USG SENATE UPHOLDS APPEAL: A week after voting closed on a student body referendum calling for the University to boycott the use of Caterpillar equipment, the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) has upheld an appeal made against the handling of Referendum No. 3 voting. While the referendum passed according to the rules of the USG Constitution, the USG has decided to instead take several other measures to abide by the appeal. Among these measures is a Paper on Referendum 3 meant to demonstrate the will of the student body that will be sent to University officials. READ THE STORY →
PANELIST DISCUSSION ON FREE SPEECH AND EQUALITY: In celebration of 50 years of inclusion at the University, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York University professor Ulrich Baer, and Amherst University professor Stefan Bradley sat on a panel on April 19 to discuss institutionalized racism in college and free speech in the classroom. Panelists discussed how diversity in colleges can lead to “the diversification of knowledge itself,” and how free speech is not meant to infringe on human rights or equitable participation of diverse students in classroom discussions. After the event, Ulrich Baer commented in an email that he felt the panel worked to “‘explain how the overall goal in considering the role of robust and even uncomfortable exchange of ideas can be balanced with the goal of truly allowing all students to contribute to the joint enterprise of learning.’”
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