True, but I wouldn't have noticed that if I hadn't clicked on the link because of the provocative headline. Banning the play is calling attention to their other shortcomings.
Actually, now that I've thought about it some more, I disagree. Allowing student organizations is so often a question of funding them: it's one thing for an institution to tolerate viewpoints with which it disagrees, and it's another question for an institution to invest students' tuition dollars in condoms, gay-rights pamphlets, or whatever other student organization materials of which the Catholic Church does not approve.
The play, however, is not requesting the university's funding (particularly such an incredibly low-budget play as the Vagina Monologues), only the permission to use a performance space
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Maybe I'm out of the loop, but when I went to college, I don't know that there was even a mechanism to request permission per content. There was a mechanism to request permission to use a space. And the powers that be wanted some idea of what you would be doing with the space. But I don't believe there was a mechanism to filter by content -- it wouldn't have occurred to us to ask permission to present some particular play, only to sign up for the space to present a play. The University cared deeply about crowd control, observing fire regulations, etc. Even copyright -- do you have the performance rights for whatever it is you're performing? But no censor on what it is that was being performed.
Re: permissionsolargeckoMarch 10 2006, 20:37:22 UTC
Yes, but you went to a very different college than Marquette. Marquette University is probably more like Marquette University High School than it is like Yale University.
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