Divergent definitions of “racism,” “injustice” and related terms – and the importance of those differences – became major themes of a panel discussion this week at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
The Monday afternoon program kicked off the university’s second annual Free Speech Week, which featured six panel discussions and wound up on Thursday.
UW-Stout’s Free Speech Week features speaker whose challenge to ‘Day of Absence’ produced protest ‘firestorm’
A former faculty member at Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, whose challenge of the school’s day of reverse racial segregation drew a firestorm of protests that forced his classes off campus and closed the school for three days, will speak Monday (Oct. 15) during University of Wisconsin-Stout’s Free Speech Week.
His appearance will headline the first of six panel discussions on various aspects of freedom of speech. Chancellor Bob Meyer will moderate the “Free Speech and Anti-Orthodoxy” discussion. scheduled from 4 to 5:30 p.m.