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Reader comment on item: My Disrupted Talk at UCLA

Submitted by Julian Tepper (United States), May 29, 2007 at 09:16

Dear Daniel,

How about sending this to the UCLA Vice Chancellor:

Dear Vice Chancellor Naples:

May I correctly assume from your correspondence to me that if four persons similarly situated to the "four who overstepped the program's protocol" were to engage in similar behavior, that is, a momentary disruption of a UCLA event (such as, for example, a graduation ceremony or a dinner for UCLA financial contributors), that the University would be of the view that such a disruption would not be of a type that warrants disciplinary action and that the authorities handling of the situation would solely be to relocate the disrupters to a place where they could exercise their First Amendment rights without disrupting the particular scheduled event?

I wonder if he would answer.

Sincerely,

Julian Tepper

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Daniel Pipes replies:

I have sent Robert Naples such a letter today, May 29, 2007.