Here is video of Nanci Howe, Stanford University’s Associate Dean and Director, Student Activities and Leadership, happily circulating among the Stanford students walking out of my event there last Tuesday, patting them on the back and chatting with them.
Below is full video of the walkout. Howe appears at 2:44. After encouraging the walkout, she refused to allow in students who actually wanted to attend. She appears again at the end of this video, grimacing as I criticize Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell for failing to teach or defend the freedom of speech, and for acting to crush dissenting opinions.
With Howe stage-managing the disruption of the event this obviously, it’s clear now why she refused to allow streaming.
Howe and Snehal Naik, Assistant Dean and Associate Director of Student Affairs, ensured that as few Stanford students as possible would hear me. They did this first by making sure that the hall was packed with students who had no intention of attending the lecture, but were there only to sabotage it by denying seats to people who actually wanted to attend. They even kept out some members of the College Republicans, the group that was sponsoring the event.
Then, after the walkout, they refused to allow in people who actually wanted to attend, refusing repeated requests to do so.
They also refused to allow the Young America’s Foundation to stream the event, clearly because they knew what was in the offing and did not want video going out live that would show just how much Stanford has deteriorated and how opposed it is to free discourse.
As you watch Howe enjoying her big moment, reflect on how Stanford, and other American universities today, are no longer centers of higher learning, but factories of hard-Left indoctrination. Howe should be fired immediately, of course, and Stanford should demonstrate that it believes in the freedom of speech with more than just lip service. But instead, Howe will probably get promoted, with a big raise.