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Faurot, T. (2018, January 8). UCSD Police Investigate Harassing Voicemail Left at LGBT Resource Center as Potential Hate Crime. The UCSD Guardian. Retrieved from http://ucsdguardian.org/2018/01/08/ucsd-police-investigate-harassing-voicemail-left-at-lgbt-resource-center-as-potential-hate-crime/ On Dec. 20, a harassing voicemail was left on the main voicemail line of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center at UC San Diego. The call was made at 6:19 pm and included hateful and derogatory messages aimed toward people who identify as homosexual. It was determined that the person who made the phone call, who gave an identification in the voicemail, is not affiliated with UC San Diego. “Because the caller was not a UCSD affiliate, there are no policies from the university that apply to the situation. The caller was protected in their speech via the First Amendment [of the United States Constitution]. The First Amendment protects virtually all speech, no matter how unorthodox, offensive or distasteful,” Dr. Shaun Travers, Campus Diversity Officer and Director of the LGBT Resource Center told the Guardian. “As a public research university, UC San Diego supports everyone’s right to free speech. This discourse, however, was not civil, respectful, or reasoned, and was deeply offensive and hurtful.” “We have not received a phone call like this in many, many years,” Travers stated. “In the mid-‘90s, this was a common occurrence on the answering machine of the student organization that was a predecessor to the LGBT Resource Center.” UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
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