Heaven help us. The NC State Technician reports that Thomas Stafford, the vice chancellor for student affairs at NC State, has called for a week-long moratorium on speech in the Free Expression Tunnel. (emphasis is mine)
“I think the University should shut down all of the traffic through the tunnel for a week,” said Gayden. “There should be a sign that simply says ‘appreciate.’ Maybe then people would understand.”
However, since the Free Expression Tunnel is one of the only handicap accessible tunnels on campus, Stafford said that is not a plausible solution.
Instead, Stafford said a more appropriate alternative would be to prohibit all painting of the tunnel for a week.
“What I think we can look at is doing a moratorium on speech to where for a week we say there is not painting allowed,” said Stafford. “But to plan something like that, we would need to get all of the right people, the right organizations, involved.”
Ah yes, the “right” people and the “right” organizations. Scary, since that means there are “wrong” people and “wrong” organizations.
