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Aster, a junior at the University of Pennsylvania, said that free speech had been the dominant issue of the year at her campus, especially for The Daily Pennsylvanian, where she is the assistant editorial chair...
Stephen Glass, executive editor of the campus newspaper the Daily Pennsylvanian, maintains that in matters of free speech Hackney "very much stands up for complaints from the left but not from the right." In April almost all 14,000 copies of the Daily Pennsylvanian were taken and destroyed by black students protesting "blatant . . . perpetuation of institutional racism" by the newspaper -- specifically the views of a right-wing columnist -- and the university at large. The paper declared it was "betrayed" by Hackney's reaction, a bland statement that "two important university values, diversity and open expression, seem to be in conflict...
...important University values, diversity and open expression, seem to be in conflict. That was University of Pennsylvania President Sheldon Hackney's lament this April when a group of Penn students, citing an offensive editorial in The Daily Pennsylvanian, stole and trashed 14,000 copies of the college newspaper...
...events at the University of Pennsylvania in the past few months have been little short of mind-boggling. In April, a group of students, upset at what they called racism in The Daily Pennsylvanian, stole 14,000 copies of the campus paper one morning. It took a full month after the crime for the school's "Committee on Open Expression" to conclude that the act violated Penn's guidelines for free expression...
...maybe not at Penn, where standards for free expression are set by a campus speech code, according to an interview with Hackney in the Daily Pennsylvanian. The code consists of "tests" that determine whether a statement is condemnable. "Is it constitutional?" the DP asked Hackney. "This is not about the First Amendment," Hackney replied. "This is about community and what kind of community we want...