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Mike MavredakisOctober 8, 202413min
The Associated Press interviewed President Michael S. Roth ’78 for a story on campus free speech on the one-year anniversary of the attacks of October 7. He talked about the ways Wesleyan is trying to foster discourse, including new courses on civil disagreement and faculty facilitation of conversation. “It’s challenging for students, as it is for adults — most adults don’t have conversations with people who disagree with them,” Roth said. “We’re so segregated into our bubbles.”   Roth spoke about how to navigate disagreement on campus, “safe enough spaces,” related campus activity to democratic practice at an event for the New…