Free speech is more than being spoken to

Eli Berk
The Daily Princetonian

“Terms of Respect,” the 2025 book by University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, claims in its subtitle that “colleges get free speech right.” And, in a required orientation event on Aug. 25, he attempted to convince the Class of 2030 that Princeton does too. 

In a panel discussion with Summer Lopez GS ’08, a co-CEO of PEN America, Eisgruber outlined Princeton’s "time, place, and manner" restrictions, which dictate the context of expression at Princeton, not the content. However, looking around Richardson, where some of the Class of 2030 watched the discussion on a livestream, I noticed that many of my peers were exercising their own freedom to not pay attention.

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