Tournament: ASU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Kent Denver SL | Judge: Tejas Dharmaraj

1AC (5:52)

(0:47) Universities have become corporatized functioning as collective assemblies of research havens that are changed depending on their funders, hijacked by different industries and complexes, these bonds function to minimize and destroy any active efforts to effectuate change within the real world

Julia C. Oparah 14. The Neoliberal University and the Prison-Industrial Complex. Found in The Imperial University- Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent. Edited by Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 2014.
On the other hand, there are dangerous complicities implicit in our attempts to carve
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"haves" and "have nots" of the new knowledge economy.

(1:55) The Prison Industrial Complex has entered into the university in four unique ways, financing, workforce training, data mining, and knowledge production. Making academia a key component in the sustained proliferation of penal expansion

Julia C. Oparah 14. The Neoliberal University and the Prison-Industrial Complex. Found in The Imperial University- Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent. Edited by Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 2014.
Whereas public schools have been absorbed into the prison-industrial complex as a producer
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have swelled prison populations and targeted low-income communities of color.44

(0:35) These prisons becomes sites of social death for marginalized and repressed bodies, engendering violence and political suppression

Sharman 14 (Samantha, phd in gender studies, destabilizing the prison industrial complex: necropolitics, biopolitics and the reproduction of sovereignty, university of Arizona, http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/bitstream/10150/321955/1/azu_etd_mr_2014_0202_sip1_m.pdf, LB)
Prisons are not death factories—they are not Nazi camps or even necessarily way
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cultural project which produces socially dead subjects—bodies of the living dead.

(0:50) Protests are crucial and have been done prior to decouple academia from the corporation

Giroux 2 (Henry A. Giroux, "Neoliberalism, Corporate Culture, and the Promise of Higher Education", 2002, published by President and Fellows of Harvard College, https://geoggingclub.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/2002-giroux-neoliberalism-corporate-culture-and-the-promise-of-higher-education.pdf** )
Educators and students need to join with community people and social movements around a common
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... for the shape and function of the university curricula today. "120

(1:00) In response to the protests of the 90's there has been a proliferation speech zones and tactics as an active countermeasure to protected speech and destroy the ability to protest within universities and realize change

Elmer 8 (Greg Elmer, associate professor of communication and culture at Ryerson University, PhD in communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, director of the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University, Andy Opel, associate professor of communication at Florida State University, PhD in mass communication from the University of North Carolina, member of the International Communication Association, November 2008, "Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future," pages 29-41)
SHORTLY AFTER THE LARGE-SCALE PROTESTS against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in
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political compliance as it is a technique for reducing actual risks and dangers.

(0:05) Thus I advocate that public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech

(1:29) Through this we are able to actively embrace an abolitionary lens to the Prison Industrial Complex, unhampered by counter tactics, we can protest and challenge the corporatized nature of the university and effectively abolish the PIC

Julia C. Oparah 14. The Neoliberal University and the Prison-Industrial Complex. Found in The Imperial University- Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent. Edited by Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 2014.
In my earlier work on the academic-prison-industrial complex, I suggested
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faculty? These are the possibilities opened up by academic-MPIC abolition.

Challenging institutional racism is a prior ethical question— it makes violence structurally inevitable and foundationally negates morality making their utilitarianism arguments incoherent.

Albert Memmi 2k, Professor Emeritus of Sociology @ U of Paris, Naiteire, Racism, Translated by Steve Martinot, p. 163-165
The struggle against racism will be long, difficult, without intermission, without remission
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. True, it is a wager, but the stakes are irresistible.