U. of Tennessee Chattanooga Tells Turning Point USA It Needs ‘Reservation’ for Free Speech
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga student and Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter president Kyler Kayanek told Breitbart News that while attempting to recruit TPUSA members on campus, school officials approached his group and told them that they were not allowed to exercise their First Amendment rights in the public square of the university. Kayanek spoke to SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow in a Wednesday interview for the show’s TPUSA campus report.“We hadn’t even been set up five minutes and a police officer came with an administrator, said Kayanek. “We had a sign out that had a few guns on it as we are supporters of the Second Amendment, and the first thing they asked us was if we were armed.”
The student added that the two had left shortly after that, but that “not even 45 minutes later, another administrator came, and he just said we were gonna have to leave.”
“He said it was against university policy for us to be there, because we didn’t make a reservation,” added Kayanek.
The student continued:
As the president of Turning Point USA, I’ve read over the student handbook, and it specifically says we have the right to peacefully assemble, but apparantly if that goes against the university policy of reserving a space on a public campus, then it’s in violation.“This is a public university, you’re not on private property, you’re not trespassing, you’re a student of the university,” noted Marlow. “This is an infringement on free speech. This is also an infringement on free assembly from my vantage point.”
“Apparently everyone has the right to freely assemble unless it’s against university policy,” said Kayanek. “They let us move to a different area of campus — but you know, we couldn’t be there right at the center of campus.”
Universities are known to have “free speech zones,” which refers to when university administrators designate a specific area on a college campus for one to exercise their First Amendment rights, which in turn, seems to imply the false narrative that public property in the United States of America is not in itself a “free speech zone.”
“We’re gonna try to fight this, we’re gonna try to assemble more, and we’re gonna try to gather as many people as we can on campus to help fight this very biased and one-sided opinion,” Kayanek affirmed.
“I’m hoping to really grow the club and try to be very proactive on campus,” the student added of his future plans with TPUSA on campus. “We’re hoping to have an NRA event on campus. We’re hoping to bring speakers. We’re hoping to really open up dialogue.”
Northwestern U. Student Government Refuses to Adopt Free Speech Bill
The student government at Northwestern University rejected a bill that would have reaffirmed campus speech protections. The bill was written in response to an event on campus featuring former Attorney General Jeff Sessions that was derailed by student protesters.According to a report by the College Fix, the student government at Northwestern University is pushing back against those want want to defend free speech on campus.
Northwestern student Zach Kessel brought the resolution before the student government in the hopes it would serve as a reminder of the important role that free and open inquiry plays in higher education. However, he was surprised when student senators began criticizing the resolutions. Ultimately, the senators decided to “table” the resolution, meaning that they would not put it up for a vote.
Kessel said he doesn’t know which senators voted to table the resolution. “[P]retty much everyone in the room had only negative things to say” – even those who voted against tabling – “so they all blended together in my mind,” he said. But he knows one of the senators who abstained, Max Emery, who has said that neither he nor other senators wanted to talk about the vote.Breitbart News reported in November that editors of Northwestern University newspaper had apologized over their decision to cover the demonstrations against Sessions. The newspaper was mocked by the Northwestern community over its decision to apologize for reporting on the protests.
Breitbart News reported in December that Northwestern University had fined the students that disrupted the Sessions event. Several students were fined $125 for their role in the protest. Some protesters even pushed and kicked police officers as they were removed from the venue.
Northeastern U. Scientists Plan to Use Surveillance Tech to Catch ‘Implicit Bias’
Not a one of these schools has any respect for the rights and freedoms of their students. These aren't the only such cases, either. Please, post links to others you've found, so people can see which schools to avoid. I know none of these will see any money from me. I'd never send one of my kids to such a place.Researchers at Northeastern University are currently working to develop an artificially intelligent listening device that would catch and report “implicit bias” in the workplace.According to a blog post on the Northeastern University website, researchers at the university in Boston are working to build a smart listening device that would record “implicit bias” in the workplace.
The concept is chillingly Orwellian. Northeastern University, in the post, says that the device would be used to report workers don’t value the perspective of their female colleagues.
“But what if a smart device, similar to the Amazon Alexa, could tell when your boss inadvertently left a female colleague out of an important decision, or made her feel that her perspective wasn’t valued?” the post reads.
Northeastern Professor Christopher Riedl, who is working on the project, says that the device to ensure “inclusion” in the workplace.
“The vision that we have [for this project] is that you would have a device, maybe something like Amazon Alexa, that sits on the table and observes the human team members while they are working on a problem, and supports them in various ways,” Riedl said. “One of the ways in which we think we can support that team is by ensuring equal inclusion of all team members.”“You could imagine [a scenario] where maybe a manager at the end of a group deliberation gets a report that says person A was really dominating the conversation,” another professor, Brooke Foucault Welles, said.Breitbart News has reported extensively on the popularity of “implicit bias” testing in academia. Breitbart News reported in January that Harvard University had embraced the debunked “implicit bias” test, an online quiz hosted on the Harvard website that purports to determine the level of a participant’s racism.Stay tuned to Breitbart News for more updates on this story.
We need to start demanding changes, and not allow these schools to receive tax dollars, when they violate the rights of their students.