You can t distance yourself from this. When you see this it s apparent what we re doing. You never get used to these pictures, I don t enjoy looking at these, Lawrence said. There were students who became verbally aggressive toward the people working the display, a mix of staff and volunteers from the campus and community. Cunningham said only a small handful of people have ever attacked the display.
Most people have the maturity, respect and sophistication to look away.
We have a right to show pictures, passers-by have a right to look away, he said. There s a lot of confusion about the First Amendment. People like their right to free speech, but when they hear something that offends them they want to censor it. Everybody has a right to exert their First Amendment right, said Dean of Students Gregory A. Peoples. A lot of what the First Amendment is about is the duty to look away, Cunningham said.