJP-OdIWyb7eAyT0gCPcBGAYYCw\/s320\/NYU%2BPurple%2BNurses%252Bin%252Bmasks.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nStatement from the American Association of University Professors chapter at New York University \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EIn ordinary circumstances, most of what AAUP chapters do is reactive—stepping up to advocate for the protection of faculty and student rights when they are under threat. At a time when higher education’s morbid expectation of its future is one of crushing austerity and, for some colleges, extinction, our NYU group decided to be proactive and assemble some principles for a post-COVID university. This was not done because we labor under the illusion that a university can be a morally purified space. Instead, we wanted to honor (by gathering together) the ideas and suggestions and arguments for reforming our institution that we have heard being made by faculty and students over the years. Of course, many of the action items on the list are far above our pay grade, but, at some point, we have to start behaving like self-organizing employees of the more humane workplace outlined here. \u003C\/i\u003E--Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n**** \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EPrinciples for a Post-COVID University\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHow should NYU play its role in a “just recovery” from the COVID crisis? How can we build on the experience of the crisis and from the opinions, grievances, and solidarity that circulated in NYU communities during this period? In thinking about how the university can sustain and rebuild itself, the AAUP envisions NYU as a more transparent, democratic, caring and resilient institution, prioritizing the equitable treatment and rights of its students and employees, minimizing the cost of attendance, and striving more single-mindedly to live up to its motto—“a private university in the public service.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFor too long, NYU policy has been dictated by debt-leveraged expansionary growth, domestically and overseas, and by an institutional desire for upward mobility as measured by national and international rankings. Post-COVID, and in the spirit of social and ecological sustainability, we would like to see NYU focus on thriving in place rather than reaching after “performance” goals that are defined by financial institutions or managerial value metrics.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ETransparency\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWith the university’s finances under pressure, now is the time to provide faculty, students and staff full access to NYU’s fiscal affairs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nParticipatory budgeting should be a key component of the transition to transparency\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nExecutive policy-making should be open to faculty review, and senior administrators should draw more routinely on faculty expertise\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTop-level decision-makers should consult and solicit input from the faculty body before making large-scale policy moves, especially on GNU matters\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe terms of operation of global branches – in Abu Dhabi, Shanghai, and other GNU “nodes” -- should be transparent to the entire NYU community.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EDemocratic\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe faculty role in shared governance, as recognized by AAUP principles, should be fully restored and clarified.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe NYU administration should agree and affirm that the Faculty Handbook is contractually binding.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFaculty and students should be represented on the Board of Trustees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFaculty who are elected, and not handpicked, should serve on committees to choose senior administrators, including the Provost and President.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMinutes of BOT and administrative leadership meetings should be accessible to faculty and students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe right to organize (including that of contract and tenure-track faculty) should be upheld and encouraged, and NYU should recognize any bargaining unit formed by a majority of its eligible members.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCommunity-driven town halls and plenary assemblies should be instituted on the NYU Calendar to inform and review institutional decision-making.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ECaring\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU should be a sanctuary campus, prioritizing safety and sanctuary to members of the university and its host communities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nResources and legal assistance should be extended to vulnerable and marginalized community members.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU should not operate branches of the university, domestic or overseas, in breach of its nondiscrimination policies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEmployees and students should have (free) access to comprehensive health care at Langone-Grossman if they choose.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWorkplace welfare councils (with faculty, student, and staff representation) should be elected in every university unit to safeguard employee well-being and workplace quality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAffordable\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEvery effort should be made to lower tuition and retire NYU’s reputation as poster child for student debt.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU’s unequal pay structures should be addressed, including gender salary gaps, salary compression, and the role of underrepresentation of minority faculty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSenior administrator salaries should be sliced, and nonacademic administrative personnel positions downsized.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU should establish a much more equitable range spread between the highest and lowest paid of NYU employees, with total compensation packages included in these re-adjustments.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSalary and student fellowship increases should be tied to COLA, and not merit evaluations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU should secure the steady conversion of NTT into TT faculty positions at every GNU location and in its US campuses; as a preliminary goal, NYU should aim for not more than 25% NTT positions in 5 years across the university.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU should extend protections comparable to those that accrue to tenure to all full-time faculty who have served continuously for seven years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFaculty housing rent should be capped at an affordable percentage of income.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ESustainable\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU’s carbon footprint should be minimized and its endowed funds should divest from the fossil fuel industry, and all enterprises involved in incarceration, immigrant detention, and military production.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAir travel, to global sites and to academic meetings, should be curtailed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCross-disciplinary climate crisis research and study should be prioritized.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNew environmental justice and climate justice initiatives should be targeted and funded.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU should adopt an environmental stewardship role in downtown Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn, modelling and propagating just practices.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EPublic Service\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSince NYU sits on occupied lands of Lenni Lenape peoples, it should fully adopt a charter of decolonial ethics and practice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU should extend public access (for meetings, workshops, assemblies) to its underutilized classrooms and buildings when they are not being used. It should also seek to provide students across the city access to its libraries and online research resources.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU should prioritize pathways for students from New York public schools and community colleges to matriculate at NYU; it should also extend and deepen support to such institutions in other ways that those institutions identify as arenas for collaboration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU should make special efforts to support DACA and undocumented students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU’s reach as a landlord and real estate owner should be surveyed and redefined to help address the city’s urgent housing crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRepresentatives from Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn communities should have the right to review and participate in the approval of all new building and expansion plans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLocal community representatives should have the right to serve on a committee for developing university-community initiatives that will benefit from NYU’s research and resources.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003ERacial and Social Justice\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIndigenous study and engagement should be instituted and encouraged in all university programs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU resources should prioritize the reduction of institutional inequalities for students, staff and faculty of color, along with LGBTQ, disabled community members, DACA and undocumented students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU should insist on staffing reforms on the part of departments and units with an overwhelming majority of white instructors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGender balance and racial diversity should be adopted as an institutional principle of all NYU workplaces.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTruly affordable housing should be made available for faculty of color and first-generation academics who often have higher student debt burdens than their peers and cannot rely on family wealth. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EGlobal University?\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU should convene a community-wide review of the GNU mission and its record.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFree movement of students and scholars across borders and GNU sites should be guaranteed by NYU and host authorities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU should loudly and visibly protest travel and enrollment restrictions at its GNU sites and NYC campuses and lobby the relevant political authorities to lift those restrictions. In cases where there are boycotts of NYU campuses by faculty and students in other parts of NYU because of these restrictions, NYU should recognize these as fundamental expressions of academic freedom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAcademic freedom protections, in all of the forms and expressions recognized by the AAUP, should be guaranteed across all NYU sites.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU should uphold the right of all employees, including those contracted to construct and maintain GNU buildings, to be protected by the ILO's basic international labor standards.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNYU should insist that US authorities remedy the challenges faced by international students and faculty--travel restrictions, embassy closures, and impractical visa protocols.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; The Executive Committee of the NYU Chapter of the AAUP\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 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Marie Monaco, Immediate past President\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1691835440695761544\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/principles-for-post-covid-university.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1691835440695761544"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1691835440695761544"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/principles-for-post-covid-university.html","title":"Principles for a Post-COVID University"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-jF6t8eD4Wj4\/Xs_q5J-OXuI\/AAAAAAAAEiM\/au9mKUH_9jgIsNNTEJP-OdIWyb7eAyT0gCPcBGAYYCw\/s72-c\/NYU%2BPurple%2BNurses%252Bin%252Bmasks.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-2313356488874336228"},"published":{"$t":"2020-02-24T22:01:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-02-24T22:01:17.028-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Administrative Overreach"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Graduates"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Students"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UCSC"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Faculty Letter Opposing Request that UCSC Undergrads Inform on Disruptors"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rjYQu_euliQ\/XlS3xjeZzEI\/AAAAAAAAEUE\/iBbK1ycG6FcQ2Kdg2d_ivBOFiNcrvteqwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/Informant%2BIntercept%2Bheader.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"808\" data-original-width=\"1346\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rjYQu_euliQ\/XlS3xjeZzEI\/AAAAAAAAEUE\/iBbK1ycG6FcQ2Kdg2d_ivBOFiNcrvteqwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/Informant%2BIntercept%2Bheader.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EFebruary 13, 2020\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EDear Chancellor Larive and Campus Provost and Executive Vice\nChancellor Kletzer,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EWe, the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cascholars4academicfreedom.wordpress.com\/\"\u003ECalifornia Scholars for Academic Freedom\u003C\/a\u003E,* a group\nof over two hundred scholars throughout California, write with grave concern\nabout the Google form “Notification of Class and Section Disruption” sent on\nFebruary 7, 2020 to UCSC undergraduates in relation to the graduate student\nstrike demanding a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA).\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThis form asks students to surveil and report on\nconversations occurring in the course of instruction.\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EIt sets a dangerous precedent of\nsurveillance that undermines the core principles of academic freedom. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EThe university produces knowledge and practice\ncritical to the operations of a democracy. The ideal of academic freedom is at\nthe core of the university in a democratic society.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EAcademic freedom is a cornerstone of education\nin a free society. Its definition includes such items as what are called ‘the\nfour essential freedoms’ of a university, to determine, on academic grounds,\nwho will teach, what they may teach, how they teach and who may study. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EAcademic freedom requires that faculty and\nstudents can participate in intellectual debate free of any censorship or\nretaliation. Central to academic freedom is that the political, religious, or\nphilosophical beliefs of others, including politicians, administrators and\nmembers of the public shall not be imposed on students or faculty.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003ECalifornia\nScholars for Academic Freedom call on you rescind the link to the Google form and refuse to use any data collected\nthrough that mechanism as the grounds for disciplinary measures against faculty\nand students.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EOn behalf\nof California Scholars for Academic Freedom,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003ESusan Slyomovics\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EDistinguished Professor of Anthropology and\nNear Eastern Languages and Cultures\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"mailto:ssly@anthro.ucla.edu\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Essly@anthro.ucla.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EWalid\nAfifi\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EUniversity\nof California - Santa Barbara\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EProfessor,\nDept of Communication\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EDirector,\nCenter for Middle East Studies\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\n\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: 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Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rjYQu_euliQ\/XlS3xjeZzEI\/AAAAAAAAEUE\/iBbK1ycG6FcQ2Kdg2d_ivBOFiNcrvteqwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/Informant%2BIntercept%2Bheader.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-1836189963144395027"},"published":{"$t":"2020-01-25T11:04:00.003-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-01-25T12:55:36.758-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Discrimination"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"International"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"MLA Statement on Violence Against Students and Teachers in India"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UpGza7e3aMc\/XiyRIDgi7uI\/AAAAAAAAC70\/PrY_pEvBgvs5lDmTiDKRX7GEKxW-_LomwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/indian%2Bstudents%2Bprotesting_110411072_gettyimages-1192058872-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"371\" data-original-width=\"660\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UpGza7e3aMc\/XiyRIDgi7uI\/AAAAAAAAC70\/PrY_pEvBgvs5lDmTiDKRX7GEKxW-_LomwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/indian%2Bstudents%2Bprotesting_110411072_gettyimages-1192058872-1.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nIn recent weeks, supporters of Prime Minister Modi's government have increased attacks (both physical and verbal) against secular institutions of higher education in India--particularly in response to protests against the passage of a new citizenship law that is discriminatory against Muslims.\u0026nbsp; You can find a first person account at \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/academeblog.org\/2020\/01\/12\/violent-assault-on-indian-university-eyewitness-report\/\"\u003EAcademe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and further coverage \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/06\/students-injured-in-india-after-masked-attackers-raid-top-university\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn January, the Executive Council of the MLA issued a statement in protest of the violence against students and teachers.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;You can find the link \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mla.org\/About-Us\/Governance\/Executive-Council\/Executive-Council-Actions\/2020\/Statement-on-Violence-against-Students-and-Teachers-in-India\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; I am also posting the Statement itself:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003EIn January 2020, the Executive Council approved the following statement\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;\"\u003E\nWe condemn the physical assaults on students and teachers in India, most recently at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia University, and Aligarh Muslim University, and the continued violence against students and members of the press, the opposition, and the public, who exercise their rights of assembly and dissent in opposing the national Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). These protests question new steps that allow state discrimination against citizens purely on the basis of religion and\u0026nbsp;thus contravene India's own constitutional commitment to secularism.\u0026nbsp;The Indian government is advancing Hindutva (the idea that Hindus are united in a Hindu nation-state\u0026nbsp;that privileges Hindus) while legitimizing discrimination against other denominations,\u0026nbsp;fanning polarizing rhetoric in public discourse, and setting the stage for confrontation and violence that plays out on campuses and affects academic life. The CAA establishes expedited pathways to citizenship for Hindu, Sikh, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, and Christian (but not Muslim) refugees. It also excludes a range of refugees from Myanmar, Bhutan, China, and Sri Lanka. The act, which represents an escalation of Hindu nationalism, simultaneously and exclusively casts \"Muslim\" states as perpetrators of violence against minorities and does not recognize Muslim groups as victims of state violence on a par with those of other religions seeking asylum and, ultimately, citizenship. The Indian government has responded to protests against the act with unprecedented violence on campuses and in the public sphere and routinely criminalizes the assembly of five or more people in order to sanction its brutality in suppressing the protests.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px;\"\u003E\nWe urge India,\u0026nbsp;a signatory and drafting member of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, to consider the declaration's basic tenets, which the passing and implementation of CAA appear to violate (in particular, articles 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 14, 18, 19, 20 [1]).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;We urge the government to honor the rights of assembly and dissent, to protect academic freedom, to protect teachers and students in its educational institutions against violence on campus, and to create stable conditions for open dialogue on any proposed changes in the university and on state policy, citizenship, immigration, and assembly. We urge the government to take immediate action to penalize the perpetrators of violence against students. We urge the government to give ownership of, and jurisdiction over, university curricula, research, and institutional positions to the faculty and to safeguard the basic rights of students and faculty members to pursue their educational goals without suffering violence, poverty, and the loss of life. We condemn, unequivocally, and call for the immediate cessation of sanctioned violence on campus in India and the assault on the democratic principles of equality, freedom, and the right to espouse viewpoints without fear of reprisal.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1836189963144395027\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/mla-statement-on-violence-against.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1836189963144395027"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/1836189963144395027"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/mla-statement-on-violence-against.html","title":"MLA Statement on Violence Against Students and Teachers in India"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Meranze"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05336793340375780406"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UpGza7e3aMc\/XiyRIDgi7uI\/AAAAAAAAC70\/PrY_pEvBgvs5lDmTiDKRX7GEKxW-_LomwCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/indian%2Bstudents%2Bprotesting_110411072_gettyimages-1192058872-1.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4373889095948761806"},"published":{"$t":"2020-01-10T10:08:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-01-10T10:14:37.287-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fake Knowledge"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Neoliberalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"public goods"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Research"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"In Defense of Knowledge"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-snZGX4HZfZw\/Xhi_AH2Yi1I\/AAAAAAAAC5E\/m0xvATXciKYnDLDX_bGGyWlZlKsgG2phQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/classrom%2Bfor%2Bknowlege.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"183\" data-original-width=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-snZGX4HZfZw\/Xhi_AH2Yi1I\/AAAAAAAAC5E\/m0xvATXciKYnDLDX_bGGyWlZlKsgG2phQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/classrom%2Bfor%2Bknowlege.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nEarlier this week, the AAUP issued a new statement entitled \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.aaup.org\/report\/defense-knowledge-and-higher-education\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003EIn Defense of Knowledge and Higher Education\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;In it, the AAUP offers both a defense of the importance of knowledge opposed to opinion and a critique of the growing efforts to undermine the authority of scholars and expertise.\u0026nbsp; It helps clarify the relationship between Academic Freedom and Free Speech and marks the importance of defending the ongoing collective work of scholarly and academic communities.\u0026nbsp; As it concludes:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #484548; font-size: 14.994px; margin-bottom: 1.2em;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn 1915 the founders of the AAUP characterized the university as “an inviolable refuge” from the “tyranny of public opinion,” as “an intellectual experiment station, where new ideas may germinate,” but also as “the conservator of all genuine elements of value in the past thought and life of mankind which are not in the fashion of the moment.” On that basis they asserted “not the absolute freedom of utterance of the individual scholar, but the absolute freedom of thought, of inquiry, of discussion and of teaching, of the academic profession.”\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.aaup.org\/report\/defense-knowledge-and-higher-education#fn21\" style=\"color: #007aad; text-decoration-line: none;\"\u003E\u003Csup\u003E21\u003C\/sup\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;They pledged, as do we, to safeguard freedom of inquiry and of teaching against both covert and overt attacks and to guarantee the long-established practices and principles that define the production of knowledge.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #484548; font-size: 14.994px; margin-bottom: 1.2em;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIt is up to those who value knowledge to take a stand in the face of those who would assault it, to convey to a broad public the dangers that await us—as individuals and as a society—should that pledge be abandoned.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nI urge everyone to read and share it.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4373889095948761806\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/in-defense-of-knowledge.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4373889095948761806"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4373889095948761806"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/in-defense-of-knowledge.html","title":"In Defense of Knowledge"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Meranze"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05336793340375780406"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-snZGX4HZfZw\/Xhi_AH2Yi1I\/AAAAAAAAC5E\/m0xvATXciKYnDLDX_bGGyWlZlKsgG2phQCLcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/classrom%2Bfor%2Bknowlege.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-3696469701003866473"},"published":{"$t":"2018-11-30T09:32:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-07-17T07:24:45.026-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guest post"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Policing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Davis"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Riverside"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Fiat Lux, Free Speech, and Police Violence"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-LPcQute1kEM\/XAFsxzoIpyI\/AAAAAAAADvw\/P36VAWIA9cogK4WJCGI427lsnOMT0DengCLcBGAs\/s1600\/General-Barrows-Armistice-Day%2B1926.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"480\" data-original-width=\"600\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-LPcQute1kEM\/XAFsxzoIpyI\/AAAAAAAADvw\/P36VAWIA9cogK4WJCGI427lsnOMT0DengCLcBGAs\/s320\/General-Barrows-Armistice-Day%2B1926.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EComments from the 150th Anniversary Symposium of the University of California Academic Senate, Oakland, California, October 27, 2018,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003Eby \u003C\/i\u003EDylan Rodríguez,\u003Ci\u003E Chair of the UC Riverside Academic Senate, Professor, Department of Media and Cultural Studies\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E[Photo: Gen. David Barrows, Armistice Day, 1926, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.foundsf.org\/index.php?title=File:General-Barrows-Armistice-Day.jpg\"\u003EFoundSF\u003C\/a\u003E.]\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLet us reconsider the full historical context of the University of California’s founding moment and the context in which it coined its motto, “Fiat Lux.”\u0026nbsp; A brief reflection on the UC’s political, geographic, and historical conditions of possibility may offer some vital complexity and depth to recent college- and university-based discourses on free speech and academic freedom, while raising deeper questions about the notions of “speech” and “freedom” in-and-of-themselves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe founding of the University of California represents a particular confrontation between Western Euroamerican modernity and the high point of Manifest Destiny—a nation-building cultural, political, and military regime that is inseparable from the UC’s academic and juridical infrastructure.\u0026nbsp; During this extended period, the UC’s founding faculty and administrators were engaged in a variety of global colonial projects, which is to say racial colonial projects, including the US conquest and protracted colonial governance of the Philippines.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, i spent a lot of time in a building named after David Barrows, President of the University of California from 1919-1923.\u0026nbsp; Barrows had an interest in California Indians, particularly the Cahuilla Tribe, the topic of his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Chicago (where else?).\u0026nbsp; Before he became the UC president, Barrows played a pivotal role in the US colonization of the Philippines, during which the US military was engaged in a genocidal military campaign to liquidate and neutralize indigenous resistance to colonial occupation throughout the archipelago.\u0026nbsp; As people and ecologies were destroyed, burned, and displaced, Barrows accepted an appointment as Chief of the “Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes of the Philippine Islands.”\u0026nbsp; I imagine that if he were awakened from his mortal slumber, President Barrows might concede that the conditions of his own “academic freedom,” of his freedom to speak and his “freedom of speech,” were not only entangled in but constituted by his lifelong engagements with projects of colonial dominance, from the Cahuilla to the “non-Christian” Philippine tribes.\u0026nbsp; “Fiat Lux” indeed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAcross these and other historical political geographies of racial-colonial dominance, modern law, rights, and disciplinary academic knowledges affirm white life’s ascendancy over all other life.\u0026nbsp; This has been the historical, if generally tacit mission statement of the modern university, including the University of California.\u0026nbsp; War against other life, culture, ecology, and sociality is the genesis of law, rights, and university epistemologies in this instance, structuring the “civility” and the “freedom” that disciplines those who are on the historical margins of that civil society, the underside of the thing called Civilization.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn this sense, it is horrifically appropriate that so many of us engaged in the counter-knowledge productions of critical ethnic studies, queer studies, gender and feminist studies, and decolonial studies have encountered David Barrows’ bronze bust in that building at UC Berkeley.\u0026nbsp; His visage reminds us that the intellectual space and infrastructure to engage in such counter-knowledge production is the outcome of intense, rigorous, collective social movement that critically extends the entitlements of academic freedom while confronting the ways in which the institutional stability constructed around the edifices of academic freedom is actively policed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAllow me to turn to the fact of policing in the second half of my reflections on this 150th anniversary.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA spectacle of police violence at UC Davis on November 18, 2011 catalyzed a national and international response, fixated on the vulnerable bodies of young white people engaged in an act of civil disobedience. (With all due respect to the people of color who were also in the line of fire at Davis, my contention is that their bodies were not the ones with which the national and international response was primarily concerned, nor was their vulnerability centrally responsible for inciting this global outrage in the first place.)\u0026nbsp; Largely displaced by the righteous outcry over the UC Davis police’s pepper spraying of students in November 2011 was a more massive and militarized display of police force\/violence that occurred at my home campus of UC Riverside two months later, on January 19, 2012.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOn this day, UCR students were shot with “less than lethal” police pellets during protests of tuition\/fee increases at a meeting of the UC Regents.\u0026nbsp; (Here i will gently suggest that we modify our language to acknowledge that these actions might be more comprehensively described as “debt protests.”)\u0026nbsp; In anticipation of this student-led demonstration, police were mobilized from every UC campus other than Davis and Merced, supplemented by officers from the City of Riverside Police Department and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.\u0026nbsp; Police helicopters periodically circled over the protest, while officers appeared to assume sniper positions at strategic high points on several campus buildings.\u0026nbsp; The climate was thick with police presence, and the pageantry of political intimidation represented a massive show of force against the students, faculty, staff, and ordinary people who populated the crowd.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NaYTerSgWnY\/XAFyLLn8zrI\/AAAAAAAADv8\/Bv7E2h7iVN4694K0-RUVkDV2qvEsXLfNwCLcBGAs\/s1600\/Riverside%2BCopLine%2BDylanRodriguez.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NaYTerSgWnY\/XAFyLLn8zrI\/AAAAAAAADv8\/Bv7E2h7iVN4694K0-RUVkDV2qvEsXLfNwCLcBGAs\/s640\/Riverside%2BCopLine%2BDylanRodriguez.jpg\" width=\"613\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003ERiot police confronting student protest at UC Regents meeting, UC Riverside, January 19, 2012 (photo courtesy of the author)\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis police presence starkly contrasted with the protest’s well-disciplined adherence to tactics of “nonviolence.” (By way of definition, i do not consider loud chants, intense and vitriolic rhetorics of protest, militant refusal to disperse an alleged “unlawful assembly” or sit-down blockades to constitute “violence”; further, even if one wishes to perform the academic gymnastics of labeling such activities as forms of discursive, symbolic, existential, and\/or immanent violence, they are not of a kind remotely comparable to the aforementioned marshaling of legitimated state violence.) For reasons i have explained elsewhere, we should not be surprised that UC Riverside’s scene of police repression—images of which were easily accessible via e-mail listservs, public YouTube videos, Facebook photos, and the like—did not attract remotely the kind of attention and righteous reaction as did the incident at UC Davis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere is something structurally white supremacist about how expressions of outrage and institutional shaming over the UC Davis police spectacle seemed to be fueled by an overidentification with (historically white) university campuses as places of presumed innocence, wherein enrolled and employed (white) bodies are presumed to presume innocence.\u0026nbsp; On the other hand, UC Riverside students generally signify (and biographically reflect) the normalized policing and criminalization of Black, Native, and Brown people—young and old, urban and rural, transgender, queer, and straight.\u0026nbsp; Such bodies—such people—are incapable of extracting the consensus of liberal outrage surrounding (and ultimately protecting) the repressive university policing of white, able-bodied college youth.\u0026nbsp; Thus, while all campus policing is fundamentally “political,” only a select few of its most acute forms are addressed as such.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThere is a punchline to this story that takes place in a former UCR Chancellor’s living room…\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDuring this period, Chancellor Tim White periodically invited groups of department chairs to his residence for friendly dinners, during which he engaged us in conversation about things we felt were important to the campus.\u0026nbsp; During the dinner i attended, a fellow departmental chair and i raised concerns over the heavy handedness of the police response to the nonviolent, student-led action of January 19.\u0026nbsp; (Other chairs seemed either unaware of this matter or uninterested in raising such criticisms of police violence and administrative complicity.)\u0026nbsp; After eating, the fellow chair and i sat with Chancellor White on his living room couch.\u0026nbsp; He looked us both in the eye and, in a most calm and reassuring tone, expressed sympathy with our concerns and informed us that he had taken pains to instruct the police to shoot the student protestors “below the knees.”\u0026nbsp; My colleague and i took turns staring at each other and the floor.\u0026nbsp; Not long thereafter, i watched Chancellor White shed crocodile tears over the financial hardships of a Black woman undergraduate on an episode of the reality show “Undercover Boss.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI offer these reflections to deprovincialize and radically contextualize the concepts and jurisprudence of free speech and academic freedom beyond the institutional mythologies of “Fiat Lux.”\u0026nbsp; Allow me to conclude with a set of overlapping questions that may offer some productive reframing of our ongoing discussions:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWho are the assumptive subjects of “free speech” and “academic freedom?”\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHow are these notions of liberty (particularly as they are inseparable from the jurisprudential regime that produces them as such) structured in relations of gender, race, sexual, and colonial dominance in the long historical and recurrent-present tense?\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EHow are free speech and academic freedom actually inhabited by people whose speech and thought are constituted in relations of dominance, such that the underlying humanist allegation at the core of both terms is (perhaps radically) demystified and disrupted?\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWhat forms of policing are martialed through the politics of free speech and academic freedom?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhile both \"free speech\" and \"academic freedom\" suggest discourses of liberty, i would argue that they cannot be separated from the densely historical, gendered racial-colonial logics that persistently claim to secure such “freedom” and “liberty” against lurking threats from what W.E.B. DuBois famously called “the darker peoples of the world.”"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3696469701003866473\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/11\/fiat-lux-free-speech-and-police-violence.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3696469701003866473"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/3696469701003866473"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/11\/fiat-lux-free-speech-and-police-violence.html","title":"Fiat Lux, Free Speech, and Police Violence"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-LPcQute1kEM\/XAFsxzoIpyI\/AAAAAAAADvw\/P36VAWIA9cogK4WJCGI427lsnOMT0DengCLcBGAs\/s72-c\/General-Barrows-Armistice-Day%2B1926.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-2531842084883157831"},"published":{"$t":"2018-11-12T08:49:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-11-12T08:49:29.888-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guest post"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"public goods"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Announcing the Network of Concerned Academics"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-fIeQuvRKf5s\/W9yZe1dtsYI\/AAAAAAAAB7w\/KavBfx1SaqsDyl9psGZ-isbjvef7nCw3wCLcBGAs\/s1600\/250px-Shepard_Hall.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"166\" data-original-width=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-fIeQuvRKf5s\/W9yZe1dtsYI\/AAAAAAAAB7w\/KavBfx1SaqsDyl9psGZ-isbjvef7nCw3wCLcBGAs\/s1600\/250px-Shepard_Hall.JPG\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBelow you will find the announcement of\u0026nbsp; the creation of a new network that has formed to defend the critical functions and independence of higher education in a moment of crisis.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EWe in the United States are facing a dangerous threat to our\ninstitutions of higher learning from a political climate dominated by\nanti-intellectualism and willful ignorance. For more than forty years, the\nacademic community has been the target of a sustained campaign of demonization\nand defunding that is designed to undercut its legitimacy as a source of\nexpertise and a haven for dissent. The structure of this anti-education\nmovement is deep, wide, and coordinated and the attack is being intensified\nunder the current administration. Almost every area of academic life is now at\nrisk: whether the threats come from the insistence of outside groups pressuring\nuniversities to host speakers who seek to affront marginalized members of the\nuniversity community and others; or the federal government’s attempts to ban\nMuslims, “Dreamers,” and undocumented students; or the underfunding of public\nhigher education and scientific research; or, most recently, the state’s\nattempt to reject years of scholarly work on the complexities of gender\nidentity. This is not only an American issue; the world’s universities are in\ndanger of losing the intellectual distinction and freedom that they have\nrepresented and defended. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThe Network of Concerned Academics will act as a hub to bring together all those seeking to address these threats to higher education.\u0026nbsp; The originality of the network is its outreach to the three groups—faculty,\nstudents, and administrators—who are not usually in direct conversation with\none another; indeed they are sometimes at odds.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/span\u003EOur goal is to unite these diverse constituencies in the face of\nunprecedented attacks on the entire enterprise of higher education, by\nproviding information and updates on unfolding events, and by developing\nconcrete strategies and blueprints, among them models of best practices for all\nthose who are confronted with new kinds of provocations and threats.\u003Cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003EThe website is now live at \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoHyperlink\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.networkofconcernedacademics.org\/\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.networkofconcernedacademics.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EThe effectiveness of this Network depends on its ability to bring\ntogether and activate people who are committed to preserving the university as a space\nin which diversity of perspectives, academic expertise, and critical thought\ncan flourish. \u003C\/span\u003EPlease post this letter and the NCA link on your websites\nand blogs, and please inform your constituencies about this new resource. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EWe appreciate your help in spreading the word about the launching\nof the NCA website, and welcome your contributions to its resources and\nconversations. \u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003EIf you have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the NCA by\nemail or at \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"MsoHyperlink\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.networkofconcernedacademics.org\/contact-us\"\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.networkofconcernedacademics.org\/contact-us\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E .\u003Co:p\u003E\u003C\/o:p\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2531842084883157831\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/11\/announcing-network-of-concerned.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2531842084883157831"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2531842084883157831"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/11\/announcing-network-of-concerned.html","title":"Announcing the Network of Concerned Academics"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Meranze"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05336793340375780406"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-fIeQuvRKf5s\/W9yZe1dtsYI\/AAAAAAAAB7w\/KavBfx1SaqsDyl9psGZ-isbjvef7nCw3wCLcBGAs\/s72-c\/250px-Shepard_Hall.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-2575385513842100798"},"published":{"$t":"2018-11-10T09:15:00.002-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-11-11T09:18:14.832-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guest post"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Berkeley"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"California Campus Republicans and Their Free Speech Masquerade"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"gmail_quote\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote type=\"cite\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"gmail_quote\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"gmail_quote\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"gmail_quote\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"adM\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-x1s7azpL-a4\/W-YbruY1d1I\/AAAAAAAAB9k\/ds58ALyxd64CzjywwtKXdjhTAlZ78_9gQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/190px-Pinocchio.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"262\" data-original-width=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-x1s7azpL-a4\/W-YbruY1d1I\/AAAAAAAAB9k\/ds58ALyxd64CzjywwtKXdjhTAlZ78_9gQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/190px-Pinocchio.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EBy Robert Cohen\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;(New York University)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"gmail_quote\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe release of the California College Republican’s Platform has attracted\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Epress attention because of its extreme right wing positions demonizing\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Ethe university as “\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Degenerate-and\/244871\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Edegenerate and murderous\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E” -- denouncing university support of transgender rights, undocumented students, Mexican and Muslim student organizations, and funding of birth control, and abortion.\u0026nbsp; But what the media coverage of the platform missed was the brazen dishonesty of these college Republicans’ discussion of free speech on campus. Indeed, the charge\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;of attempted censorship that the platform makes against\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;the UC Berkeley administration, with regard to the campus appearance of conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, is not merely misleading and false; it is by far the biggest lie I have ever encountered from student activists in the more than 30 years\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;I have spent studying, publishing books and articles, and teaching courses on American student politics. There was no attempted censorship of Shapiro at Cal, and the charge that there was represents an attempt by these right wing students to masquerade as free speech martyrs, which would be laughable were it not for the fact that such lying defames a Berkeley campus administration that has in reality ardently supported (and spent millions of dollars protecting) the free speech rights of conservative speakers at UC Berkeley.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EWhat the California College Republicans’ Platform said was that the Shapiro incident at UC Berkeley was an “example” of\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;the “attempt” by campus “administrators” to “suppress… free expression” of “conservative students…. The University of California at Berkeley attempted to prevent Berkeley College Republicans (BCR) from bringing conservative speaker Ben Shapiro by forcing BCR to pay for his $600,000 security bill necessitated by violent leftist demonstrators.” \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2018\/10\/22\/california-college-republicans-releases-2018-platform-prompting-community-pushback\/\"\u003EThis a complete fabrication. UC Berkeley never sought to force the BCR to pay an astronomical security fee. \u003C\/a\u003ENor did UC Berkeley in any way seek to prevent Shapiro’s appearance. Quite the opposite. The administration did everything in its power to make that appearance possible and to ensure its safety.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EHere are the facts. Back in July 2017 the BCR applied for a large room to accommodate the Shapiro event, which it planned to hold in mid-September.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;It turned out that none of the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;large rooms used for student events at Cal\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;were available on the date the BCR requested. So to ensure that this conservative speaking event could occur anyway, the Berkeley administration took the extraordinary step of making available Zellerbach Hall – whose large auditorium\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;had\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;usually been a\u0026nbsp;venue for concerts and major cultural events, and in the past had rarely if ever been made available for student speaking events.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The administration even agreed that it would pay the Zellerbach venue fee, something it had never done for any student political organization. In other words, the UC Berkeley administration was leaning over backwards to accommodate Shapiro’s talk, even subsidizing it, so much so that Berkeley’s left-leaning student newspaper,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2017\/09\/22\/right-wing-student-groups-invite-bigoted-trolls-invade-campus-guise-free-speech\/\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe Daily Californian\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Ecomplained of administration favoritism towards the BCR\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EYes, security costs for the Shapiro event in September 2017, most of which were paid for by the university, were expensive. But that was not merely – as the Republicans claimed – because of concerns about “violent leftist demonstrators,” but also\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;because in the wake of the Charlottesville tragedy (where a white supremacist murdered an anti-racist protester) there were fears that violent right wing extremists might come to the Berkeley campus to assault their leftist counterparts and students of color. Indeed, there had been street battles in Berkeley during the summer of 2017 between extremists on the right and left. So the university spent for for the necessary security to prevent such violence and to ensure that there was no repetition of the riot of February 1, 2017, when a paramilitary force of some 150 masked anarchists invaded the Berkeley campus,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;threatening public safety, doing $100,000 in property damage to the university, forcing the cancellation of a speech by the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;bigoted, foul mouthed, far right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. Thus the administration brought in an army of police, closed five campus buildings, and had police barricades set up on Sproul Plaza to establish a security perimeter that made violence or rioting impossible, enabling the Shapiro event to occur with no disruption.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThese security measures were\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;costly not only\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;in terms of money (despite a serious budget deficit Cal spent some $800,000 on the Shapiro event) but the disruption of the academic lives of many students, who could not access the services of the offices that were closed the afternoon of the Shapiro event.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;This led to\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;complaints from students, faculty, and staff that for the sake of an unpopular speaker brought by one small student organization (the BCR), regular functions of the university had been halted. Cal’s chancellor Carol Christ, heard such complaints.\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/2017\/08\/23\/chancellor-christ-free-speech-is-who-we-are\/\"\u003E But she had declared that\u0026nbsp;this, her first year in office would be “free speech year,” because at Berkeley – home of the Free Speech Movement – “free speech is who we are.”\u003C\/a\u003E And so to protect Berkeley’s vaunted free speech tradition she opened herself up to such criticism and had the university absorb the financial costs as well, all to prove that right wing speakers could come to the university to exercise their First Amendment rights.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAs to the BCR, its expenses for the Shapiro event were modest, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.campussafetymagazine.com\/university\/uc-berkeley-security-free-speech-events\/\"\u003Epaying only a\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;security fee of $9,162, which was dwarfed by the hundreds of thousands of dollars the university paid in actual security costs.\u003C\/a\u003E In fact, had the UC Berkeley administration not covered for the BCR the venue rental for Zellerbach Hall these conservative students would have had to pay another $13,274.02 to have hosted Shaprio in its\u0026nbsp;grand auditorium.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn a more rational era, campus conservatives would be grateful that Cal had subsidized their celebrity speaker and that they had a chancellor so committed to free speech that she went to such extraordinary lengths to ensure the Shapiro event’s success and\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;safety. But since this is the Trump era, where much of the American right wing\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;disregards truth whenever it finds doing so useful for its favorite sport of liberal-bashing, we end up with dishonest statements from the CCR accusing the \"liberal\" University of California administration of an imaginary free speech violation. Indeed, it was Trump himself who set the standard for such dishonesty when on February 2, 2017 his blame (and threaten) the victim tweet falsely implied that UC Berkeley had caused the anti-Yiannopoulos riot, sought to suppress conservative speech, and should therefore lose its federal funding.\u0026nbsp;Actually, UC Berkeley’s administration insisted on Yiannopoulos’ right to speak on campus\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;despite pressures to cancel the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;speech on account of his record of using campus\u0026nbsp;podiums to mock, bully,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;and invade the privacy of a transgender student and to foment bigotry and political violence. It was only when the riot perpetrated by an invasion of club-wielding (mostly non-student) anarchists\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;threatened the public safety that the speech was cancelled.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe riot is, of course, evidence that a militant, violent wing of the\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Bay Area Left is hostile to the free speech rights of the far right. It is also true that amidst the 2016 presidential election season made extraordinary tense because of Trump’s nativist, Islamophobic, white nationalist campaign, BCR members were sometimes treated like pariahs by leftist students, and that campus conservatives at times faced verbal and even physical intimidation from their political foes at Cal. But such problems – serious as they are – do not justify inaccurate and ideologically motivated attacks on the university\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;administration itself, which consistently opposed such intolerance.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe reality is that just in the last spring semester alone, the BCR had, with the UC administration’s support, hosted such conservative speakers as Charlie Kirk, Rick Santorum, Heather MacDonald, Candace Owens, Dave Ruben, Steve Simpson Antonia Oakfor, and Allie Stuckey. Even Yiannopoulos, who would, as with Shapiro, cost the university a fortune in security,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;in September 2017,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;returned to Cal for a campus appearance and gave a speech so brief and vacuous that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Police-barricades-block-access-to-UC-Berkeley-s-12224631.php\"\u003EUC spokesperson Dan Moguloff referred to it as “the most expensive photo-op in Cal’s history.”\u003C\/a\u003E So for even the crudest and most irresponsible of\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;right wing speakers (Yiannopoulos, who just this week expressed regret that the pipe bombs sent to critics of Trump\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;had not detonated ) free speech is alive and well at UC Berkeley. But so is the free speech masquerade in which the California \u0026nbsp;state Republican student leadership continues to pose as free speech martyrs, repressed by an administration that actually has consistently championed the free speech rights of conservatives.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2575385513842100798\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/11\/california-campus-republicans-and-their.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2575385513842100798"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/2575385513842100798"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/11\/california-campus-republicans-and-their.html","title":"California Campus Republicans and Their Free Speech Masquerade"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Meranze"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05336793340375780406"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-x1s7azpL-a4\/W-YbruY1d1I\/AAAAAAAAB9k\/ds58ALyxd64CzjywwtKXdjhTAlZ78_9gQCLcBGAs\/s72-c\/190px-Pinocchio.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-7878811120378944960"},"published":{"$t":"2018-10-08T12:01:00.002-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-10-08T12:01:53.788-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fake Knoweldge"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Research"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Kavanaugh v. Academic Knowledge"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-_ExXfZKbiNg\/W7UroJT5w9I\/AAAAAAAADrM\/8CfuvZYzuZAGcLdHFaEiWHYWVhVUhy1mACLcBGAs\/s1600\/IMG_7719.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-_ExXfZKbiNg\/W7UroJT5w9I\/AAAAAAAADrM\/8CfuvZYzuZAGcLdHFaEiWHYWVhVUhy1mACLcBGAs\/s320\/IMG_7719.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nMany people are worried about the damage the Kavanaugh appointment will do \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2018\/10\/6\/17915854\/brett-kavanaugh-senate-confirmed-supreme-court-legitimacy\"\u003Eto the Supreme Court\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/08\/opinion\/republicans-kavanaugh-conservatives-gloating.html?action=click\u0026amp;contentCollection=opinion\u0026amp;region=rank\u0026amp;module=package\u0026amp;version=highlights\u0026amp;contentPlacement=2\u0026amp;pgtype=sectionfront\"\u003Eto American politics.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/a\u003EI'm worried about the new damage it did to the public understanding of academic knowledge.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Brett Kavanaugh (left, in my one personal photo of the hearings, taken September 27th) and other Republicans attacked the equivalent of basic research-- an unrestricted FBI investigation-- as nothing more than a political hit, while generating fake academic knowledge to exonerate him.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis reduction of knowledge to partisan politics was supposedly a left postmodernist position, but it has in fact been a right culture-wars argument about the nonsense of academic research.\u0026nbsp; It has hurt academia of course, but has also torn the intellectual fabric of society.\u0026nbsp; It weakens public resistance to the political dismissal of validated knowledge about everything from the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2018\/10\/07\/republicans-who-believed-ford-doubted-her-memory-relied-junk-science-researchers-say\/?utm_term=.95c27ff7bf29\"\u003Eeffects of sexual trauma\u003C\/a\u003E to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/10\/02\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html\"\u003ETrump family tax evasion\u003C\/a\u003E to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/public.wmo.int\/en\/media\/press-release\/climate-change-report-%E2%80%9Cwake-%E2%80%9D-call-15%C2%B0c-global-warming\"\u003Eclimate change\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; Political dismissal supports a he said\/she said deadlock on any issue, making Americans even more fatalistic about resolving differences with force instead of knowledge.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAcademic knowledge rests on a few basics that we don't make explicit enough.\u0026nbsp; People may not ever expect politics to follow academic standards of evidence and argument, but they should be able to\u0026nbsp; tell them apart--and also to recognize the superiority of academic standards for knowledge to political ones. This is particularly important when politicians claim valid knowledge to justify political decisions. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAs I go through these standards, I will omit breaches that come from within academia itself.\u0026nbsp; I am aware of them.\u0026nbsp; For example, the dependence of research on private money presents opportunities for \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/16\/science\/billionaires-with-big-ideas-are-privatizing-american-science.html\"\u003Ebias\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/08\/health\/jose-baselga-cancer-memorial-sloan-kettering.html\"\u003Ecorruption\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-Water-Next-Time-Professor\/235136\"\u003Eneglect of the public interest\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp; But breaches are no reason not to compare public debate to the knowledge standards that academics struggle to adhere to--and that produce much better arguments and conclusions than what we've been hearing in U.S. public debates about pretty much everything.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe first of these standards is that academic research cannot be coerced, predetermined or discredited in advance by direct or indirect authority.\u0026nbsp; Academic freedom includes the freedom of an inquiry from being steered or suppresed by bullying, intimidation, slander, and blanket accusations of bias and political motives. In contrast, discrediting the allegations against Kavanaugh was a key Republican strategy, and doing it with white male anger was a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/06\/us\/politics\/kavanaugh-vote-confirmation-process.html\"\u003Ecalculated strategy.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; Here's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/national\/wp\/2018\/09\/27\/kavanaugh-hearing-transcript\/?utm_term=.84d344088994\"\u003EKavanaugh\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nWhen I did at least OK enough at the hearings that it looked like I might actually get confirmed, a new tactic was needed. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nSome\n of you were lying in wait and had it ready. This first allegation was \nheld in secret for weeks by a Democratic member of this committee, and \nby staff. It would be needed only if you couldn’t take me out on the \nmerits. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nWhen it was needed, this allegation \nwas unleashed and publicly deployed over Dr. Ford’s wishes. And then — \nand then as no doubt was expected — if not planned — came a long series \nof false last-minute smears designed to scare me and drive me out of the\n process before any hearing occurred. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nCrazy \nstuff. Gangs, illegitimate children, fights on boats in Rhode Island. \nAll nonsense, reported breathlessly and often uncritically by the media. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv data-elm-loc=\"1387\"\u003E\nThis\n has destroyed my family and my good name. A good name built up through \ndecades of very hard work and public service at the highest levels of \nthe American government.\u003C\/div\u003E\nThis whole two-week \neffort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit, fueled with\n apparent pent-up anger about President Trump and the 2016 election. \nFear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record. Revenge on \nbehalf of the Clintons. and millions of dollars in money from outside \nleft-wing opposition groups. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nThis is a \ncircus. The consequences will extend long past my nomination. The \nconsequences will be with us for decades. This grotesque and coordinated\n character assassination will dissuade competent and good people of all \npolitical persuasions, from serving our country. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nAnd as we all know, in the United States political system of the early 2000s, what goes around comes around. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nKavanaugh was marshalling the essential claim of the culture war on academia--the pretended pursuit of truth is a cover for the politically-motivated destruction of respectable people and their values--to discredit the entire second round of research.\u0026nbsp; Having refused Sen. Dick Durbin (D-WI)'s request that he call for a full investigation of the charges against him, Kavanaugh then helped convert the FBI's supplemental background check from a required to an offensive act. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe second feature of academic knowledge is that it has to \nbe impartial. This doesn't mean that the researcher's procedure is \nvalue-free.\u0026nbsp; It does mean that the researcher may not let self-interest control the research design, such that it leads to an answer that is more likely to benefit her, her \nteam, or her institution. Researchers control self-interest with various well-known modes of self-reflexivity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThanks to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/06\/us\/politics\/kavanaugh-vote-confirmation-process.html\"\u003Ereporting by Peter Baker, Nicolas Fandos and others\u003C\/a\u003E, we know that this principle was violated when the FBI's supplemental background check was structured through a series of political negotiations. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"css-4w7y5l\"\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nWhen Mr. Durbin [D-WI] \nasked Judge Kavanaugh to turn around and ask [White House counsel] Mr. McGahn to request an \nF.B.I. investigation into the charges against him, Mr. Graham erupted in\n a ferocious, finger-wagging lecture. Other Republican senators began \nchanneling their inner Trump and lashing out on Judge Kavanaugh’s behalf\n as well. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nRepublican senators met that\n night just off the Capitol Rotunda. Ms. Collins said she would find it \nhard to vote yes without a sworn statement from Judge Kavanaugh’s friend\n Mark Judge denying that he saw what Dr. Blasey described. Aides to \nSenator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Judiciary chairman, got a fresh\n statement from Mr. Judge within three hours to satisfy her. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nMr.\n Graham went to dinner that night at Cafe Berlin with Ms. Collins and \ntwo other undecided Republicans, Senators Jeff Flake of Arizona and Lisa\n Murkowski of Alaska. They discussed whether a limited F.B.I. \ninvestigation might assuage them. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nThe \nnext morning, Mr. Flake announced that he would vote for Judge Kavanaugh\n in committee, only to change course after being confronted on an \nelevator by women who told him they were victims of sexual assault. Ms. \nCollins and Ms. Murkowski were already talking by phone when Mr. Flake \ncalled them from a committee anteroom asking if they would back him in \ndemanding a one-week F.B.I. inquiry. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nLater that day, the three joined other Republican senators in Mr. \nMcConnell’s office to discuss what the F.B.I. investigation should look \nlike. The three undecided Republicans settled on four people they wanted\n to hear from: Ms. Ramirez, Mr. Judge and two others identified by Dr. \nBlasey as being elsewhere in the house at the time she was allegedly \nassaulted. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\nRepublicans organized the investigation to get the right answers for their remaining fence-sitters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe investigation violated academic standards in a third way.\u0026nbsp; Academic research must respond to new information or anomalies, which are facts that don't fit the guiding hypothesis. The research needs to be open to its own enlargement, complication, or refutation at each and every point.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nInstead, the Republicans set aside the major new anomaly in their theory of Kavanaugh's victimized goodness by declaring that Julie Swetnick's claims were \"too over the top\" to be considered.\u0026nbsp; They asked rhetorical questions whose answer was predetermined, like \"Why would [Swetnick] as a college student repeatedly go to high school parties where young women were gang raped?\" Of course academic researchers don't have the time or money to investigate everything, but they can't rule out possible holes in their theory with one-line objections or \u003Ci\u003Ead hominem\u003C\/i\u003E attacks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFourth, academic research has to show its data and results to the whole knowledge community. It can't give selected results to just a few people under predetermined conditions.\u0026nbsp; In the Kavanaugh case, the FBI sent one copy of their report to the Senate, which senators could view only in a secure room without the ability to copy or to take notes.\u0026nbsp; The report was not released to the full Senate to say nothing of the public.\u0026nbsp; This of course eliminates the possibility of an impartial evaluation of scope, quality, and results performed by people other than the interested parties.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAcademic research is conducted by regular humans who bring their preferences, identities, hopes and fears to work, which is why a fifth feature is so important. Once findings are released, they have to achieve a decent general agreement before they are passed on to be applied in the wider world.\u0026nbsp; When they are disputed, they are re-tested, reanalyzed, and revised until most if not all researchers in the relevant fields can at least provisionally accept them.\u0026nbsp; Think climate change modeling as an example, which has over the years gathered near unanimity about the main points even as details remain disputed and methods continue to change.\u0026nbsp; Good researchers don't pitch research results to policymakers before they have won general consent. Exactly the opposite happened in this inquiry.\u0026nbsp; Nearly half the Senate \nrejected the validity of the FBI's findings, with Sen. Bob Menendez \n(D-NJ) calling it a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/10\/4\/1801552\/-NJ-senator-pulls-no-punches-after-viewing-FBI-Kavanaugh-report-it-s-a-bullshit-investigation\"\u003E\"bullshit investigation.\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBecause none of these five academic standards were followed, the pivotal moment of Republican knowledge production--Susan Collins' brief for Kavanaugh--amounts to an apology for a political position that was decided in advance. \u0026nbsp; It takes the politically-framed investigation at face value, asserting non-confirmation of Blasey Ford's story even though the FBI was in no position to confirm it because they were not allowed to interview the many people who claimed to have information. Collins wrongly treats the cherry-picked interview list as dispositive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCollins also considers no evidence contrary to her \"yes\" position.\u0026nbsp; She does not separate the textual evidence of Kavanaugh's (also cherry-picked) opinions from Kavanaugh's claims about himself in interviews with her.\u0026nbsp; Collins then claims, while offering no evidence at all, that Ford was deluded about her attack: \"she is a survivor of sexual assault,\" Collins writes, but just not the one by Kavanaugh about which Ford claimed 100% certainty.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPerhaps worst of all, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/10\/5\/17943276\/susan-collins-speech-transcript-full-text-kavanaugh-vote\"\u003ECollins reintroduces \u003C\/a\u003Ea genteel version of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RTBxPPx62s4\"\u003ELindsey Graham's\u003C\/a\u003E and Kavanaugh's smear of the inquiry itself as nothing more than a Democratic hit. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv id=\"mX4Nt0\"\u003E\nSome of the allegations levied against Judge Kavanaugh \nillustrate why the presumption of innocence is so important. I am \nthinking in particular not [of] the allegations raised by professor Ford, \nbut of the allegations that when he was a teenager Judge Kavanaugh \ndrugged multiple girls and used their weakened state to facility gang \nrape. \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv id=\"iezDfh\"\u003E\nThis outlandish allegation was put forth without any \ncredible supporting evidence and simply parroted public statements of \nothers. That’s such an allegation can find its way into the Supreme \nCourt confirmation process is a stark reminder about why the presumption\n of innocence is so ingrained in our a American consciousness.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nCollins doesn't actually know that the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/26\/us\/politics\/julie-swetnick-avenatti-kavenaugh.html\"\u003Eallegation\u003C\/a\u003E is outlandish because her party blocked its investigation.\u0026nbsp; Rather than data she gives us a milder form of the male rage that had disparaged the investigation the week before.\u0026nbsp; Her tacit claim is that a full FBI investigation would be the tool of a Democrat political conspiracy that runs roughshod over the core American value of presumed innocence.\u0026nbsp; Then she concludes,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nmy fervent hope is that Brett Kavanaugh will work to lessen the \ndivisions in the Supreme Court so that we have far fewer 5 to 4 \ndecisions and so that public confidence in our judiciary and our highest\n court is restored.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\nOnce you take leave of argument and evidence, its hard to return to your senses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKavanaugh's confirmation showed the extent to which power \npolitics depends on invoking academic-style knowledge, even as it violates academic standards.\u0026nbsp; The default scenario for the next year is a continuation of culture war gridlock. Journalists and social media will continued to investigate Kavanaugh. The White House will denounce any new evidence as a politically-motivated lie.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Fewer and fewer people will \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/151597\/brett-kavanaugh-confirmed-supreme-court-point-no-return\"\u003Esee the Supreme Court as politically neutral\u003C\/a\u003E, even as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2018\/10\/myth-neutral-non-partisan-impartial-justice\"\u003Ebad evidence for its neutrality will be advanced\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; In the deepening cynicism about knowledge itself, universities will continued to be viewed as the Democrat's propaganda arm, their pale imitation of Fox News. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhy can't universities do a much better job of explaining standards of academic knowledge? \u0026nbsp; The country that isn't sure what real knowledge is, is doomed not to have it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7878811120378944960\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/kavanaugh-v-academic-knowledge.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/7878811120378944960"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/7878811120378944960"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/kavanaugh-v-academic-knowledge.html","title":"Kavanaugh v. Academic Knowledge"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-_ExXfZKbiNg\/W7UroJT5w9I\/AAAAAAAADrM\/8CfuvZYzuZAGcLdHFaEiWHYWVhVUhy1mACLcBGAs\/s72-c\/IMG_7719.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4011005913710034709"},"published":{"$t":"2017-10-27T10:28:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-10-27T10:28:07.035-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Feeding a Dangerous Fiction, Redux"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-8eqSlthEOIw\/WfIS4fKbGDI\/AAAAAAAADYM\/Z1o8GbuPVqc0ZsiFCcQYFqRS4ef7ceuGgCLcBGAs\/s1600\/Nevada%2BUNR%2BContructionAccessOnly.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1200\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-8eqSlthEOIw\/WfIS4fKbGDI\/AAAAAAAADYM\/Z1o8GbuPVqc0ZsiFCcQYFqRS4ef7ceuGgCLcBGAs\/s320\/Nevada%2BUNR%2BContructionAccessOnly.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe news is that UCOP has legitimated the conventional wisdom that there's a crisis of free speech on campus by \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/freespeechcenter.universityofcalifornia.edu\/advisory-board\/\"\u003Efunding a center to study it\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;But\u0026nbsp;I'm still thinking about the situation at other campuses, from Drexel's suspension of a tweeting professor that I discussed at length in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EInside Higher Ed\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;last week (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2017\/10\/19\/why-universities-should-not-crack-down-free-speech-essay\"\u003E\"Feeding a Dangerous Fiction\u003C\/a\u003E\"), to one of the many interesting exchanges I recently had in Reno.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EDuring questions after my lecture at the University of Nevada campus there, a man in his mid-40s told a story about his friend, a cement tycoon, who didn't get a thank you note from his East coast alma mater for building them a football stadium. \u0026nbsp;He then asked me when I thought universities were going to get back to \"merit and accomplishment\" and stop spending their time catering to their \"special snowflakes.\" I smiled at him. \u0026nbsp;He was a UNR alumnus but not an academic, and I love talking with non-university people about universities.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EI said that there is no tension between rewarding academic merit and \"protecting snowflakes,\" which I translated as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/12\/13\/washington-state-professors-free-speech-discourse-is-disempowering-to-marginalized-students\/\"\u003Ecreating non-punitive and non-threatening conditions\u003C\/a\u003E so that people's brains can operate correctly. \u0026nbsp;The latter is the means for achieving the former. \u0026nbsp;People learn only when they feel relatively safe and respected--not protected from their own wrongness, stupidity, and failure, but protected from stigmas, stereotyping, and mistreatment based on who they are and where they are coming from. \u0026nbsp;We can look at the vast learning literature for evidence of this truth. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EOr, I said, we can can refer to your story. Your donor friend felt hurt for not being thanked properly for his gift, and thus is having his \"performance\" in relation to his alma mater reduced. Similarly, the classroom performance of Black lesbian feminists is impaired by disrespect for them, implied or intended. \u0026nbsp;I'm a default egalitarian, I continued, which means supporting everyone's performance equally, while also knowing that means different things depending on whether one is a rich white donor feeling unappreciated or a young Black college student hearing nonsense talked about themselves. \u0026nbsp;I may have said \"even if we own a cement business we're all basically snowflakes\"-- I can't remember. In any case he smiled, waved, and departed. \u0026nbsp;I was left to ponder where he got the idea that even UNR, with its endless pouring of cement (pictured above), is mainly in the snowflakes business.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe most direct answer is that a bipartisan crew of campus free speech advocates continues to mis-frame the stakes of the debate. \u0026nbsp;Key members of the liberal center have joined the political right in committing this important error. \u0026nbsp;The error is to cast universities as safe harbors for enemies of free speech in particular and of freedom in general--with administrators as their squishy enablers.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EEvery week, the situation gets a little more propagandized. On the right, the motive for affirming this \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Only-1-Percent-of-Students\/241426?cid=wcontentlist_hp_latest\"\u003Efake story\u003C\/a\u003E is obvious. Republicans have to control all three branches of the federal government \u003Ci\u003Eand\u003C\/i\u003E most state legislatures and governorships with only \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/26\/opinion\/republicans-trump.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fthomas-b-edsall\u0026amp;action=click\u0026amp;contentCollection=opinion\u0026amp;region=stream\u0026amp;module=stream_unit\u0026amp;version=latest\u0026amp;contentPlacement=1\u0026amp;pgtype=collection\u0026amp;_r=0\"\u003E1\/3rd of the national electorate.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; They have a sole economic strategy, which is a combination of deregulation and tax cuts that over the decades has directly hurt their middle class base \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/Publications\/WP\/Issues\/2017\/09\/01\/Macroeconomic-and-Distributional-Effects-of-Personal-Income-Tax-Reforms-A-Heterogenous-Agent-45147\"\u003Ewithout actually helping the economy\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;To maintain minority rule on the basis of failed economic policy, they need to trot out enemies, and the university has been a stock culture-wars enemy for well over 50 years. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn addition, now that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/26\/opinion\/republicans-trump.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fthomas-b-edsall\u0026amp;action=click\u0026amp;contentCollection=opinion\u0026amp;region=stream\u0026amp;module=stream_unit\u0026amp;version=latest\u0026amp;contentPlacement=1\u0026amp;pgtype=collection\u0026amp;_r=0\"\u003E\"The Party of Lincoln Is the Party of Trump\u003C\/a\u003E,\" Republicans need to sustain Trump's leadership moves--retaliation and abuse--while neutralizing their downside, which is retaliation and abuse, or, in other words, tyrant modalities in the service of what political scientist Jeffrey A. Winters describes as the country's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Oligarchy-Jeffrey-Winters\/dp\/1107005280\/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8\u0026amp;me=\"\u003E\"civil oligarchy.\"\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026nbsp;They also need to keep people from noticing that their business agenda depends on secrecy and confusion, \u0026nbsp;which free speech standards would undermine were they applied to commerce. \u0026nbsp; For example, VP Mike Pence broke a tie on a Senate vote that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-arbitration-rule-senate-20171024-story.html\"\u003Eforces victims of bank fraud back into private arbitration\u003C\/a\u003E, where victims are not even allowed to talk about the problem for which they are seeking redress. \u0026nbsp;The Right protects commercial speech from disclosure while advocating it for public spaces, where the First Amendment does apply, and also for college campuses, whether or not it interferes with academic freedom. \u0026nbsp;In sponsoring speech that insults and upsets people, usually members of social minorities without power to retaliate, they can hope to trigger a backlash in which, Milo-style, they can play the victim. \u0026nbsp;When they do defend free speech for leftist professors, as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/452613\/free-speech-marxist-radicals-deserve-it-too\"\u003Ethe \u003Ci\u003ENational Review \u003C\/i\u003Edid in the George Ciccariello-Maher case\u003C\/a\u003E I also wrote about, they use it to describe college campuses as clubs for protected idiots.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe Right's demand for democratic speech is highly selective, not applying to Equifax or \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/03\/27\/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency\"\u003ERenaissance Technologies\u003C\/a\u003E but always applying to the student and professor part of the university sector. \u0026nbsp;These two groups stay in the political \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/09\/doghouse-pension-politics.html\"\u003Edoghouse\u003C\/a\u003E where they can be theatrically\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/regents-approve-expulsion-students-disrupting-free-speech-campus\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;punished.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; This venerable practice generally receives an unfortunate assist from the political center, which helps frame universities as anti-liberty. \u0026nbsp;As I noted in the \u003Ci\u003EIHE\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2017\/10\/19\/why-universities-should-not-crack-down-free-speech-essay\"\u003Epiece\u003C\/a\u003E, some \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/11\/as-trump-privatizes-education-dumping.html\"\u003Eprominent liberals\u003C\/a\u003E have aligned themselves with the Right's stereotypes of the freedom-hating campus Left.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EYale law professor and novelist Stephen L. Carter, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2017-03-06\/the-ideology-behind-intolerant-college-students\"\u003Ewriting in Bloomberg\u003C\/a\u003E,\n said that Middlebury-style “down shouters will go on behaving \ndeplorably and reminding the rest of us that the true harbinger of an \nauthoritarian future lives not in the White House but in the groves of \nacademe.” Fareed Zakaria asserted on his CNN program in May, “American \nuniversities these days seem committed to every kind of diversity, \nexcept intellectual diversity. Conservative voices and views, already a \nbesieged minority, are being silenced entirely\u0026nbsp;… There is also an \nanti-intellectualism on the left, an attitude of self-righteousness that\n says we are so pure, we’re so morally superior, we cannot bear to hear \nan idea with which we disagree.” Historian Jill Lepore used \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/10\/09\/flip-flopping-on-free-speech\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eher space in \u003Cem\u003EThe New Yorker\u003C\/em\u003E to argue\u003C\/a\u003E,\n via a cherry-picked series of scattered examples, that today’s \ncontroversies are driven by a “tragedy of betrayals” in which, from the \n1970s on, “the left’s commitment to free speech began to unravel.”\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EMy new friend in Reno would have every reason to think snowflakes were demanding that all campuses silence speech, since he could find that view in the New Yorker as on Bloomberg as readily as on Breitbart. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EMy pal could also get it from the leading First Amendment scholar and Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, who frames his \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-big-idea\/2017\/10\/25\/16524832\/campus-free-speech-first-amendment-protest\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Earguments\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E with the same stereotype that \"current college students are often ambivalent, or even hostile, to the idea of free speech on campus.\" \u0026nbsp;When he a\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/forum\/2017\/08\/23\/berkeley-law-dean-erwin-chemerinsky-explores-free-speech-vs-public-safety\/\" style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Eppeared on KQED's Forum program last August,\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Chemerinsky did not engage caller questions about whether universities must host advocates of positions that science and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Escholarship\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;has already refuted, which were questions about academic standards and academic freedom, but chose to hear them as doubting the First Amendment.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EActual Left positions on free speech are represented by \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/academeblog.org\/2017\/10\/19\/two-welcome-contributions-to-the-conversation-on-academic-freedom-and-free-speech\/\"\u003EJoan Scott\u003C\/a\u003E (interview with Bill Moyers\u0026nbsp;rejecting viewpoint-discrimination on campus), \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/academeblog.org\/2017\/09\/08\/on-outside-speakers-and-academic-freedom-part-iv\/\"\u003EHank Reichman\u003C\/a\u003E (bridging free speech and academic freedom via a post-Marcusian critique of tolerance), \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/free-speech-is-not-for-feeling-safe.html\"\u003EWendy Brown\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(rejecting free corporate speech as the model for campus speech), \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/the-free-speech-movement-and-unfinished.html\"\u003ELeigh Raiford\u003C\/a\u003E (tying free speech movements to civil rights)\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/BlackLivesMatter-Black-Liberation-Keeanga-Yamahtta-Taylor-ebook\/dp\/B01AYAU8MA\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1509041546\u0026amp;sr=8-1\u0026amp;keywords=keeanga\"\u003E, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(describing speech protests as widening civil rights tactics and goals), \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/21\/opinion\/sunday\/fighting-racism-protesting.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fsunday\u0026amp;action=click\u0026amp;contentCollection=sunday\u0026amp;region=stream\u0026amp;module=stream_unit\u0026amp;version=latest\u0026amp;contentPlacement=9\u0026amp;pgtype=sectionfront\"\u003ETiya Miles\u003C\/a\u003E (on speech needing to be embodied in \"corporeal protest\") and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/platform\/amp\/the-big-idea\/2017\/10\/25\/16526442\/first-amendment-college-campuses-milo-spencer-protests\"\u003ERobert Post\u003C\/a\u003E (universities' obligations to educational goals are logically prior to their First Amendment duties). \u0026nbsp; (Post's longer paper is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/abstract=3044434\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.) \u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003ENone\u003C\/i\u003E of these positions advocate \u003Ci\u003Ea priori\u003C\/i\u003E viewpoint discrimination, though that is the typical charge.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EPost's argument is that the First Amendment protects political speech but not all speech in any context. an obvious exception is private business: mall security can prevent anti-abortion rallies at the shopping center food court without losing a First Amendment lawsuit. \u0026nbsp;Post notes that free speech requirements also don't govern the exercise of professional competence. \"We do not apply to doctors sued for malpractice the core First Amendment\n doctrine that 'there is no such thing as false idea.' We hold doctors \naccountable for their expertise.\" \u0026nbsp;He goes on to apply this professionalist framework to universities:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAnother “bedrock principle” of the First Amendment is that “the \ngovernment may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because \nsociety finds the idea itself \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/1988\/88-155\"\u003Eoffensive or disagreeable\u003C\/a\u003E.”\n Yet no competent teacher would permit a class to descend into \nname-calling and insults. Even if the object of classroom education is \nto expose students to ideas that they might find disturbing or \nthreatening, it is nevertheless inconsistent with learning for students \nto experience this encounter in settings where they are personally \nabused or degraded.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ERegarding outside speakers, Post writes,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Euniversities are not Hyde Parks. Unless they are wasting their resources\n on frolics and detours, they can support student-invited speakers \u003Cem\u003Eonly \u003C\/em\u003Ebecause it serves university purposes to do so. And these purposes must involve the purpose of education.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThere's much to be said about this view pro and con, but the core idea is correct: \u003Ci\u003Ein principle\u003C\/i\u003E, academic authority rests on tested, disputable, and accountable expertise, not on the exercise of superior political power as covered (and prohibited) by the First Amendment.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThe Left has long done a superb job of describing all the ways that formal viewpoint neutrality is actually discriminatory. \u0026nbsp;It has mapped the many ways that this discrimination works generally against whomever has less power. \u0026nbsp;This has involved talking about inequalities of power and resources, which are topics that the Right does not enjoy, and that its partisans conceal in part with the trumped-up free speech controversy.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn addition to continuing to press on denied, veiled, and structural discriminations, I'd like to see the Left develop a model of free speech also grounded in both professional duty (the doctor example above) and educational purposes. \u0026nbsp;Both are based in things the Right has successfully weakened over decades--appreciation for expertise, and a working model of public goods. \u0026nbsp;Racial equity, gender justice, and similar forms of equality and reciprocity are good both because they help the public good of learning and because they are common goods, if not rights, ethically and philosophically valuable for their own sake. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn other words, free speech needs to be reconnected to the social justice issues that trigger the Right-- and too much of the center.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4011005913710034709\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/10\/feeding-dangerous-fiction-redux.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4011005913710034709"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4011005913710034709"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/10\/feeding-dangerous-fiction-redux.html","title":"Feeding a Dangerous Fiction, Redux"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chris Newfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01078395415386100872"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-8eqSlthEOIw\/WfIS4fKbGDI\/AAAAAAAADYM\/Z1o8GbuPVqc0ZsiFCcQYFqRS4ef7ceuGgCLcBGAs\/s72-c\/Nevada%2BUNR%2BContructionAccessOnly.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-4985284812947573418"},"published":{"$t":"2017-09-26T12:53:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2017-09-26T12:53:41.292-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Academic Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Privatization"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Protests"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UC Berkeley"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"BFA Editorial on Free Speech and the University"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-1TTVmw9dX6A\/WcqwAedxxvI\/AAAAAAAABKo\/E7YhRFKwelIs1--MY3Oc192omwpDvXN7gCLcBGAs\/s1600\/Barricade%2Bfor%2BShapiro.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"640\" data-original-width=\"480\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-1TTVmw9dX6A\/WcqwAedxxvI\/AAAAAAAABKo\/E7YhRFKwelIs1--MY3Oc192omwpDvXN7gCLcBGAs\/s320\/Barricade%2Bfor%2BShapiro.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nIn the aftermath of the failure of Milofest, the Berkeley Faculty Association has written an op-ed that raises important questions about the relationship between free speech, academic freedom, and political attacks on the university. \u0026nbsp;As the BFA notes:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.98px;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EFreedom of speech is one foundational principle of the public university. Academic freedom is another. Since 1964, when the UC Berkeley administration was successfully challenged by the Free Speech Movement to extend First Amendment protections to campus space, the university has had to balance the obligation to allow citizens’ speech against the commitment to academic freedom. As a public entity, UC Berkeley must respect the airing of diverse viewpoints; as a higher learning institution, UC Berkeley must protect its autonomy from political interference and harassment. Increasingly, the threat to the campus’ autonomy, on which academic freedom depends, derives not from government legislators—as in the era of the FSM, when former UC President Clark Kerr and former UC Berkeley chancellor Edward Strong were faced with adjudicating competing obligations to free speech and academic freedom. Rather, the threat increasingly derives from private interests hostile to the university’s mission of research and teaching.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYou can read the entire statement at the \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2017\/09\/26\/campus-must-defended-hostile-private-interests\/\"\u003EDAILY CAL\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4985284812947573418\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/09\/bfa-editorial-on-free-speech-and.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4985284812947573418"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1170716682680204889\/posts\/default\/4985284812947573418"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/utotherescue.blogspot.com\/2017\/09\/bfa-editorial-on-free-speech-and.html","title":"BFA Editorial on Free Speech and the University"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Michael Meranze"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05336793340375780406"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-1TTVmw9dX6A\/WcqwAedxxvI\/AAAAAAAABKo\/E7YhRFKwelIs1--MY3Oc192omwpDvXN7gCLcBGAs\/s72-c\/Barricade%2Bfor%2BShapiro.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}}]}});