Editorial: In response to George Will/Scripps Conflict

October 23, 2014 Scripps Voice

In early October, The Claremont Independent publicized the fact that conservative journalist and speaker George Will was uninvited to speak at the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public Affairs Program event at Scripps College after his offensive and harmful comments about the issue of sexual assault on college campuses in his June 6 column titled “Colleges Become the Victims of Progressivism.” The Scripps Voice condemns Will’s column and fully supports the Scripps administration’s decision to not finalize the plans that would have brought Will to speak on campus.

Scripps terminates plans to bring George Will to campus

October 23, 2014 Lucy Altman-Newell

Nationally-syndicated- conservative journalist George Will was slated to speak this year, but Scripps made the decision to not go through with the invitation after he wrote a column for Washington Post about sexual assault on college campuses which claimed that “when [colleges and universities] make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate.”