While Congress isn’t likely to take legislative action to safeguard free speech on college campuses as some have proposed, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agreed Thursday that school administrators must tackle head-on what they described as an increasingly serious issue.
“I hope the United States Congress won’t do what it often does and believe we’ve suddenly become wise enough to tell 6,000 colleges and universities what to do,” Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican and chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said during a hearing before his panel on the topic. “[That’s a] bad idea. But there should be some sensible way to allow speakers to speak and audiences to listen while still protecting freedoms offered by the First Amendment.”
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