Opposition to free speech forum is solely based on ignorance.

Perhaps the biggest problem with Matt Cerezo’s recent column (“Space for free speech is ample,” March 27) opposing a free speech forum and a less restrictive policy governing freedom of expression is that he doesn’t understand why some students and campus organizations are demanding an expansion of the current policy.If Cerezo would have attended the March 23 free speech forum, he would have found that there were no “solicitors” lobbying at the event. Instead, he would have heard a diverse group of concerned students intelligently expressing their desire that the blanket advance-notice requirement in the current San Diego State policy be scrapped, and that the ongoing repression, which organizations such as Movimento Estudiantil Chicano/a de Aztl