Former U.S. senator and current University of Florida Ben Sasse leads on ensuring that everyone on his campus is safe and urges other university presidents to follow his lead.
"At the University of Florida, we have repeatedly, patiently explained two things to protesters: We will always defend your rights to free speech and free… Young men and women with little grasp of geography or history wade into geopolitics with bumper-sticker slogans they don’t understand. Universities have an obligation to combat this ignorance with rigorous teaching, writesUniversity of Florida President and ex-Sen. Ben Sasse on Sunday implored colleges to take his school’s lead and stake out a balance between free speech and order as anti-Israel protests take campuses by storm.
“I’m a First Amendment zealot,” Sasse told CNN’s State of the Union.” “We will always defend your right to free speech and free assembly. And also, we have time, place, and manner restrictions.