U OF O WATCH: U of O protects the campus visual environment from inflammatory material capable of inciting confrontation

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"One knows … that the university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class. … It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticise and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them." -- Foucault, debating Chomsky, 1971.

Saturday, February 28, 2009

U of O protects the campus visual environment from inflammatory material capable of inciting confrontation

In the interest of creating a sterile zone where students are free to develop and grow…?
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(Don’t miss President Allan Rock’s upcoming March 5th lecture entitled “Canadian Perspectives”.)
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From the media office of the University of Ottawa:
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"News Releases & Announcements
Statement regarding Posting Regulations"
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"OTTAWA, February 23, 2009 — Under University of Ottawa policies, the administration has the right and the responsibility to ensure that all posters comply with the Posting Regulations before they are displayed on a bulletin board owned by the University. The regulations set out principles to be applied in considering such requests.
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One of the posters in relation to Israeli Apartheid Week was found to be inconsistent with our posting regulations for reasons that included the use of an image that was inflammatory and capable of inciting confrontation."

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U of O protects the campus visual environment from inflammatory material capable of inciting confrontation

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