Campus speech in crisis : what the Yale experience can teach America / Introduction by Nathaniel A.G. Zelinsky, Commentary by José A. Cabranes and Kate Stith ; preface by George Will.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cabranes, José A., author.

Stith, Kate, author.

Contributor:

Zelinsky, Nathaniel A. G.,eauthor.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yale University.

Academic freedom--United States.

Academic freedom.

Political participation.

History.

United States.

Freedom of speech--United States.

Freedom of speech.

Yale University--Students--Political activity--History--20th century.

Students--Political activity.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

81 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : A William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale Book, Encounter Books, 2016.

Summary:

"Free speech is in crisis on America's campuses. Rather than refute an idea with which he disagrees, today's college student demands censorship. At the slightest hint of offense, the weak-willed administrator complies and disinvites a speaker while a close-minded protestor disrupts a lecture. This disturbing trend threatens the very purpose of education, to expose the mind to various points of view. The sad message today's students learn: shouting delivers results. This short booklet offers a timeless defense of free expression, first authored at Yale University in 1975 and all too relevant in the current climate. Like many higher education institutions then and now, Yale had faced protest and censorship. In response to that free speech crisis, a faculty-student committee chaired by renowned historian C. Vann Woodard composed the "Woodward Report." Its wonderful prose boldly defends the right for all to "think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable." The Woodard Report is a model for all those who seek to stand up for the civil exchange of ideas and against the forces of censorship. In addition the Woodard Report itself, readers will find an introduction contextualizing the report's history and exegesis of the text by Judge Jose A. Cabranes and Yale School Professor Kate Stith"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes reprint of the Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale, published in 1975.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-81).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Contains:

Yale University. Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale. Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale.

Other Format:

Online version: Cabranes, José A., author. Campus speech in crisis

ISBN:

9781594039195

1594039194

OCLC:

952389382

Publisher Number:

99969657460