UCLA students gather to protest the universities of well liked professor over his political view – PB/TK
Students demand UCLA allow conservative communications professor to keep teaching – By John Sexton / May 29 2017
A couple dozen students marched to the office of UCLA interim dean Laura Gómez to demand the school retain popular communications professor Keith Fink who is an outspoken conservative. From the Los Angeles Daily News:
“About 25 students and supporters, carrying signs saying “Free speech is under attack” and “Keep your agenda out of our classroom,” gathered Friday on campus before bringing a list of demands to Laura Gómez, interim dean of UCLA College Division of Social Sciences which oversees the Communication Studies department, who wasn’t in her office when they delivered their list. Among the demands: that Fink be allowed to keep teaching and that the school implement curriculums “that increase intellectual tolerance” on campus.
Mick Mathis, a senior at UCLA, said pressure on Fink is about curtailing free speech.
“This is supposed to be a marketplace of ideas, and it’s not a marketplace of ideas if they’re trying to get rid of somebody with a contradictory viewpoint,” Mathis said.”
The backstory here is that Professor Fink teaches courses on free speech and entertainment law which have become popular with students. Earlier this year, Fink complained on Fox News (see the video below) after a new department chair cut the number of students he was allowed to have enrolled in his classes citing a need to maintain “reasonable class sizes.”
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