“New Conflict on Campus: Can We Live with the First Amendment?” is the title of a two-hour videoconference that will air 1–3 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 21) in the Anderson Room, Michigan Union.
The videoconference, sponsored locally by the Office for the Vice President for Student Affairs, tackles the issue of freedom of expression on today’s campuses. It features a panel of leading scholars moderated by journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, correspondent for “MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.”
Topics to be addressed include: an overview of First Amendment history and how courts have interpreted it, how the First and Fourteenth Amendments clash, the scope and limits of freedom of speech in the classroom and within the campus community as a whole, and whether it is the responsibility of the university to search for a sense of community.
