Stephanie Lemus
- Role
- Los Angeles Pierce College Chicana and Chicano Studies lecturer
- Statement date
"this is very dangerous for academic freedom"
Source and context
Interview
About this source
Original campus reporting and meeting photograph support attribution of faculty responses. Pillado’s meeting date is April 13; other utterance dates are not separately verified. Background arrest-date and citizenship wording conflict with stronger sources and are not imported as facts. Individual faculty comments are not a formally adopted college or union position.
Before the quotation
Lemus addressed the implications of the detention for faculty speech and equitable education in The Roundup’s original reporting.
After the quotation
Her warning is an opinion about broader implications, not a judicial finding of an academic-freedom violation. The source publication date is used because the exact interview or utterance date is not separately verified.
How this statement is classified
The speaker explicitly criticizes the action or its effects in the surrounding directly attributed statement.
- Recorded on
- Published here
- People and groups discussed
- Maryam Tahmasebi, Seyed Eissa Hashemi
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