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BU’s John Silber Did Not Support Free Speech on His Campus

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 14, 2023 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Boston University student anti-apartheid protestors in 1986. Photo of 2010 scan of a page from the April 30, 1986 edition of the Daily Free Press by Jason Pramas. Original Daily Free Press photo by Paul Callard.

And I know that because his Boston University administration expelled me for participating in nonviolent student anti-apartheid protests in 1986

Recently, CommonWealth Magazine published an opinion piece by Rachel Silber Devlin, the daughter of former Boston University Chancellor John Silber, who published a book about her father last year and is giving a talk about him at BU today.

Her article paints a picture ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: anti-apartheid movement, apartheid, Apparent Horizon, boston university, college, Column, Constitution, criticism, Divestment, free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, Jason Pramas, John Silber, justice, Protest, Rachel Silber Devlin, south africa, student

SPECIAL FEATURE: PRIDE, PREJUDICE, AND THE PATRIARCHY

Written by MAX L. CHAPNICK Posted June 28, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Brown is retiring this year, and the university she leaves is very different from the one of her tenure suit that began more than 30 years ago. But while much has changed, Brown’s story contains a certain timelessness, particularly in the current struggle by women against institutions traditionally dominated by men. Like an Austen novel, Brown’s battle forces a reckoning with the type of sexism society tries to hide from itself. As Brown says, “Making the people who had done this have to defend themselves and be accountable, that was worth it.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: academia, Boston, boston university, BU, Jane Austen, John Silber, Julia Brown, literature, metoo, SCOTUS, sexism, Supreme Court, tenure

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