How weirdly fragile and vindictive do you have to be to initiate a formal complaint against a guest lecturer for making an observation about public policy you think is off-base? How lame do you have to be to even know how to do that, and to do it so fast that the lecturer heard about it when she got home?
The first year medical school student who started things is the daughter of a GOP state official, she didn't fall far from the tree despite wanting to be a doctor.
Both her parents are doctors but both parents' made alot of money from for profit schools preying on veterans (NAU http://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/for_profit_report/Conte...) and that help pay for the campaigns to start her mothers political career so not a lot of self introspection being done in the family.
So the same people who fight change they interpret as pushing "woke" culture also believe they have a right to never be exposed to criticism or negative comments against anything with which they identify?
I don't think calls for "formal censure" and attacks on an individuals livelihood are the same as "criticism" or "negative comments." I think the effort to normalize the two being viewed negatively is entirely understandable.
Parent got downvoted but speaking as an Aggie it's not totally wrong. This is hardly the university's first free speech controversy and doesn't seem likely to be the last. It's a bipartisan mess too - Chancellor John Sharp is a prominent Democrat.
