Rep. Kamlager-Dove: USC Has Put up a ‘Free Speech Zone’ for All Protesting Groups

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KAMLAGER-DOVE: “Well thank you for having me on. We certainly have been monitoring the situation at usc, as well as ucla. I will say for a while the information coming out has been murky, distressing, and disjointed. We know for sure is that campuses should be safe places for students to learn and debate and also exercise freedom of speech. They also have to be spaces that are free from discrimination against race, color, creed, national origin. I certainly cannot speak to the specifics about the every school situation, but I do know at usc, the encampment has dispersed, protests have dwindled as they are preparing for commencement exercises for next week and the university has put up a free speech zone, so that all protesting groups have the same opportunity to express themselves in the same spot. I think that’s what is so important about title vi of the civil rights act, which is how you should be even and neutral, and how you allow students to debate, to lawfully and peacefully demonstrate, and to exchange ideas.”