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rfmcdpei

[BRIEF NOTE] My alma mater's nerve broke

Feb 08, 2006 18:35

My first alma mater, rather.

At the University of Prince Edward Island, a student newspaper became one of the first Canadian papers to reprint the incendiary editorial cartoons when it published them in its Wednesday edition ( Read more... )

freedom, upei, cartoons

Comments 4

angel80 February 9 2006, 02:42:35 UTC

Universities have not always been bastions of free speech. They originated in Europe as places of theological training and, in recent times, they are resuming that role with gusto (except that the theology has changed ( ... )

UPEI Cadre anonymous February 13 2006, 16:23:13 UTC

For an excellent discussion of the censorship of the UPEI Cadre in the context of the history of freedom of speech, see ( ... )

from axe-to-grind: anonymous February 14 2006, 16:34:48 UTC

I wonder if anyone else was as shocked as I was by the eagerness of UPEI students to insist, in these letters to the Cadre, that their student newspaper had no right to freedom of speech, freedom of the press?

http://cadre.upei.ca/node/3096#comment

And see this CBC story, "Human rights lawyer calls on media to print Muhammad cartoons":

http://www.cbc.ca/montreal/story...ons- 060208.html

Cartoon Censorship at UPEI as reported in US News and World Report anonymous March 9 2006, 00:39:28 UTC

Columnist John Leo, writing in the US News and World Report, appears unimpressed by the self-righteous, self-serving, and self-promoting remarks of the UPEI President / UPEI student President:

• After the student newspaper at the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada decided to publish the Danish cartoons, University President Wade MacLauchlan stepped in and announced that "it was decided not to permit the distribution" of the issue on campus. In fact, he thought the campus environment was better for halting publication of the cartoons. He wrote: "Why should we choose to repeat an act that had caused so much offense and trouble around the world?"

The president of the student union, which owns the campus paper, fell in line with a mealy mouthed statement: "I guess it is a fine line that we are looking at on a very complex issue ... . Freedom of the press is not absolute ... . There is also a responsibility to balance it with justice, to portray things properly."

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