Ohio GOP supports college overhaul bills to create 'safe space' for conservatives

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Ohio conservatives want “safe spaces” on college campuses, demonstrated by the passing and introduction of controversial legislation meant to overhaul the state’s higher education system.

After hours of hearings and hundreds of people giving testimony, Ohio Republican senators passed Senate Bill 83.

The bill focuses on what GOP calls “free speech,” banning public universities in Ohio from having “bias” in the classroom and limiting what “controversial topics” can and can’t be taught.

“Free from the pressure to agree with a single ideological perspective, which dominates our campuses today,” bill sponsor Sen. Jerry Cirino (R-Kirtland) said.

Ohio State University professor Dr. Pranav Jani says S.B. 83 is dangerous and insulting.

“We don’t simply tell them what to think and then program them,” Jani said. “That’s not how education works these days.”

This bill has everything to do with young people turning away rapidly from the Republican Party, the professor added.




https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/05/19/ohio-gop-supports-college-overhaul-bills-to-create-safe-space-for-conservatives/