Professor Rotunda Prints Op-Ed on Free Speech
March 23, 2009
Professor Ronald Rotunda published an op-ed in The Panther entitled, “The right of free speech, regardless of what is spoken.” The op-ed discusses the controversy surrounding the legal memos written by Visiting Professor John Yoo during his tenure under the Bush administration. Professor Rotunda states, “Debating these issues in an intellectual environment is what the best universities offer – people learning to disagree without being disagreeable . . . I equally defend the free speech right of those on my own faculty who would condone waterboarding in a “ticking-bomb” scenario. The lessons of free speech must be learned and relearned every generation.” Read op-ed…