Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The Intellectual Marketplace That Is The Contemporary University

"Only hours after students installed a “Free Speech Wall” at Carleton University to prove that campus free speech was alive and well, it was torn down by an activist who claimed the wall was an “act of violence.”

This is a fun quotation:  "In a Tuesday afternoon Twitter exchange with a CBC reporter, Mr. Smith dubbed free speech an 'illusory concept' and declared that 'not every opinion is valid, nor deserving of expression.'”

Mr. Smith, I might add, is a seventh-year student at the four-year college.