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Student sparks free speech debate BRITTNY MEJIA Arizona Daily Wildcat
A student holding a sign that read “you deserve rape” last week has spurred a campuswide debate on the First Amendment. Dean Saxton — also known as Brother Dean Samuel — was preaching Tuesday near the UA Mall when he declared that he believed women should dress more modestly to avoid sexual assault. He held up signs, including ones that read “frat boys are rapists” and “rapists deserve the death penalty.” UA administrators are still reviewing several complaints filed with the Dean of Students Office about Saxton. They are also reviewing videos taken that day
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of several incidents between Saxton and passersby. However, officials say the First Amendment protects Saxton as long as he did not directly threaten another student. It “forbids the university from regulating or punishing speech or the expression of ideas or messages because they are offensive or controversial,” according to the Office of the General Counsel’s website. If the administration finds Saxton, a junior studying classics and religious studies, crossed the line, the UA will move forward with a code of conduct investigation, said Kendal Washington White, interim dean of students. “We’re doing our jobs and sometimes people don’t like the decisions that we make, but we’re upholding university
policy and the law,” Washington White said. “As much as we don’t like it, it’s protected speech.” Although there is a widespread perception that hate speech is constitutionally unprotected, there is no recognized exception in the law for hate speech, said Frank LoMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law Center. Where the line could be crossed is if Saxton targeted a specific person. However, if all he did was direct the message at a general audience, it is most likely constitutionally protected, LoMonte said. Additionally, the argument that the sign “incites lawless action” would be a difficult one to prove, he added. “Whether we agree with the message
or not, he probably had a right to say it as long as he said it in a nondisruptive manner,” LoMonte said. “It’s a horrible message, but I think it would be hard to make the argument that a rapist is going to say that he wasn’t otherwise inclined to commit a rape until he saw that sign.” Some students are urging the UA to do more to discipline Saxton. A petition started by Samantha Sharman, a gender and women’s studies junior, has collected more than 2,000 signatures. Sharman said she is assembling a packet to take to the Dean of Students Office, which includes sections of the student code of conduct that she believes Saxton has violated. “The fact that our campus is inadvertently and implicitly tolerating this kind of behavior is really upsetting
to the student body and to our community at large,” Sharman said. “While I understand the perspective of needing to protect student’s free speech, and I absolutely support that, their response to the issue was really unacceptable.” Depending on the administration’s response to the petition and to student complaints, there are also plans for a rally in front of the Dean of Students Office, Sharman said. “I think the bureaucratic response has been what’s angered us even more than Dean’s actual outburst,” Sharman said. “I’m not sure where the line is for the Dean of Students office between free speech and verbal assault, but I feel
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In line with sexual assault awareness month, the UA released a video on preventing sexual assault, integrating messages from men around campus. One in five women will be the victim of attempted or completed sexual assault before they graduate college, said one male student, in the opening of a video produced through Campus Health Service. The video, “University of Arizona Men Against Sexual Assault” was released last week. In it, male students from the UA were asked a series of questions about sexual assault. Students were asked what they would say to someone who has committed an act of sexual assault, as well as what they planned to do to change things. “We had a tremendous number of men agree to be interviewed and talk to us on their thoughts of sexual assault,” said Megan McKendry, a violence prevention specialist with Oasis, a program out of Campus
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ELIZABETH SCHAUER, associate director of choral activities and associate professor of music, conducts the University Community Chorus and Orchestra Spring Concert on April 28 in Crowder Hall. The main piece included soprano Yunnie Park, currently a graduate student, mezzo-soprano Mackenzie Romriell, DMA candidate in vocal performance and tenor Humberto Borboa Beltran, a graduate student pursuing a Master of Music degree in vocal performance.
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A new online resource will make a substantial amount of Mexican and Mexican American media available to the public for the first time. The UA libraries has created the Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press Collection on its website, which gives students, faculty and the public free access to more than 150 years of archive news from 20 significant Mexican and Mexican American publications. “Some of the Mexican and Mexican American newspapers are not widely available in print. There’s gaps in coverage and some are published for only a few years,” said Chris Kollen, the data curation librarian for the university libraries. “The UA library saw a real need to provide public access to these newspapers and magazines to encourage discovery and scholarship by students, researchers and community members.” Librarians, archivists and UA professors compiled, researched and digitized newspapers
and magazines from Tucson, El Paso, Texas; Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sonora, Mexico. The collection of publications ranges in date from the mid-1800s to the 1970s. On Wednesday night, a celebration was held to applaud the creation and importance of the database. The festivities included a panel discussion from distinguished speakers including Alberto Elías and Arturo “Arte” Moreno, both grandsons of the owners, publishers and editors of El Tucsonense, Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, former journalist, publisher and editor of Americas 2001 and El Corazon de Aztlan, Celeste González de Bustamante, assistant professor in the UA School of Journalism and Guadalupe Castillo, recipient of the 2011 YWCA Lifetime Achievement Award and co-editor of Coraje, which was published in Tucson by the Mexican American Liberation Committee. The online collection of these documents preserves historical records of the Mexican and Mexican American community during such times as the Mexican Revolution, the Great
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ALBERTO ELÍAS AND ARTURO “ARTE” MORENO, grandsons of the owners, publishers and editors of El Tucsonense, spoke at the debut of the Mexican and Mexican American Press Collection on Wednesday.
Depression and Mexican repatriation, World War II and the Chicano Civil Rights Movement.
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