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UT Dallas bars 蜜桃直播 from speaking at student event

University continues its campaign against student newspaper by denying recognition, then stripping paper鈥檚 ability to invite speakers
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UT Dallas is at war with its student journalists.

After the longtime student newspaper The Mercury published unflattering coverage of the university鈥檚 response to pro-Palestinian protests on campus, administrators began a months-long campaign of retaliation. They  the editor-in-chief, refused to pay journalists as agreed, and even  articles on the Mercury website.

And as everybody but a college administrator would expect, their efforts to keep the paper silent and the student body ignorant of the school鈥檚 misdeeds have only backfired.

Undeterred, the student staff of The Mercury created The Retrograde, a wholly independent publication. But when the Retrograde tried to distribute its new issues around campus, administrators  the newsstands that would be used to distribute it. That鈥檚 why 蜜桃直播 went to campus, in person, to hand out copies of the paper and tell students about the school鈥檚 sordid efforts to quash student expression.

FIRE and The Retrograde planned to hold an event the following day to celebrate the triumph of these student journalists over censorship. And Texas has a  requiring public universities to allow student groups to bring in guest speakers. So Gutierrez told the university he planned to bring 蜜桃直播 Program Officer Dominic Coletti as a guest speaker. The administrators, resistant to allowing any critical speech on campus, told Gutierrez that only registered student organizations could invite guest speakers. And since UT Dallas has conveniently refused to recognize The Retrograde, Coletti could not speak on campus.

UT Dallas admins censor student paper by covering student's mouth

FIRE then hand-delivered a second letter to administrators, explaining that UT Dallas鈥 policy ignores and violates state law. The university ignored that letter, too. So at the event, Gutierrez read the address Coletti had planned to give, detailing UT Dallas鈥檚 abuses and The Retrograde鈥檚 resilience.

This absurd affair illustrates the malicious impact censorship can have on freedom of expression. UT Dallas administrators seem determined to continue on their lawless power trip, but they cannot silence the voices of the campus鈥 determined student journalists. And as everybody but a college administrator would expect, their efforts to keep the paper silent and the student body ignorant of the school鈥檚 misdeeds have only backfired.

Now, more students know of the university鈥檚 dirty dealings than ever before. And they鈥檙e letting administrators know censorship should not be bigger in Texas. You can, too.

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