{"id":1330,"date":"2011-10-30T09:13:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T13:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/i-would-certainly-encourage-you-to-speak-your-mind-vsu-pres-levy.html"},"modified":"2011-10-30T09:13:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T13:13:05","slug":"i-would-certainly-encourage-you-to-speak-your-mind-vsu-pres-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/i-would-certainly-encourage-you-to-speak-your-mind-vsu-pres-levy.html","title":{"rendered":"I would certainly encourage you to speak your mind &mdash;VSU Pres. Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Calhoun asked VSU Interim President Louis Levy<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/10\/we-tend-to-promote-free-speech-vsu-president-levy.html\"><br \/>\nwhere are the free areas on campus?<\/a><br \/>\nDr. Levy answered:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6286424697\/in\/photostream\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6034\/6286424697_d234739e07_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nRight outside of Palms Quad there&#8217;s a free speech thing,<br \/>\nbut, as you can see, uh&#8230;. [gestures around]<br \/>\n<br \/>\n[laughter]<br \/>\n<br \/>\nYou know, like I said.<br \/>\nIf someone&#8217;s violating the law here, and creating a dangerous situation<br \/>\nby, uh, physically disrupting the students or faculty, that&#8217;s one thing,<br \/>\nwe deal with that&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut if it&#8217;s, even this gnat, we will allow this gnat to&#8230;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<br \/>\n[laughter]<br \/>\n<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ll allow them presence on campus, although&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6286428211\/in\/photostream\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6060\/6286428211_20a868899e_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nI would certainly encourage you to speak your mind about issues.<br \/>\nAnd come July 1<small><sup>st<\/sup><\/small> or some time before,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be able to do the same.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n[laughter]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Henry Calhoun shook his hand, as did I, and he walked away.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UXaNzggT4ps\"><br \/>\nthe video:<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UXaNzggT4ps\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nI would certainly encourage you to speak your mind &mdash;VSU Pres. Levy<br \/>\n<br \/>\nInformation and Organization,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nGeneral Assembly, Occupy Valdosta (OV),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 27 October 2011.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Calhoun asked VSU Interim President Louis Levy where are the free areas on campus? Dr. Levy answered: Right outside of Palms Quad there&#8217;s a free speech thing, but, as you can see, uh&#8230;. [gestures around] [laughter] You know, like I said. If someone&#8217;s violating the law here, and creating a dangerous situation by, uh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,40,15,70,2,20,3400,3529,3,134],"tags":[3535,3532,1449,8701,3531,3533,548,8702,3530,12,7,8871,3534,8700,6,1175,8743],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-education","category-ethics","category-government","category-law","category-occupy-valdosta","category-occupy-valdosta-27-october-2011","category-transparency","category-vsu","tag-27-october-2011","tag-free-speech","tag-general-assembly","tag-georgia","tag-henry-calhoun","tag-information-and-organization","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-louis-levy","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-occupy-valdosta","tag-ov","tag-transparency","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-state-university","tag-vsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}