Jacobs calls CODA's cancellation inconsistent with its free-speech purpose
Joanne JacobsEducation journalist and blogger
Jacobs criticizes the contradiction between CODA's free-speech purpose and its condemnation of the essay and cancellation of the forum. She also summarizes other writers' accounts. Those quoted writers' views are separate from her own assessment.
“Bizarrely, a college free speech group”
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Where this statement fits
Columbia's CODA cancels a press-freedom panel after Sundial's Cornell 7 essay; critics object
Columbia Open Discourse Alliance canceled a press-freedom panel after the Sundial published its Cornell 7 essay. CODA cited survivors' participation and safety. Critics challenged the cancellation; faculty advisers gave qualified assessments of that decision.
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Jacobs offers her own criticism while quoting other people. Her website metadata dates publication October 24.
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After discussing the backlash to the essay, she introduces CODA's action as bizarre.
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She questions Desai's explanation that the cancellation served free expression.
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Her own framing criticizes CODA's cancellation.
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