Opinion: Trump probably wasn’t thinking about these campus free-speech problems
President Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 2. By Sanford J. Ungar March 18 at 12:33 PM Sanford J. Ungar, president emeritus of Goucher College, is director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University.
Then there was the adjunct professor of American history at Fresno State University, Lars Maischak, who lost his job in 2017 after sending a hostile tweet about Trump. The same year, during a commencement ceremony at Sonoma State University in northern California, student Dee Dee Simpson read an original poem passionately criticizing police violence against African Americans — stirring complaints from parents, who received an apology from the university’s president, Judy Sakaki.
That contradicts the implicit premise of the president’s vow to withhold federal grants, delivered during a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference: that only conservative speech is threatened on college campuses. It was at the CPAC gathering that Trump literally hugged the American flag.
If there is any development in this arena that should be attracting more widespread concern, it is the extent to which free expression and factual inquiry are now especially under attack in U.S. high schools — public, private and parochial alike — as documented in our Free Speech Tracker. Valedictorian Christian Bales had cleared the text of his speech in advance with administrators at his high school in Covington, Ky., but when he arrived at the graduation ceremony last May, he learned his address had been canceled. He had planned on praising youth advocacy, including that of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., who had launched a movement to end gun violence after a mass shooting at their school.
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