Word: expressionism
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The 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...
The Penn administration's response to these incidents has not been eagerness to protect free expression, but a reluctance to condemn on one hand, and a near-greedy inclination to censure on the other.
Penn President Sheldon Hackney's response to the "DP" theft was a tepid statement that bemoaned the conflict between diversity and open expression, "two important University values." A charge of racism is serious, and both campus officials and DP editors should respond vigilantly. But theft of a newspaper seems an...
Yet 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...
Thus both sides of the "culture wars" of the '80s and '90s took form in the pivotal year of '68. The key issues are different now -- abortion and gay rights, for example, as opposed to Vietnam and racism -- but the underlying themes still echo the clashes of '68: Diversity vs...