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When I was a sophomore that was when the Speaker Ban Law was kind of controversial and there were a lot of protests at UNC.

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I don’t think we had that many protests at NC State but we did pass legislation about it in student government,

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basically underwriting that academic freedom should be preserved, that it’s not a problem to have any speaker come on a campus

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and that we’re adults and we could tell the difference between truth and not truth. So we passed one bill that encouraged students–. 

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Since they were banned to hear a speaker at either UNC or NC State, he was going to speak at Duke.

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I mean they’re not a public institution and they didn’t have to worry about what the legislature said, so they invited this speaker

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and it was kind of thumbing your nose, I think, at the Consolidated University.

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So we suggested students should go to Duke to hear it, and then we also passed a resolution about affirming academic freedom.

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But that was about the extent of it. I mean what else could you say?