US EditionColorado Mesa University president finds white supremacist’s views “vile,” but defends his right to speak on campus
- Students at Colorado Mesa University protested against a white supremacist speaker scheduled to talk on campus, organizing a Unity Festival to promote positivity and joy amid the controversy.
- President John Marshall defended the speaker's right to free speech but strongly rejected the hateful views associated with him.
- Students expressed concerns about potential violence and organized a march to the University Center in opposition to the speaker's message.
- Jared Taylor, the invited speaker, has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as promoting racist ideologies through his organization, the New Century Foundation.
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Colorado Mesa University president finds white supremacist’s views “vile,” but defends his right to speak on campus
A student’s invitation to a white supremacist to speak at Colorado Mesa University ignited weeks of pushback from the campus community, but the school’s president is defending the event even as he denounces the speaker’s views as “vile.” John Marshall, the Grand Junction school’s president, said in an interview Wednesday that the university’s role is not to “platform” or “deplatform” a controversial speaker, but to “allow space for all opinions …
'Just let it go': Outrage as campus refuses to cancel white supremacist's speech
Some Grand Junction community members, including Colorado Mesa University students and alumni, are angry about a white supremacist speaker scheduled to talk at the University Center on Thursday. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the speaker, Jared Taylor, as the 1990 founder of the New Century Foundation, “a self-styled think tank that promotes pseudo-scientific studies and research” that purports to show the superiority of white people…
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