Video published Tuesday by a local newsletter writer shows Luke Perez, an assistant professor who studies the ethics of war and international religious freedom, in a hallway while a local journalist and filmmaker, whom local news outlets identified as Mike Newman, holds up a camera and a smartphone. The incident is an unusual confrontation on a college campus that both conservative and liberal critics online said called into question the university’s commitment to free speech, given that the faculty members present are all affiliated with a new academic center focused on “free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry.” Faculty members have criticized the center because legislators who created it said they wanted to combat “leftist ideology” on campus. The writer who posted the video, DJ Byrnes, explained in his newsletter The Rooster that he and Newman had been trying to ask questions of E. Gordon Gee, the former Ohio State president, in the hallway of a campus building Monday.
Author: Tyler Kingkade
Published at: 2026-02-11 22:52:59
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