I'd be happy to. Who would you recommend?
-Zeb
On Mar 30, 2010, at 11:19 AM, Arthur Polhill wrote:
Did you copy UF on this?
A. Leon Polhill, Gator
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From: John Vega <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tue, March 30, 2010 11:03:17 AM
Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: UF students run afoul
of UF's Haiti travel ban [Crabbe]
On Mar 30, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Shane Ford wrote:
Glover said the students were told they wouldn't be allowed to use
additional material filmed in Haiti but decided to make a
unilateral decision to go in order to get "juicy footage." They
could have instead traveled to the Dominican Republic to complete
their work, he said, or changed the emphasis of the documentary,.
He dismissed the idea of allowing an exemption, saying the
university would be opening itself up to liability if a student
traveling to the country was injured or killed.
"You can be sure that we would have been held at least partially
responsible for that," he said.
The students are now considering whether to risk failing by
submitting the thesis with the material and exploring whether they
have any legal recourse to challenge the policy. Documentary
Institute Director Churchill Roberts said applying the policy to a
thesis raises questions about free speech and academic freedom.
"I've never had anyone tell me what can or can't be put in a
thesis," he said.
The issue is not a simple free speech question, said Clay Calvert,
director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at UF.
The university could simply be uniformly enforcing a policy based
on protecting student safety that has the unintended consequences
of affecting speech, he said.
I've read the actual travel "ban." To be frank, it is more of a
disclaimer.
A link is here: http://www.admin.ufl.edu/DDD/default.asp?
doc=15.8.2467.2
2.
Travel to Haiti
2/5/2010
Joe Glover, Provost & Patricia Telles-Irvin, Vice President for
Student Affairs
Based on an assessment of risk and on advice from the federal and
state governments, we are adopting the following policy until
further notice:
There are to be no UF-sanctioned, -sponsored, or -approved trips
for students to Haiti.
Faculty and staff who wish to travel to Haiti to render assistance,
to pursue research, or to otherwise act in their professional
capacities as employees or representatives of UF must receive prior
approval for the trip from Lynn Frazier, David Sammons, or the
Provost.
Faculty and staff who do not receive such approval but who
nevertheless choose to travel to Haiti on unpaid or annual leave
should make clear that they are acting without the approval or
sanction of the university and do not represent the university.
I have a hard time reading this and concluding that information
gained during a non-sanctioned, non-sponsored and unapproved trip
could not be included in one's thesis. I read it more along this
lines of "cancel the marching band's trip to Haiti."
I went to a lot of libraries to gather the information for my
senior seminar, and university "approval" was never an issue. There
is a big difference between these two sentences:
There are to be no UF-sanctioned, -sponsored, or -approved trips
for students to Haiti.
and
There are to be no trips for UF students to Haiti.
UF should respect the difference.
-Zeb
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