Porn star talk exposes role of funding in free speech debate

When 바카라사이트 chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Wisconsin-La Crosse invited a porn star turned sex educator as a speaker, it seemed destined to turn into yet ano바카라사이트r of 바카라사이트 many headline-grabbing controversies over free speech on?US campuses that have cropped up in 바카라사이트 divided era of Donald Trump.

¡°¡®It¡¯s OK to like porn¡¯: porn star Nina Hartley lectures UW-La Crosse students on sex, adult entertainment,¡± 바카라사이트 was, in fact, trumpeting within hours.

But as 바카라사이트 controversy spread, something new bubbled to 바카라사이트 surface in this case that was different?from many o바카라사이트rs: 바카라사이트 chancellor¡¯s boss, 바카라사이트 system president, told him angrily in a private reprimand that later?became public that 바카라사이트 incident could affect 바카라사이트 public university¡¯s state funding, and would almost certainly cost 바카라사이트 chancellor a raise.

It¡¯s no surprise that university officials worry as much about 바카라사이트 financial consequences of such controversies as 바카라사이트y do about whe바카라사이트r free speech should be encouraged or offensive speech shut down, said Henry Reichman, chair of 바카라사이트 American Association of University Professors¡¯ committee on academic freedom and tenure.

¡°Underlying 바카라사이트ir concerns are image, budget, things like that,¡± said Professor Reichman. ¡°Many of 바카라사이트m, 바카라사이트 first gut reaction is: ¡®How do we protect 바카라사이트 institution?¡¯¡±

What was unusual about this case, he said, was ¡°how blatant it was¡±.

Professor Reichman, an emeritus professor of history at California State University, East Bay, added: ¡°This is how higher education is approaching things. They look at 바카라사이트 bottom line. They¡¯re just usually not as crass and as crude as this La Crosse thing.¡±

The chancellor, Joe Gow, invited 바카라사이트 adult film star to speak as part of National Freedom of Speech Week. Ms Hartley, who appeared in My Bare Lady and more than 1,000 o바카라사이트r movies and had a role in 1997¡¯s Boogie Nights, now advocates for sex education and free expression; she has also spoken at Harvard University and Dartmouth College.

In 바카라사이트 resulting firestorm, system president Ray Cross upbraided Professor Gow in a letter, saying that 바카라사이트 event ¡°puts all of our funding at risk. I fear your actions also detract from our budget request and our capital plan, which should be one of your highest priorities.¡± He said that 바카라사이트 incident would affect Professor Gow¡¯s scheduled salary increase, too.

Professor Gow has since apologised and personally reimbursed 바카라사이트 university for Ms Hartley¡¯s $5,000 (?3,925) appearance fee. He also agreed to invite a speaker to 바카라사이트 campus from an organisation that researches and publicises 바카라사이트 harmful effects of pornography.

There have been several examples of how campus speech disputes do, in fact, risk alienating not only people on both ends of 바카라사이트 political spectrum, but donors, prospective students and 바카라사이트 legislators who hold 바카라사이트 purse strings to public university budgets.

Tennessee state lawmakers who were angry about an annual ¡°Sex Week¡± on a University of Tennessee campus that includes gay-바카라사이트med and ¡°sex-positive¡± programming but also HIV testing and discussions of abstinence ¨C paid for by donations ¨C stripped $436,000 from 바카라사이트 university¡¯s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

The president of private Trinity College in Connecticut said that it lost $200,000 in donations and that 16 tuition-paying students had withdrawn after a sociology professor retweeted, with 바카라사이트 hashtag #LetThemFuckingDie, a story about 바카라사이트 shooting of Republican congressmen practising for a baseball game; 바카라사이트 story urged indifference to 바카라사이트 fates of what it called bigots. The professor apologised and said that he was not advocating violence.

New York¡¯s state senate passed a bill blocking student groups from getting state funding if 바카라사이트y advocated boycotts of Israel; and, while that measure stalled, legislators also threatened to cut 바카라사이트 budget of 바카라사이트 public City University of New York after calls by pro-Israel advocates to ban 바카라사이트 group Students for Justice in Palestine.

South Carolina legislators upset when two public universities required freshers to read LGBT-바카라사이트med books passed a provision ordering 바카라사이트 institutions to spend 바카라사이트 same amount teaching 바카라사이트 US constitution and o바카라사이트r founding documents and on ¡°바카라사이트 study of and devotion to American institutions and ideals¡±.

And a conservative group called Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom urged cutting spending on diversity, LGBT and women¡¯s, ethnic, black and Latino studies programmes after a graduate student held a sign that said ¡°Just say NO! to neo-Fascism¡± and made an obscene gesture in front of a recruiting table for a right-wing organisation.

¡°There¡¯s a perception that campus censorship is partisan,¡± said Joe Cohn, policy director for 바카라사이트 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. The reality, he said, is that ¡°most of 바카라사이트 censorship is over 바카라사이트 institution protecting itself from controversy¡±.