Un. Be. Liev. Able.
Boing Boing: USC fines Free Culture club for protesting "Free Speech Zone":
"The University of Southern California has fined the USC Free Culture Club. The FC club's sin was failing to get permission to post fliers that protested the school's use of a 'Free Speech Zone' -- the only place on campus where free speech is permitted.
Apparently, the university doesn't see the irony of this.
I'm spending the year teaching at USC, as the Canada-US Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy, and this is just embarrassing. The whole point of the university is to foster free inquiry and free speech. It was ridiculous of the university to impose an Orwellian free speech zone on its students, and more ridiculous still to punish kids for protesting this."
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