Georgetown law students asked for "place to cry" over professor's tweet, per report - WKRC TV Cincinnati
WASHINGTON (TND) — Law students at Georgetown became so upset over a professor’s criticism of using racial preferences to select Supreme Court nominations that they staged a protest where “reparations” and a “place on campus to cry” were among the demands.
“Is there an office they can go to?” a student asked during a meeting between top Georgetown law school administrators and members of the Black Law Student Association, according to National Review. “I don’t know what it would look like, but if they want to cry, if they need to break down, where can they go? Because we’re at a point where students are coming out of class to go to the bathroom to cry.”
The meeting took place after Georgetown University Law Center Dean William Treanor announced it would be placing lecturer Ilya Shapiro on administrative leave pending an investigation of his tweets criticizing President Joe Biden’s pledge to use racial preferences when selecting a nominee for the Supreme Court.
At the meeting, the administrators reportedly took the student’s inquiry about crying seriously, National Review reported.
“It is really, really hard to walk out of class or a meeting in tears, and you should always have a place on campus where you can go,” said Georgetown University Law Center associate vice president and dean of students Mitch Bailin. “And if you’re finding that you’re not getting the person that you want to talk to or not getting the space that you need, reach out to me anytime — anytime — and we will find you space.”
The same student asking for a place to cry also reportedly asked the dean for a “reparations” package for Black students, which included excusing those students at the meeting from missing class, according to National Review.
Shapiro, who was slated to become the new executive director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, told Fox News he believes public debate in the United States is broken.
“Well, I'm still going through this storm,” Shapiro said to Fox News. “I just think that this is a moment where we can realize as a country, because I think this is bigger than me and Georgetown, that the way we go about discussing matters of great import is broken, and I'm hoping that my experience now can help in some way disrupt that and have people realize that there's a better way of discussing controversies.”
Celine Ryan, the editor-in-chief of Campus Reform, a nonprofit news organization covering higher education, told The National Desk (TND) that giving in to the students' demands, including to fire Shapiro, teaches students they have a right to be shielded from interacting with those who hold different perspectives.
“This puts students at a disadvantage because it deprives them of a well-rounded education,” Ryan told TND. “Georgetown University Law Center supposedly trains students to be the next generation of top lawyers. It is concerning to see this reaction to speech from individuals who will be tasked with interpreting and upholding law across the country – including the Constitution and the First Amendment.”
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