“Free speech is a running joke on campus that nobody takes seriously, from the senior profs to the undergrads.”
Having a very hard time believing this very sweeping generalization. We know “senior profs” at UChicago who were all for the Statement. It followed the faculty report on freedom of expression so the faculty have been involved in the issue from the beginning. Perhaps there are some loud complainers - of course, if anyone tried to shut THEM down, well, I can’t even imagine . . .
The College is everyone’s focus here on CC but at @85bears46 has noted previously, UChicago is more than just the College. There are a whole lot of faculty who are basically unknown to the College students and you really have no idea what any of those guys think about this issue. Many of them are way too busy doing productive research and tending to the needs of their respective departments to be spending much time trying to convince the College kids that “nobody” takes academic freedom seriously. Any prof. who says that, btw, is playing YOU for a dupe 