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The Seagulls & The Birds of Paradise
Spinning overhead, bright white – little sunbeams, Playful annoyance.
A forewarning of highly-priced paradise, a forewarning of distant corporate warmth – Looking for an opening, fighting for other’s property.
We don't take sides, we just want to make sure everyone has a safe experience.
Birds of paradise, hopping on the forest floor, gliding not flying.
Not nearly as cleanly singular, not nearly as outwardly bold, not nearly as corporately safe.
Colorful, different, personal – yet still hiding under the brush.
This sets up an additional conflict between protecting students' Constitutional rights of free speech and privacy and schools’ duty to keep them safe on campus.
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With lines from “Tracked: How Colleges Use AI To Monitor Student Protests” by Arijit Douglas Sen and Derêka Bennett, a Pulitzer Center reporting project.