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Thursday, September 17, 2015

News Clips on the Regents Meeting Today

We have been noting that the Big Thing on the Regents calendar for the September sessions is the tolerance/intolerance resolution. We will - as usual - eventually archive the audio of the meetings. But for now, we'll just reproduce the links provided by the UCOP Daily News Clips service which gives a sense of the issue. As we said yesterday, our best guess is that the Regents, after the debate, will ask for a redraft. Clips below:

University's intolerance declaration raises concerns
(Associated Press) Julie Watson and Amy Taxin
The University of California's first draft of system-wide principles defining intolerance is drawing protests from free speech advocates who call it censorship and Jewish organizations that say it doesn't go far enough to protect against anti-Semitism. The UC Board of Regents is scheduled to debate the proposed "Statement of Principles Against Intolerance" at its meeting Thursday at UC Irvine.
UC is the first statewide university to consider adopting such a declaration. It calls for its 10 campuses to be "free from acts and expressions of intolerance" and would prohibit "depicting or articulating a view of ethnic or racial groups as less ambitious, less hardworking or talented, or more threatening than other groups," among other things. Critics say it would set a dangerous precedent. Many universities under pressure to do more to combat racism, sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination are already overstepping their bounds and discouraging comments that could be perceived as offensive, according to free speech advocates.
Related:
University Of California May Outlaw Intolerance, And Experts Say It'll Violate The First Amendment
(Huffington Post) Tyler Kingkade
UC regents chair defends proposed principles against intolerance
(The Los Angeles Times) Larry Gordon
Full text below.
Pro-Israel students dislike UC regents’ ‘intolerance’ statement
(The San Francisco Chronicle) Nanette Asimov
STUDENT PRESS: Submission: UC should not adopt anti-Semitism definition that endangers open debate
(Daily Bruin) Eitan Peled and Rahim Kurwa
STUDENT PRESS: Submission: Regents must condemn anti-Semitism to ensure safety of Jewish identity
(Daily Bruin) Arielle Mokhtarzadeh
Free To Learn? Think Again: Campus Censorship On The Rise
(Forbes) Tom Lindsay
University of California policy against intolerance meeting resistance
(Education Dive) Tara Garcia Mathewson

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