In this article, author talk about the a controversial speaker who was shouted by the students on Thursday night, disrupting a program and confronting the speaker in an encounter that turned violent and left a faculty member injured. President of the college, issued an apology to all people and speaker who wrote the book name ‘’The Bell Curve’’ linked to lower socio-economic status with race and intelligence. Apart from that, Professor Ms. Paton said that community had “failed to live up to our core values. Some of the protesters appeared but students had also been involved.
However, Conservatives said that the students were intolerant, had engaged in mob mentality and were quashing free speech, while those on the left maintained that the speaker was racist, hateful and had no place on their campus. …show more content…
Murray as a white nationalist who uses racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics. They also criticize that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority of the black and Latino communities, women and the poor.”
The letter, written before Thursday’s event, said that his views were offensive and based on shoddy scholarship and that they should not be legitimized.
Bill Burger, a spokesman for the college, said in an interview: “There are people who are eager to portray college students or the entire higher education. However, events like last night’s do feed that false narrative.”
Hayden Dublois, 21, a senior and treasurer of the club, said that the students had thought Mr. Murray — whose 2012 book, “Coming Apart,” examines the white working class — would be interesting to hear in light of the presidential election. But when Mr. Murray rose to speak, he was shouted down by most of the more than 400 students packed into the room, several witnesses said. Many turned their backs to him and chanted slogans like “Racist, sexist, anti-gay and go
However, Conservatives said that the students were intolerant, had engaged in mob mentality and were quashing free speech, while those on the left maintained that the speaker was racist, hateful and had no place on their campus. …show more content…
Murray as a white nationalist who uses racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics. They also criticize that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority of the black and Latino communities, women and the poor.”
The letter, written before Thursday’s event, said that his views were offensive and based on shoddy scholarship and that they should not be legitimized.
Bill Burger, a spokesman for the college, said in an interview: “There are people who are eager to portray college students or the entire higher education. However, events like last night’s do feed that false narrative.”
Hayden Dublois, 21, a senior and treasurer of the club, said that the students had thought Mr. Murray — whose 2012 book, “Coming Apart,” examines the white working class — would be interesting to hear in light of the presidential election. But when Mr. Murray rose to speak, he was shouted down by most of the more than 400 students packed into the room, several witnesses said. Many turned their backs to him and chanted slogans like “Racist, sexist, anti-gay and go