U of C Should say what it really fears from pro-life

Nigel Hannaford, Calgary Herald:

What are they so afraid of at the University of Calgary?Or at the Ministry of Advanced Education? Does nobody have an appetite for a simple disagreement any more, that a censorship fight should be shaping up at the university and the only people who seem to be showing any intestinal fortitude are a handful of students belonging to the Campus Pro-Life Club?

Perhaps we should no longer be surprised people who think abortion is a dreadful thing, expect hostility. The newspapers have been full of it.

or, as on the other five times in the past three years, theUof C. is doing everything it can to discourage it. Why?

Who knows? It's no good asking the U. of C. comm people, who, having released a carefully worded statement a week ago, announced yesterday that's all they're saying.

The closest the university came to explaining itself was that it "is taking steps to limit the risk of a confrontation on campus,"which seems a tad disingenuous. If it's a riot they're worried about, it didn't happen the first five times --unless you call some heated arguments a riot--so why would it expect one Wednesday, when the pro-life kids want to set up their display? And if someone did start throwing the exhibits around, who should be restrained --that person, or the people with the display?

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