I don't see how the university can stop the student union from banning things if they want to, but then I can't see how the SU can stop students from forming a club either! This all seems rather weird... as you say they can just meet in a bar or cafe if they want to.
Wasn't it students calling for someone to be stoned recently, in a slightly nastier example of students trying to uphold idiotic laws? (In my day students GOT stoned, damn it. Never thoght I'd be holding that up as an example of moral rectitude...) On 1 July 2014 00:29, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> wrote: > This seems to be a student union thing. Maybe the university should > intervene and ban the student union from banning things. It probably will, > for the sake of it's own reputation. > > I can't help but desire that the university does not intervene, though. It > is perhaps more instructive to let the students experience, in a somewhat > safe environment, what happens when you give absolute power to ideologues, > and let them figure out how to recover freedom in their own terms. > > The Neitzsche club people are smart, they will hold meetings in the > Starbucks in front of the university and embarrass the apprentice censors. > > Cheers > Telmo. > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 7:48 AM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > >> Nothing like a good university stimulate intellectual debate - about >> who should be prohibited from debating and what should not be mentioned. >> >> Brent >> >> >> On 6/29/2014 10:41 PM, LizR wrote: >> >> >> http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/05/university-college-london-s-nietzsche-club-is-banned.html >> >> This is sheer insanity, to quote that bloke from "Dad's Army". I can >> only hope that the Neitzsche Club will not be killed off, but made stronger >> - and if it *is* full of rabid ideogogues misrepresenting Friedrich's >> ideas, let them do it in public so everyone can have a good laugh. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
