Felipe Villamayor, an advanced student at the Faculty of Information and Communication of the University of the Republic, was prohibited from entering the university campus while they investigate his alleged verbal attacks on teachers.
As reported The Observerin an article published in the digital magazine A Contrapelo, Villamayor gives six reasons why he was disenchanted with the academic proposal he took —or at least tries to warn his readers what they should know before enrolling in that degree— he labels some professors that “they are a posh” and questions “three feminists at all costs, the three are ugly vomit.”
But the student clarified: “It is true that I have a coarse aesthetic proposal, but I am not a terrorist.”
Villamayor denies that he violently interrupted a class to promote his publications in the digital magazine. He says that he did not even attack or scold the teachers, “except for disqualifications in the article” that he justifies by his proposal of “journalism under in which what many think but do not dare to say is said”.
The Council of the Faculty of Information and Communication had determined —according to the dean unanimously, according to Villamayor only by seven votes— the prohibition of the student’s admission to the institution for at least the “four or six” months that the investigation lasts in its against.
“This exceptional measure —the first of its kind in the Faculty that Dean Gladys Ceretta remembers— came more than a year after successive attempts to talk with the student to understand what motivates his attacks and after the request of teachers who really They are scared,” he explained to The Observer Ceretta.
Villamayor says that he was only quoted twice and that once someone called him to intimidate him to download the controversial article from his digital magazine, but “it was an effeminate, queer voice” that did not intimidate him.
—Isn’t saying that the voice was “girly and queer” insulting?
— It may be offensive, but that is what the magazine’s proposal consists of under. I don’t want to become a promise of journalism. I write what I feel. I don’t take care of myself in that sense.
As part of his strategy to promote the article, says the young man, in February 2022 he turned on two computers in the FIC library and put the link to the article on the home page.
“On March 31 (of this 2023) I entered a semi-empty room, the class was over. And in six or seven banks I printed the article and a QR code” that directed the digital return visit, he says. “Nothing happened, nobody saw it (in fact, it shows screenshots of WhatsApp conversations about the little impact of this promotional strategy) and I did not attack anyone.”
Villamayor, who clarifies that he was never asked to contact a psychologist, reiterates that he is not a terrorist and that “there are cameras available: if he had attacked, he would be in prison.”
—Why do you think you are being banned from the FIC?
—There is cruelty towards my figure and my article. It’s all an exaggeration. The resolution is not covered by any regulations. They want to curtail my freedom of expression.
