IDEAL panelists offer perspectives on student protests
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Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers an IDEAL panel on student protests and free speech.
- The News-Letter reported that students and faculty discussed protests and free speech, with SGA executive vice president AJ Tsang among the panelists.
- The paper reported that Tsang said University protest guidelines were written because administrators feared “disruption and challenges to the status quo here at Hopkins.”
- The article says graduate student Matthias Lalisse discussed the “Hands Off the Humanities” campaign; the University kept the program but renamed it the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature.
- The reporter writes that MSE Symposium protesters gave students information before Ohio Governor John Kasich’s 2017 campus talk, which LaRochelle called effective because it prompted questions about Kasich’s record.
- The article adds that LaRochelle said social media helps recruit people to protests, while Tsang said it gives more people a voice.