Campus protests have reached Alabama. What should our universities do?
Campus protests, after all, present a learning opportunity on permissible conduct and expression.
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Dr. Allen Mendenhall
Allen Mendenhall is Associate Dean of the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University and Executive Director of the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy.
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I am, as they say, a “Reagan Baby.” This fact used to stun people. “How can someone born in 1983 be a full grown adult?” they would ask. “Where has the time gone?” they wondered. Things have changed; years have passed. These days my undergraduate students have no memory of 9/11, let alone any … Continued
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