PUBLIC MARKS from Mumvy with tag upei

Where is UPEI?????

In announcing disciplinary action against David Weale, UPEI President Wade MacLauchlan stated, "It is of paramount importance to ensure the highest standard of academic integrity and attention to student welfare for which UPEI is known. The UPEI community has been especially proud of the fact that our professors rank number one in the country for awards."

UPEI administrators acknowledge that the press should be free; they just don't believe it. Or rather, they believe the press should be free as long as it is not controversial. Or perhaps they fear rioting? Did the paper tell students to riot? Of course not, but the administrators don't want trouble. Is that how it works now? Those willing to threaten violence now determine what goes on at universities? There comes a time when you have to stand up to the bullies. That time is now. To do otherwise is cowardly.

In life, Ilan Halimi sold cellular phones on a boulevard named after Voltaire, off a square dedicated to la République. He was an ordinary young Frenchman, except for one thing; he was Jewish, which got him killed. So in death, after 25 days of torture

I found it difficult to believe that the president of a Canadian university would come out so strongly against freedom of the press -- or as Wade MacLauchlan refers to it, "reckless free speech." What I found most offensive, however, was the way he tried

In trying to understand the motives of those who have supported or opposed the publication of these cartoons we must realize that there are at least two sets of players on either side of the issue.