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Walking through my old campus quad and seeing the empty speaker's corner
I was back at my alma mater in Madison last weekend, just walking around. I went past the spot near the student union where they used to set up for guest speakers all the time. I mean, it was totally empty, just some kids throwing a frisbee. It got me thinking about how, maybe ten years ago, there was always some kind of event there, even if it was a bit messy. You'd see flyers for talks and sometimes small protests. Now it just feels quiet. I heard from a current student that the school's policy for outside speakers got way stricter after some big fight over a political commentator in 2019. They said the approval process takes months now. It makes me wonder if trying to avoid a problem sometimes just makes a different one, you know? Has your old school changed its rules on who can speak?
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brooke7110d ago
I was there last month and they actually had a speaker from the ACLU. The process is stricter but it's not totally dead. The frisbee kids were there too though lol.
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