I just received the latest issue of the NC State Alumni Magazine, and it has an article on “Things We Love About NC State.”
Guess what one of them is?
FREE EXPRESSION TUNNEL:
Say what you want about it (and on its walls), it’s one of the best ways anywhere for students to get their voices heard.
Naturally it’s under fire. The Sensitivity Stasi at UNC, led by a spineless administration at NC State and a host of supposedly top minds and educators who cannot find a way to turn an instance of offensive speech into a teachable moment about the importance of free speech and the free society’s ability to use more speech rather than tyranny to overpower noxious speech, are doing their damnedest to try not only to shut down the Free Expression Tunnel, but also to use the incident to shut down free speech on all UNC campuses.
It’s an effort that’s doomed to fail. It has failed in the past, and it will fail them in the future. UNC will lose when new speech cases go to court. Granted, they can revisit the tactic of changing the code in the middle of the case in order to declare “victory,” but either way they are and will be wasting a lot of money — taxpayer money — in efforts to study and eventually choose the unconstitutional speech codes, and in efforts to defend them in court. They should be ashamed of themselves, but instead, they’re too suffuse with their own self-righteousness and hubris that they know better about “acceptable” freedom and its limits than the Founders.
