After last semester’s fiery blowback, EMPT recently announced that a “new, innovative” event security fee system was forthcoming. The announcement — a passing reference tucked away deep in the umpteenth line of a campus-wide bulletin — revealed no new plan, nor did it evince any new understanding of why the event security fee is so loathed. The event security fee is in fundamental tension with the University’s commitment to free expression. The cost of security is then passed along to the event’s organizers via the security fee. Full stop.” Now, Cornell has a unique chance to heed her advice — and ditch the event security fee entirely.

Source: Daily Sun February 27, 2019 04:41 UTC