Controversy over Funding for Visiting Speakers at UNC

Date: 11/12/2009 5:00 pm

Continuing a culture of protest around visiting speakers, University of North Carolina’s Student Congress was protested by several students over a funding request by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to bring three visiting speakers.

UNC-Chapel Hill’s chapter of SDS originally sought $6,095 or $2,000 honorarium for each of the three invited speakers at last week’s meeting of Congress’ finance committee.

The SDS funding request says the speakers led a human rights delegation to Colombia last August and would speak about their trip to an estimated 70 to 100 students.

Ten concerned students attended the finance committee meeting to oppose the request, saying the speakers were not worthy of so much student money.

“We don’t believe, by any stretch of the imagination, that these speakers are qualified to receive honorariums,” said Zack De La Rosa, one of the protesters.

The finance committee voted to reduce the proposed appropriation, saying the initial proposal seemed excessive, and Chairman Zach Dexter said he believed the likely audience would not be large enough to justify $2,000 per speaker.

De La Rosa said the people protesting the funding of the SDS speakers have no political motivations for their objections.

“This was not set up for any political reasons, other than what we believe to be sanity,” De La Rosa said.

Tar Heel students have shown that they take their visiting speakers very seriously. This September, six students underwent legal proceedings for protesting visiting speaker U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) in April. In that case however, students took issue with Tancredo’s message rather than the use of student funds.

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