Assembly approves GOP legislation requiring discipline for disruptive UW protests

[Wingnut]

Good news out of Madtown!  A step in the right direction.


The state Assembly approved a Republican-backed bill late Wednesday night that aims to prevent disruptive protests on college campuses by requiring the University of Wisconsin System to suspend and expel students who repeatedly interrupt speakers.

The bill’s supporters described it as a step to protect free speech by ensuring potentially controversial speakers, often conservatives, can present their ideas on UW campuses without being shouted down.

Democrats and several UW faculty members derided the proposal as a politicized solution in search of a problem, saying no one has faced violent protests or been denied the right to speak at Wisconsin’s public universities.

The bill passed on a 61-36 vote after more than three hours of debate, with Rep. Bob Gannon, R-West Bend, the only Republican to vote against the proposal. All Democrats voted against it.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/assembly-approves-gop-legislation-requiring-discipline-for-disruptive-uw-protests/article_ec6b3fad-c00b-5e44-917f-e0eee2684c01.html

[txradioguy]

The end result should be a lot of those UW profs should be out of a job right now.

[Wingnut]

The end result should be a lot of those UW profs should be out of a job right now.

Most likely they were the UW hippies that protested and blew up campus buildings in the late 60's

[txradioguy]

Most likely they were the UW hippies that protested and blew up campus buildings in the late 60's

And they finally graduated and are now tenured professors.

[Wingnut]

And they finally graduated and are now tenured professors.

Ain't it grand.

[Free Vulcan]

Stifling others' speech is not 1st amendment speech. Justifying stifling of others' speech because you moralistically deem it 'hate speech' is a violation of separation of church and state. No one made you Pope to decide what speech is good and what is evil. So I'm fine with having these people expelled and fired if they want to continue illegally squashing ideas that don't fit with their doctrine.