censorship

In a meeting scheduled to occur as this issue goes to press, members of the faculty are due to debate and vote on a resolution affirming the College’s commitment to “civility” and condemning the “threatening speech or action[s]” that have supposedly occurred “in recent months.” Reasoning that “uncivil” or “threatening” words and actions have a tendency to silence debate and chill public speech, the administration has asked that faculty members reaffirm their commitment to the civility called for in the Social Contract.

Why did the Cooper Point Journal knowingly publish a fake quote by Martin Luther King? Why will it not publish a correction to its reference to a nonexistent anti-Semitic Jordanian law? Why does it allow personal attacks against individuals and not allow the attacked to respond? These questions must be posed in light of the CPJ’s mishandling of a “controversial” subject.