RHSU Releases Statement Announcing ‘No Platform’ Referendum In Light Of Katie Hopkins Debacle
Since the leaked announcement and subsequent event cancellation there has been significant debate on campus and on the Facebook page Overheard at Royal Holloway University.
The debate has often been pointed and lively with students
from both sides of the argument, proponents of ‘No Platform’ and those of unadulterated
‘Free Speech’ weighing in. The main thread of the debate is this; does allowing
Ms. Hopkins onto campus encourage healthy debate or does it create an unsafe
and intimidating environment for the student body which is open and diverse?
Both sides have been argued passionately, which, at face value, is good as it has taken a controversy of this magnitude to pull Royal Holloway out of the political apathy that the student body was previously languishing in. However...