DON'T JOIN THE HONOR COMMITTEE: Guest Contributor Benjamin Gelman ’23 discusses why students should not join the Honor Committee or the Committee on Discipline. Gelman writes, “Students should not be fooled: joining either Committee means participating in the investigation and punishment of one’s peers without due process – and we should simply stop doing so.” Gelman argues that the “only meaningful way to stop the Honor Committee from legitimizing the administration’s decisions is to deny it student members.”
READ THE COLUMN →THE MISSING PIECE TO THE FREE SPEECH PUZZLE: Columnist Abigail Rabieh writes that the missing piece in the free speech debate is “the lack of neutrality demonstrated by the university” and argues that the University should adopt the Kalven Report. This is a report “created by a University of Chicago faculty committee in 1967, which takes the position that the university should remain neutral on all controversial issues.” Rabieh discusses the use of free speech in seeking truth and “encourag[ing] incoming students to engage in the most demanding and complex conversations” when discussing free speech on campus.
