University Free Speech Update
Campus newspaper column hurts prof’s reputation. Bess Davis’ ”Bess Sex” column in th University of Montana’s Montana Kaimin doesn’t appear to be about Law Prof Kristen Juras. She just doesn’t like the content and is afraid its relative proximity to her is damaging. It’s an interesting argument.
Does this mean, for example, that material that appears in the Boston Herald may harm the reputation of people who don’t like it, because they live in Boston? How about stuff that appears in The Nation. A danger of disrepute on others associated with … the nation? Clearly the Washington Post is OK, because I’m pretty sure Washington DC denizens are libel-proof.
More to the point, does this mean anyone else using a university forum … classroom, podium, newspaper, etc. … who expresses objectionable views should be hounded out or shut down? I guess we already know the answer to that. It depends.
Topics: academia, free speech
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:29 am Comments (2) on Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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March 11th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Broken link. I think you want something at montanakaimin.com.
March 11th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Thanks, pst314. Fixed.