27 February 2006
ruk.ca comments: Free David Weale
UPEI missed the boat. Profs cancel classes all the time or they have students teach their classes and nobody says nothing. Like the student said in the Guardian, theres only a handful of UPEI profs who can really teach but no one talks about that. Its jus
26 February 2006
25 February 2006
University of Toronto -- News@UofT -- News Digest -- (February 23, 2006)
Letter from the Society for Academic Freedom and Censorship to Wade MacLauchlan, President of UPEI, and MacLauchlan's response to SAFS, republished in the news digest of the University of Toronto.
ChuckerCanuck: I'm starting to blame the victim
Have you heard of the kerfuffle at the University of Prince Edward Island? The president caught wind of a university newspaper's plan to publish those cartoons - you know, the super-deadly evil ones from Denmark - and halted its distribution after only a
Free Speech at Risk, Canadian Proessors Warn
As an academic -- and one, who as a child, was fortunate enough to have his parents take him from a "fear" to a "free" society -- I suggest that the principle of freedom of speech must be treasured over all other principles, especially in universities, wh
Free Speech at Risk, Canadian Proessors Warn
So Wade MacLauchlan, the president of the University of Prince Edward Island, believes that censoring student newspapers is the best way to prevent potential violence and help his university strive towards "an engaged and positive learning environment."
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I found it difficult to believe that the president of a Canadian university would come out so strongly against freedom of the press -- or as Wade MacLauchlan refers to it, "reckless free speech." What I found most offensive, however, was the way he tried
24 February 2006
Campuses must uphold free speech
Letter to the National Post. 24 Feb 2006, from Walter Bruno, concerning Wade MacLauchlan's open letter to the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship
Campuses must uphold free speech
Letter to the National Post. 24 Feb 2006, from Doreen Kimura, concerning Wade MacLauchlan's open letter to the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship National Post
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Campuses must uphold free speech Letter to the National Post. 24 Feb 2006, from Jack Edwards, concerning Wade MacLauchlan's open letter to the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship
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Letter to the National Post, 24 Feb 2006, from Awrey, concerning Wade MacLauchlan's open letter to the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship
23 February 2006
snip’s snippets » Blog Archive » The Mohammed Cartoons: an ‘insiders perspective’
A response to a letter, posted on the website of the University of Prince Edward Island, from a Muslim woman to Wade MacLauchlan, President of the University of Prince Edward Island.
22 February 2006
The Manitoban Online - Free speech under fire
In response to the backlash, the University of Prince Edward Island, in a decision unbecoming of an institution that should encourage this type of discussion, removed all issues of the February 8 edition of the Cadre, the campus newspaper, because they de
.:Private Revolution: Censorship on the Island
by 1 otherFear of possible "mob action" must not be allowed to dictate to UPEI or any other Canadian university what ideas its students and faculty may express, disseminate and debate. By censoring this debate at your campus rather than taking the necessary steps t
The Manitoban Online - Student newspapers satirize cartoon controversy
Cadre editor-in-chief Ray Keating said that the cartoons were printed under the newspaperâ s mandate to inform students. He added that the cartoons were published with the support of the student union, but when the university administration banned
21 February 2006
Mark Steyn Online: Letter of the Week
Yesterday, my local university's student newspaper became the first paper in Canada to print the twelve "Muhammed" cartoons. Two hundred copies were picked up by students before the President and the student union/government agreed that the newsp
