In midnight move, CMU students roll in new fence to protest closure of free speech icon
As midnight struck on Monday, a group of about 10 students rolled a wooden fence across Forbes Avenue in the glow of a red stoplight in front of Carnegie Mellon University’s campus. The students from the robotics, engineering, chemistry, art, psychology and theater schools pushed the fence on wheels up in front of Warner Hall, positioned it to face the CMU president’s office, and rammed the separate pieces together with the butt of a pickaxe.
As the wee hours ticked on, students unfurled paper to catch the drips, and painted a curated list of historical messages that had adorned “The Fence” — an iconic piece of the campus landscape and community that last week was suddenly off limits to students.
On Tuesday, CMU hosted Sen. Dave McCormick’s inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, with President Donald Trump in attendance, sparking widespread local pushback. Prior to the event, CMU’s Fence — a mainstay for campus free expression that students regularly repaint — was marked with messages asking the school administration to stop the summit.
One pre-summit message reading “No rapists on our campus” led to a whitewashing of The Fence and its closure on Wednesday afternoon. CMU President Farnam Jahanian said that message “crossed a line — not because of its viewpoint, but because of its personal, unaccountable nature, which undermined the spirit of civil discourse.”
https://www.publicsource.org/cmu-students-create-new-fence-to-highlight-campus-free-speech/
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President Trump IS a rapist.
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