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“Despite the fact that our campuses have not encountered any substantiated cases of restrictions being placed on free speech, have had no speakers shouted down, no visitors assaulted, no ‘disinvited’ speakers, and no student complaints for at least the last 12 years, which is remarkable in the current political environment, there are still external forces that continue to perpetuate the notion that North Dakota colleges and universities are actively working against free speech and freedom of expression,
Lisa Johnson, the NDUS s vice chancellor for academic and student affairs, said in March before the bill passed. While that may be true of certain coastal institutions, this is simply not true of NDUS institutions.
Would it be controversial here in America’s conservative center? Oh yes, indeed it would.
But consider the comments made this week by Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway. In an interview Wednesday, April 14, on CBS News, Holloway said he feels confident Rutgers is on firm legal ground for requiring the mandate, and also that the reaction from the student body has been “wholly positive.”
And, he said, “for those who simply don’t want to, the fact is there are a lot of other options for their education. I hate to say it that harshly, but that is the fact. We will have the safest possible campus.”
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Would it be controversial here in America’s conservative center? Oh yes, indeed it would.
But consider the comments made this week by Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway. In an interview Wednesday on CBS News, Holloway said he feels confident Rutgers is on firm legal ground for requiring the mandate, and also that the reaction from the student body has been “wholly positive.”
And, he said, “for those who simply don’t want to, the fact is there are a lot of other options for their education. I hate to say it that harshly, but that is the fact. We will have the safest possible campus.”