CampusFreeSpeach

Created: 2024-01-05

>One explanation might be that, as Geoff Shullenberger has argued
   in The Chronicle, "the campus free-speech wars have only ever been 
   secondarily about speech. Instead, they were primarily about the
   paternalistic role universities have arrogated for themselves as
   protectors of vulnerable groups." When two groups -- Jews and
   Palestinians, in this case -- have competing claims to vulnerability,
   college leaders choke. The sprawling apparatus of therapeutic care they 
   have erected over the last decade requires them to approve their
   students' concerns, including political concerns, and to affirm their
   identities, especially when those identities have claims to
   marginalization. But when asked to take a stand between groups, the
   administrators faced a crisis.

### Neutrality

>What will they do now? One possibility: Commit to the institutional
   neutrality enshrined in the University of Chicago's 1967 Kalven Report,
   which calls for "a heavy presumption against the university taking
   collective action or expressing opinions on the political or social
   issues of the day." No more statements from college presidents scolding
   the Supreme Court; no more declarations of solidarity with Ukraine

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