FIRE President Details Chilling New Federal Campus Speech Codes
May 17, 2013 by Glenn Ricketts |
Greg Lukianoff describes the numbing censorship imposed by the new federal guidelines.
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FIRE Press Release Scores Federal Speech Code Standards
May 10, 2013 by Glenn Ricketts |
The Department of Justice embraces OCR's censorious harassment code.
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Let’s Talk About Free Speech on Campus
Apr 25, 2013 by Glenn Ricketts |
FIRE's Greg Lukianoff and Bob Shibley urge us to defend freedom of speech on college campuses, where it' s very much endangered.
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Eastern Michigan University Settles with Expelled Counseling Student Julea Ward
Dec 12, 2012 by Ashley Thorne |
Eastern Michigan University will pay $75,000 to settle a suit brought by Julea Ward, a counseling student the university expelled because of her beliefs about homosexuality.
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Gay Marriage and the Long Arm of Academic “Tolerance”
Oct 11, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
"Tolerance" follows you everywhere, even to church.
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FIRE President Scores Suppression of Free Speech at Auburn
Sep 24, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
Auburn suppresses free speech but there's no outrage. Greg Lukianoff is dismayed.
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Ward Churchill: Still Fired
Sep 13, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
The sacked former ethnic studies professor loses another round.
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One Year Later: OCR Stonewalls Objections to New Harassment Guidelines
Apr 04, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
Despite strong protests from NAS, FIRE and the AAUP, OCR says nothing about its new harassment requirements
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FIRE Lists Rogues’ Gallery of Free Speech Offenders
Mar 28, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
FIRE presents its list of the 12 most repressive campuses for freedom of speech.
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FIRE Notes NJ Anti-Bullying Law Endangers Free Speech On Campus
Feb 01, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
No one should tolerate genuine bullying, but the sensitive enforcers of ambiguous anti-harassment laws often overstep their bounds.
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Aggressive Anti-Bullying Crusade Gathers Steam
Jan 23, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
You can easily imagine how “anti-bullying” policies will likely to play out on college campuses already dominated by the enforcers of sensitivity.
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John Stossel Interviews Illinois Affiliate Head Jonathan Bean
Jan 13, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
The leader of the Illinois Association of Scholars is eloquent on the subject of business & race.
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FIRE Sends Open Letter to OCR on Sexual Harassment, NAS Co-Signs
Jan 06, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
We collaborate with FIRE against OCR guidelines that trivialize sexual harassment with severe results to the careers of those frivolously charged.
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NAS Signs Open Letter Asking OCR to Better Define Sexual Harassment
Jan 06, 2012 by Ashley Thorne |
NAS joins ten other organizations in requesting the Office for Civil Rights to use the Supreme Court's standard in defining student sexual harassment in higher education.
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That Man May Revel in His Freedom of Speech
Jan 05, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
Is the use of inclusive use of the masculine singular pronoun grounds for accusations of sexual harassment? It was at CSU-Chico till FIRE ridiculed them with "Speech Code of the Year."
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