Mona Shadia: Ground rules went too far, free speech expert says at Irvine 11 trial

A UC Irvine professor overstepped his boundaries when he told students no disruptions were allowed during the Israeli ambassador’s visit to campus last year, another professor testifies.

Muslim students accused of disrupting a UC Irvine speech by the Israeli ambassador to the United States.

By Mona Shadia, Los Angeles Times

September 15, 2011

A UC Irvine professor overstepped his boundaries when he told students that no disruptions were allowed during the Israeli ambassador’s visit on campus last year, according to testimony given Wednesday in the so-called Irvine 11 trial in Santa Ana.

UC Irvine professor Rei Terada, an expert on the history and guidelines of free speech, told the Superior Court jury that fellow professor Mark Petracca, the event’s emcee, had no authority to set stringent ground rules.

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