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EDITORIAL: Occupy FIU must reevaluate its demonstration methods

We understand that FIU is still a young university that lacks a lengthy history of campus activism. It is learning how to react to a new generation of students who are witnessing a unique social movement in other cities and university campuses that does not seem to be stopping anytime soon. We all need to get use to the soapbox. But let’s make sure it’s okay to stand on it first.




Campus protest zones undermine free speech rights

As many know, the Biscayne Bay Campus is much smaller than the Modesto Maidique Campus, and as of late it seems to be being treated quite differently because of this fact. On March 10, 2011 The Beacon reported that at BBC, protesting is only allowed in the small, specifically the area limited to the space by the flagpoles in front of the parking lot.