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The videos from the University of Victoria debate are now up. Stephanie Gray's lecture went much better than her collegue's Jojo Ruba's. Suprising to me that U. of Vic. would have a more liberal culture than McGill....(though, according to reports, there was still some childishness at the start of Ms. Gray's first round of debates). (h/t WinteryKnight)

Update: The debate was a rousing success: University of Victoria Debate Overflows Capacity.

Brushing aside the usual mewlings about the Canadian Centre of Bioethical Reform compromising the "emotional safety" of students and creating a "discriminatory and unsafe environment", University of Victoria bioethicist Eike-Henner Kluge, who will debate CCBR's Stephanie Gray on October 21 at the Unversity of Victoria, understands what a university actually is:

A university is a place where ideas are examined to see whether they are tenable,” said Kluge. To interfere with that examination process is to undermine the very concept of a university.

I wish these illiberal and petulant students understood that by stifling the truth and debate they are slowly sucking the life from their universities, killing society's capacity to think critically in the womb, so to speak...

Update: Binky on the McGill free-speech fiasco and university illiberality in general:

SHOCKING, BUT HARDLY a surprise, given 50 years of student & faculty radicalism on the modern un-diversity campus. So the modern jobs-training & ideology centre known as McGill is now one big Professor Alisnky sex & tolerance re-education centre, where all the happy little Isms run free and frolic in the fields…