"Freedom of Speech" at Northern Kentucky University

A language and literature professor has what Language Log calls a "novel interpretation of 'freedom of speech.'" She encouraged her students to destroy another group's expression of free speech--that group being a right-to-life organization that had built a display representing a cemetery for aborted fetuses. The crosses went in the trash.

Sally Jacobsen, a professor of literature and language at Northern Kentucky University, said nine students in one of her graduate-level classes dismantled the display Wednesday.

"I did, outside of class during the break, invite students to express their freedom of speech rights to destroy the display if they wished to," Jacobsen said.

The AP story is here.

Posted: Sat - April 15, 2006 at 08:24 AM |

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"Freedom of Speech" at Northern Kentucky University

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