More on Speech at UCLA

Note: One suspects that the powers-that-be took note of the UC prez's creation of a free speech center (see earlier blog post) in making the  decision described below:

From KPCC: The University of California, Los Angeles said on Friday that it will not charge the Bruin Republicans student group a fee for a November 13 campus event featuring controversial conservative speaker Ben Shapiro.

The Bruin Republicans had protested the potential fee – charged if more than 30 percent of the audience is from outside the campus – as a tax on their free speech.

“Given UCLA’s commitment to free speech, and to avoid any appearance to the contrary,” said campus spokesman Tod Tamberg in an email, “UCLA has decided to also pay the basic security costs for this event. UCLA will be adopting this approach going forward while it reviews its current policy to ensure that it continues to be a useful planning tool for UCLA and registered student organizations.”...

Full story at https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/10/27/77081/ucla-backs-down-from-free-speech-confrontation/