>> Sandra: THE FREE SPEECH
FIGHT AT UC BERKELEY IS RAMPING
UP.
NOW THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
BACKING THE CONSERVATIVE
STUDENT GROUPS WHO SUED THE
UNIVERSITY LAST YEAR CLAIMING
THE SCHOOL UNFAIRLY HAMPERED
THEIR ABILITY TO ARRANGE FOR
CONSERVATIVES TO SPEAK ON
CAMPUS.
JOINING ME NOW CABOT PHILLIPS,
MEDIA DIRECTOR FOR CAMPUS
REFORM.ORG.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
THIS WILL SET A NEW PRECEDENT
MOVING FORWARD THAT FREE SPEECH
IS SOMETHING BEING STOOD UP FOR
FOR EIGHT YEARS AS LEADERSHIP
INSTITUTE CAMPUS FORUM WE'VE
BEEN COVERING THE BIAS AGAINST
STANDING FOR JUSTICE ON CAMPUS
THAT EVERY AMERICAN COULD AGREE
WITH.
BERKELEY HAS BEEN PUT ON NOTICE
WHAT'S HAPPENING AND STANDING
COUNTRY.
>> Sandra: AS TO THESE
CAMPUS WERE UNFAIRLY HAMPERING
THEIR ABILITY TO BOOK
RIGHT-LEANING SPEAKERS LIKE ANN
COULTER AND ULTIMATELY LED TO
THESE EVENTS BEING CANCELED IN
SOME CASES OR EVEN MODIFIED OR
CHANGED.
SO DO YOU THINK THIS IS GOING
TO ENACT BIGGER CHANGE ON
COLLEGE CAMPUSES?
>> COLLEGES REALIZE THIS IS BAD
PRESS FOR BERKELEY TO SEE THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WEIGHING
AGAINST THEM.
COLLEGES REALIZE PEOPLE ARE
WAKING UP WHAT'S GOING ON.
THEY PLACE BARRIERS AGAINST
CONSERVATIVE STUDENT GROUPS.
THEY DON'T GET THE SAME FUNDING.
THE RUG PULLED OUT FROM UNDER
THEM UNDER AN EVENT.
THEY CAN'T COME TO CAMPUS
ANYMORE.
IT IS NOT JUST BERKELEY.
IT'S BEEN HAPPENING OTHER
PLACES.
STUDENTS RISK VIOLENCE BEING
COMMITTED AGAINST THEM JUST FOR
EXPRESSING THEIR POLITICAL
VIEWS.
>> RACHEL BRAND WROTE A PIECE
SAYING THE PROBLEM IS NOT
LIMITED TO A FEW COLLEGES
BARRING RADICAL SPEAKERS.
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ARE
RESTRICTING STUDENT OR
PROFESSOR SPEECH AND SILENCE
SPEECH THAT THEY DISAGREE.
>> THEY LABEL THINGS RADICAL.
IT IS CONSERVATIVE IDEAS.
WHAT THEY DO IS SAY THIS IS
CRAZY.
NAZIS, RADICAL IDEAS AND THEY
LABEL EVERYTHING CONSERVATIVE
