言论自由, 艾尔摩舞者, 成堆, and Little Free Libraries
Our biggest surprise was discovering the Native American burial mounds on campus. 我在密苏里州西北部的土丘附近长大, 我们在印第安纳州南部也有, 但我从来没听说过伯洛伊特餐厅.
——莎莉·加斯基尔
言论自由
我很享受在伯洛伊特的日子. 我发现教授们很有吸引力, 知识渊博的, 和可访问, and I learned much that translated into further intellectual curiosity as the years passed by. 我还学到了, 回想起来, 贝洛伊特的自由主义, which I did not fully understand nor appreciate as a 贝洛伊特 student. So, it is with some concern, yet also with some understanding that I read of Mr. 王子.
看到学生们的行为，我感到很失望. 我理解他们的担忧、分歧，或许还有厌恶. However, everyone deserves to be listened to before we make our judgment. 只有倾听才能产生理解, 这种理解可以是积极的, 负, 或者在路中间. Yet, we must listen in order to understand, which in itself does not imply agreement or disagreement.
我们从倾听中学习. Learning requires a certain openness and only that openness will permit what we desire. 回想起我在伯洛伊特的短暂停留, 学习是每个人的目标, 这包括了解我可能不喜欢的东西. 不管我们在做什么, 我们必须想到一个古老的铁路道口, “停止, 看, 和听.’
切特切特的58
田纳西州Chatanooga.
I was shocked and dismayed at the behavior of 贝洛伊特 student protesters and administrators, who denied the freedom of speech rights of Erik 王子 and the students who invited him to speak on campus. 而不是允许对第一修正案权利的压制, the 贝洛伊特 administration should have used this as a teachable moment to help students understand that in another situation, 到更广阔的世界去,很可能是他们的言论自由权被侵犯了. Did they miss the history lesson on the damage wrecked on individuals and our society by McCarthyism? 我的叔叔, 菲尔Kerby, 洛杉矶时报的编辑, won a Pulitzer Prize for writing about the importance of defending the First Amendment. 我的阿姨, 伊丽莎白Kerby, 重要的工作是谴责好莱坞的黑名单吗, 在众议院非美活动委员会作证, 他是废奴主义者以利亚·洛夫乔伊的终身崇拜者, 谁在保护他的印刷机时被暴徒杀害了. I can only imagine the alarm they would have felt to see the incident that happened at 贝洛伊特. Rather than a “kerfuffle,” this was a deeply disturbing suppression of the right to free speech. While I see this sort of thing happening on other college and university campuses, 我真希望伯洛伊特能做得更好.
凯西·科克伦70
St. 路易斯,莫.
I found the spring 2019 issue of 伯洛伊特学院杂志 disappointing.
I read “The Controversial Speech That Never Happened” then flipped to “In Defense of Press Freedom” and was astonished at the obvious hypocrisy.
第一修正案对我们社会的成功至关重要. 然而，一方面，在颂扬新闻业重要性的同时, 贝洛伊特 has chosen to allow the denial of speech on its own campus through a threat of violence.
How could the administration choose to allow protesters to shut down an invited speaker?
I can understand passionate students who feel strongly about an issue and want to express themselves. 这种冲动是令人钦佩的，也是学生所期望的. 但政府应该更清楚. They should stand up for the principles upon which higher education is founded: free speech, 辩论, 以及对知识的追求. Could anyone claim that the invited guest could not present information and ideas that these students may not have considered before? 有了这些学生，你可以做得更好.
劳伦斯·沙利文，M.D.’79
威斯康星州Hustisford.
艾尔摩舞者
我很喜欢Basic Elmos的纪念品. 他们总是很有趣，有一次还来救我! 我在大学期间参加了许多舞蹈表演, 但是有一个夏季学期, 校园里跳舞的人很少. 我还是想做编舞, so I asked the Elmos if they would participate in an outdoor dance “happening.他们同意了, so I put together some kind of script/movement instructions using balloons filled with rice … that’s all I remember about it, 除了它很有趣, 非常愚蠢的, 还有和不跳舞的人一起工作的新体验. 谢谢,埃尔莫! I went on to have a professional career with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, 巡回美国, 欧洲, 和亚洲. I am now working on a biography of Hawkins and discovered that a primary influence on his aesthetic philosophy came from philosopher F.S.C. Northrup (1915)—a 贝洛伊特 alumnus who was likely there at the same time as my grandfather. 纵情者出现在最有趣的地方!
劳拉Pettibone 77
弗吉尼亚海滩，弗吉尼亚州.
更多关于土墩的故事
Students are leading educational and awareness projects around the 十大菠菜台子 Mound Group, 重要的是要赞扬那些从事这项工作的人. 校园丘可持续发展和倡导倡议, as mentioned in the article “A New Generation Advocates for the 成堆,” is made up of hard-working students who are behind many of the recent efforts.
Ilyssa Kosova’20 was instrumental in the leadership of the group and planning advocacy efforts, and I provided a great deal of additional support as part of a year-long special project I did on the mounds. 科索娃和22岁的伊莱娜·希顿将继续领导该组织. Their plans for future projects include bringing Ho-Chunk speakers to campus, 并在发电站安装有关本土的标志.
娜塔莉Wareham的19
哈德逊,威斯康星州.
我的母亲, 来自堪萨斯城的Marian Williams Gaskill, graduated from 贝洛伊特 in 1946 and always had fond memories of her war-time college years. My grandmother worked for the college as a recruiter in the mid-20th century and two aunts and an uncle also attended 贝洛伊特 in the 1940s.
My daughter and I visited campus for the first time several weeks ago. It was wonderful to see so many buildings that mom would have known, 包括伊顿教堂, 哪里需要每天做礼拜, 她在唱诗班唱歌.
Our biggest surprise was discovering the Native American burial mounds on campus. 我在密苏里州西北部的土丘附近长大, 我们在印第安纳州南部也有, 但我从来没听说过伯洛伊特餐厅. 我拿起一本2019年春季杂志, 感谢韦伯·阿诺德19年的及时报道. A quick review of 贝洛伊特’s history on the website does not mention the mounds. 我鼓励学院修改这一规定.
莎莉Gaskill
布卢明顿.
波多黎各的小型免费图书馆?
I was interested to see the note about Rick Brooks’69 on the inside back cover of the recent magazine, 特别是了解他在自由图书馆运动中的作用.
我刚刚在波多黎各工作了一年. Scattered throughout San Juan and other large cities are fascinating sidewalk free libraries, 通常是堆放在牛奶箱里, 在雨篷下避雨.
它们看起来完全没有经过策划，但我不能确定. 有些人有几十本书，有些人有几千本书. 从大学课本到小说，再到儿童读物，无所不包. 我把所有已经读过的书都放在了当地的“分店”.” I was always tremendously impressed by these and often wondered how they got started and by whom. 我的波多黎各朋友没有一个能说清楚他们的历史.
亚当·昆斯77
马里兰州银泉.
一定要写
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