everett piper. delighted to join you. i would suggest the audience should know their speaker. trigger warning. i do not shoot trigger warnings. i don't believe in safe spaces he is not safe but he is good i would argue that the great line of the academy of the university of americans and western universities and colleges. should not be safe but indeed they are good. i don't believe that my feelings are yours are the final measuring rod of what's right or wrong. i actually believe education should be more about facts than feelings feelings lead to fascism and fax lead to freedom. remember the basic fact that jesus told us up. i believe in ideas and i believe in words i believe that when we lose control of our words we lose control of our ideas. when we lose control of the debate we ultimately lose control of our freedom. for example when we dumbed down the definition of words like heat to nothing more than disagreement we make hate meaningless and disagreement dangerous. words matter. ids have consequences and one last word before i get into my lecture life is not about you. ed

everett piper. what i'm at home i have honor of watching massive dogs when he's giving lectures so which is always fun. [laughter] in his 14 year of president of the university, doctor piper become known for passionate defense of intellectual freedom, the advocate tirelessly for time tested truth and religion, education, and politics challenges the intolerance are of today's academic community. at oklahoma west lane he teaches to follow four basic, the jesus christ and pursuit of truth, and racket of wisdom. doctor piper on edss our routinely featured local and national news outlets and he serves as a regular guest on talk radio across the nation and most well known op-ed this is not a day care but a university. has since gone viral and is now basis for his new book. a native of michigan doctor piper and wife marci along with their two sonsset and kobe by served as oklahoma first families since august of 2002. dr. piper actively participates in the community and the west lane church and serves on va

to kick going to kick off this labor day weekend with oklahoma wesley and university president everett piper. they should be pursuing i would like to welcome all of you have joined us here. my name is ian stevens.