Van Voorhis, now a UCI senior studying finance, said he “felt compelled” to record his teacher “to show the crazy stuff that happens in classrooms across America every day.” Peter Van Voorhis secretly videotaped his biology teacher who for nearly six minutes encouraged students to actively support gun control. That hoopla is in stark contrast to an incident at UC Irvine a year earlier. “I’ve had a number of students that have voiced their frustration with the ban to me, because they say that they want to record lectures but are now unable to,” he said. (He is not one of those being investigated). “The recording ban is a big problem not just as an accountability measure for teachers, but also as a tool for students,” Vincent Wetzel, a student at Orange Coast and president of the campus’s Republican club, said in an email. The school’s College Republicans posted the video clips, and instructor Olga Perez Stable Cox received an onslaught of hate mail that prompted her to temporarily leave her home.Īt the Costa Mesa campus, administrators continue to consider the appropriateness of Cox’s comments, while also recently expanding their investigation from one to four students from the College Republicans and an adviser, said Shawn Steel, one of five attorneys representing them. But if it’s in my phone, and it’s in my gallery, I’ll see it.”ĭiscussion about students secretly recording in classrooms gained national attention in December, when the Orange Coast College instructor told a human sexuality class that the election of Donald Trump was “an act of terrorism.” “But I’ve taken photos of the board to record assignments and due dates. “I’ve personally never done it, because I’m probably not going to go back and listen to it. “Of the seven teachers I’ve had so far, only one has said, ‘Don’t record me at all,’ ” he said. So I also ask students to not Tweet it out or put on social media what they say.”Ĭhristopher Zotea is an 18-year-old student at Norco College in Riverside County and doesn’t record – at least not video. “I bring in industry guests and some have big names. “When someone is recording you, the dynamic is different,” he said. Nate Thomas, a film professor and president of the faculty union at Cal State Northridge, doesn’t want distractions or the privacy of anyone in the classroom invaded.
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