Click Orlando ran a local interest story yesterday headlined, “UF sets student protest boundaries, threatens 3-year ban for rulebreakers.” The sub-headline explained, “Students allowed only to engage in speech, express viewpoints and hold signs.” In other words, no summer camping.
Florida’s largest public university is located right in my home town. Local sources advised me that campus police woke the protestors up every thirty minutes throughout the night last night. The protestors appeared a little bleary-eyed this morning.
The University of Florida also handed out flyers to protestors yesterday, with three categories of permitted activity and fourteen categories of prohibited conduct.
Plus, any UF staff who break the rules will be “separated from employment,” which is a neat euphemism for terminated with prejudice.
Florida’s approach is one that all universities should follow, preserving the right to lawful First Amendment speech but also stopping the campus from becoming an angry circus that no one would pay to see.
Plus, any UF staff who break the rules will be “separated from employment,” which is a neat euphemism for terminated with prejudice.
Florida’s approach is one that all universities should follow, preserving the right to lawful First Amendment speech but also stopping the campus from becoming an angry circus that no one would pay to see.
