NTNU needs a school free to express

He was strange to follow the conflict around Øyvind Eikrem, researcher at NTNU. After referring to the Resett site regarding a murder case in Trondheim related to a single minor asylum seeker, Eikrem was called to the carpet. Eikrem is a researcher in the Department of Social Work (ISA). The head of the department sent a meeting to Eikrem the day after the publication of the case to announce that his statements were damaging the reputation of the department as a whole, writes the university newspaper. The rector and the dean quickly ruled on the case, finding that Eikrem's quotes in Resett were well outside the limits of freedom of expression. Now the case has taken a new turn.

Following According to Nettavisa Khrono, the researcher again summoned a letter of complaint from 44 students who responded to Eikrem's two-month-old statement in Resett. The institute asked Eikrem to treat the letter confidentially. The dissemination of the letter or its contents could constitute a "deplorable mental burden that would violate the Amls or Uhls Act (the Workplace Act or the Universities and Universities Act.") Ed. totally safe working environment.

Mix The allegation of offense is sensational and very harsh. Of course, Eikrem has the right to say that there is an appeal against him in a case concerning the freedom of expression of academic staff. It is absurd that a teaching institution is placed in such a situation. Handling is a noisy personal goal in a problem that could be solved simply by the institute facilitating conversations and evacuation. As they also did, but only one of the 44 students behind the call met.

It is tempting to ask where NTNU had thought of that? The logical extension is that the debates and opinions that surround us daily are so demanding that they trigger mental tensions contrary to the law. It's totally meaningless.

Oak Strip Statements Resett was not problematic in terms of freedom of expression. To the extent that they were unbalanced, this struck him, not at the university. If anyone at NTNU wanted to point out that he did not agree with Oak Strip, he could have done it.

The call comes from a relatively small group. 44 people out of a mass of 40,000 students. Management needs to find another way to handle such things. A university should teach people how to do it, even in difficult debates. There should be no school of strategies to keep people closed.