Before Shutting Down Speakers, Do Your Research

By Rae Aaron March 21, 2017

If you dissent, I don’t mind. But leave your judgment here and see what you find: In New Voices last week, a great friend and classmate of mine, Sarah Asch, wrote a response to the protest of Charles Murray at Middlebury College, in which she blames the college administration for allowing Murray to speak. “This…

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Shutting Down Charles Murray Wasn’t a Free Speech Issue

By Sarah Asch March 15, 2017

We’ve made a lot of headlines recently at Middlebury College. Most news coverage of the student protest resisting controversial speaker Charles Murray has been discouraging and demeaning – “Violent Student Mob in Vermont Shuts Down Charles Murray” and “Understanding the Angry Mob at Middlebury that Gave Me a Concussion” and “The Middlebury Protest and Our…

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