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Some student journalists in the USA are thinking twice before writing around The editor-in-chief of a student magazine at Columbia University says to catch controversial topics and in the crosshair of the American President Donald Trump’s administration.
This self -censification takes place in the middle of a wave of arrests on campus, prison terms, threats from deportations and student visa that are canceled.
US officials have announced that the owners of student visa of the deportation of their support for the Palestinians and the criticism of Israel’s behavior in the war are subject to the threat to the US foreign policy. Several student activists were arrested by immigration officers without charges.
The Columbia University was at the top after the wave of Propalestinian protests that took place on his campus in New York City.
At the beginning of this year, the Ivy League University agreed to put its Department of Studies in the Middle East under new supervision and to revise its rules for protests and student discipline, which implemented an extraordinary ultimatum of the Trump management to implement these and other changes or risks of dollars of federal financing.
The political review of Columbia is a student agency at Columbia University, which publishes OP EDs, interviews and political analyzes for everything, from campus messages to international affairs. But lately some contributors have been careful when it comes to certain topics they could set under to Unwanted spotlight, says the editor -in -chief Adam children. Some even asked to put down their articles.
Children spoke to Nil Kӧksal, moderator of CBC Radio’s, How it happens. Here is Part of Your conversation.
What reasons do you state when people turn to you and ask you to put down your articles?
In some cases we have authors who give nebulous reasons that say: “Hey, I just don’t want my name out there.” But in other cases we specifically quote writers what is going on and say: “Hey, I would really simply protect it and protect my family.”
In general, I think that people currently have their own speech due to the political atmosphere on the campus and in the country or are currently cooling their own speech, which has also given a significant contingent of people who were also trained by what is going on and further pronounced.
So people still send them their work and hope to be published and convey their message. But the people who turn with these different reasons – sometimes vague, as they suggest – what do they tell them?
We always offer you the opportunity to resume at any point you want. If someone takes the time to reach us to say: “Hey, I would prefer that my article is currently not on the website,” we sign.
And if you want to comment on the situation in general or if you still have an element of the argument that you want out there, we encourage you to publish anonymously. This is a guideline that we have not really entertained in the past, but now we are expanding and advertising and promoting the entire student body.
How is it for you to record these articles in the face of the work you have done?
Fortunately, these inquiries are not nearly similar to the tide that I would imagine to achieve many different publications. But it’s sad. I don’t want our work or work that we do with our authors use someone, especially in the physical danger. But also as a publication based on the principle and practice of freedom of speech, it is disappointing that our country has been reached to this point.
The fact that we continue our production at unprecedented level is encouraging – even for our history – and that people are interested in people. We will get our print magazine out next week. People remain committed, although the situation may be depressing personally.
A very lively and recent example of the fact that a person’s lives are affected and changed due to a opinion is Rumeysa Ozturk, the student of Tufts University. It was taken into custody by (immigration and customs authority) and has been in custody since last month. She had written an opinion of opinion in which she called her own school to separate from companies that have connections to Israel. Did you expect such inquiries?
Then, yes, absolutely.
Fortunately, we have never seen the flood that I heard in various publications. Nevertheless, I spoke to several writers – especially international students – who are concerned. To the extent to which they requested, we were ready to give people the opportunity to fulfill their minimum items and to meet such things until we have a little more clarity about the situation in general, which seems to be sure and what is not.
Nevertheless, we always encourage everyone to be honest and to write from his own perspective and not to moderate just the way the school administration has to do, and what the government is currently asking for.
So you received about a dozen of these types of inquiries. What types of topics do we talk about here?
We probably had about half a dozen people who request takedowns, and about half a dozen more inquiries.
Overall, people are much more afraid to talk about Palestine than anything else.
But now, due to increased tensions between the USA and everywhere else – and especially international students who live in China, for example – the letter or critical criticisms of the USA or the Chinese government is a different kind of adhesive that we learn how to navigate when the tensions are inflamed.
There is concern that this will extend to other problems beyond Gaza. At the moment we have mainly heard rumors of it. My personal opinion is that soon -especially as a contestation between the Trump administration and the universities -that this will continue to escalate in a way that we may not have expected.
How will you imagine it – for the unexpected?
The approach, which most agree with our function as a student publication, is to continue. To continue writing, continue to be transgressively where this is necessary and ultimately to represent what the student body feels.
And the student body feels very, very strong in relation to the direction in which the university reacts to the government, in the direction in which the country is being led, and the direction of freedom of speech on the college campus.
At the end of the day we are an event location where all voices on the Bachelor Campus can speak – and we will continue to do this ten times.
