Purdue University Students Want to Change Free Speech Code, Calls on Pres. to Apologize for Supporting Free Speech

ashley.rae | November 17, 2015
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Students at Purdue University are urging the administration to revise the school’s free speech policy to protect students from hurt feelings. The students are also calling for Purdue University President Mitch Daniels to apologize for emphasizing the school’s commitment to free speech.

In a list of demands presented by students at Purdue on Nov. 11, the students stated, “We demand that the free speech policy be revised to address hate speech in person and through social media. We demand the university to follow harassment policies consistently to protect students from hostility.”

Purdue’s free speech policy “guarantees all members of the University community the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge, and learn.”

The students also demanded that university President Mitch Daniels apologize for “his erasure of the experiences of students of color” when he contrasted his school’s commitment to free speech with the recent behavior exhibited at Yale University and the University of Missouri.

Other student demands include reinstating the position of Chief Diversity Officer and forming a diversity bureaucracy, creating a “required comprehensive racial awareness curriculum for all students, staff, faculty, administration, and police,” and an increase in the percentage of “underrepresented minority” students and faculty.

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