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Academic disagreements should be decided through debate

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Academic disagreements should be decided through debate

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Oct 7, Hamas Attack on Israel

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Claudine Gray, Harvard President refused to answer the question whether the universe of rational discourse is broad enough to accommodate demands for genocide. The president was unable to respond with a concise answer and shunned away from the evident answer of no due to critisisms.

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Many universities ignore the importance of events by not responding. Causing only frustration and anger among students and staff causing an unsafe environment of harassment and bullying for students.

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McCarthyism

Definition: a political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient evidence

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During the second Red Scare the faculty of a university were forced to swear allegiance to the United States to make sure they were not communists. Those who refused, lost their position . Relating to the idea of McCarthyism and defying university staff independent freedom of ideas.

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It is more honorable to declare your own position instead of suppressing your voice and agreeing with the majority.

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AT UC Berkeley, there was controversy over a student organization that invited speakers to be “anti Zionists”, violating the norms of curiosity and engagement.

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Presidents of Harvard and UPenn were asked to interpret their campus speech rules and couldn’t answer: Speech regulations in campus are standardless, because of the fear of criticism.

Universities don’t have clear rules of whats forbidden, and whats considered harassment / bullying.

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Hecklers veto; the suppression of speech by the government or person of power, violates the first amendment.

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In College environments, they tend to “decide whats hateful based on the response of the listener”, meaning they have no concise / clear rules for how students should express themselves

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The classroom is first and foremost, a place to train young minds toward a yearning for knowledge and a taste for argument, even if what they wind up discovering challenges their convictions.

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Impediments to free speech are impediments to free thought and can only interferes with that search. Thats why academic freedom is so precious

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History: academic freedom traces back to 15th century, but modern conception come largely from German university of 19th century.

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Students shun away from stating opinions and keep controversial ideas to themselves. The educational process of expanding curiosity and conversation outside the classroom failed.

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William Shockley (Nobel prize winner)debated the issue of I.Q and inheritance w Luii Cavalli-Sforza. Sforzas great arguments made Shockleys claims weak.

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Students from Yale University interfered with the debate by booing and protesting. The school suspended the students, Carter agrees that schools should punish those who disrupt academic processes in any form regardless of their motive.