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Originally Posted by Makarov
Late to the party, but I found this paragraph interesting:
That is one of the risks of universities permitting speakers whose ideas are abhorrent and do not withstand academic rigour to speak at a university: to the casual observer, observing a speaker giving a speech/lecture at a university may give the speaker a legitimacy he or she does not deserve.
Universities control who they permit to lecture/teach every day. For instance, MIT has repeatedly declined my offer to teach one of its quantum physics courses.
Anyway, I'm not sure where I fall on this debate. Its a very complex problem.
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This is a good point, but only if it is a university scheduled event. As a guest lecturer my work must meet rigor. A guest speaker as a invitee of a club, does not. When it is a club event the school's reputation isn't supposed to be lent to the presenter, but I can see how it would work, just because they get to put on their resume they spoke at this institution. I guess the difference is understanding the contrast between guest lecturer and guest speaker.