{"id":420,"date":"2005-12-01T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=420"},"modified":"2005-12-01T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T16:00:15","slug":"student-photography-and-speech-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Student photography and speech on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erin O&#8217;Connor has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erinoconnor.org\/archives\/2005\/12\/more_on_penn_fr.html\">set of links and commentary<\/a> on the case of a University of Pennsylvania student who posted pictures of a couple making love in a campus dorm window (in plain public view).  Since bad taste seems to be going the rounds these days as a target of university crackdowns (John Daly, anyone?), there&#8217;s not much more I can add other than to point out that poor taste does not justify censorship or retaliation.<br \/>\nI was a graduate student at Penn from 1987-1992, and I&#8217;ll admit I was largely distanced from events. I thought Penn&#8217;s administration was being foolish, but that struck me as all too common those days (when Penn&#8217;s real-estate department tried to close <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblio.com\/bookstores\/hooo.html\">House of Our Own Books<\/a> until a faculty uproar). I didn&#8217;t know Alan Kors (the primary opponent of speech codes at Penn) because I&#8217;m an Americanist, he&#8217;s a Europeanist, and Penn&#8217;s history faculty is large enough that I didn&#8217;t take courses from all the Americanists, let alone others (other than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sscnet.ucla.edu\/history\/hunt\/\">Lynn Hunt<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/history.uchicago.edu\/faculty\/borges.html\">Dain Borges<\/a>). Sheldon Hackney was president of the university at the time, before becoming head of the NEH under Clinton. Now he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.upenn.edu\/faculty\/hackney.htm\">back as a member of the history department<\/a>.  Not eliminating the speech code quickly was one of Hackney&#8217;s worst mistakes as university president, and I hope he&#8217;s learned enough to be on the right side this time (and to speak up).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin O&#8217;Connor has a set of links and commentary on the case of a University of Pennsylvania student who posted pictures of a couple making love in a campus dorm window (in plain public view). Since bad taste seems to be going the rounds these days as a target of university crackdowns (John Daly, anyone?), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-6M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}