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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Prof. Landsburg on the Limbaugh/Fluke Controversy
Mar 08, 2012 by George Leef |
Criticizing a bad argument is not "demeaning" a student.
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Orwellian Brooklyn College Seminar Calls Conservatives Reactionary
Feb 16, 2012 by Mitchell Langbert |
Brooklyn College continues to suppress conservatives in word and deed.
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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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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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A Law Professor Takes On the Victimhood Industry
Jan 04, 2012 by Hans Bader |
Hans Bader describes the Byzantine case of law professor Lawrence Connell, who's in big trouble for actually defending himself against preposterous harassment charges.
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Free Speech Zoned Out at Drake University
Dec 21, 2011 by Glenn Ricketts |
Free speech seems to be ever more unpopular on college campuses these days, where it’s increasingly regarded as an unwelcome nuisance. The administration at Drake University have decided that the public expression of individual… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
FIRE Wins Major Free Speech Victory at UW/Stout
Oct 05, 2011 by Glenn Ricketts |
The news about free speech and free expression on college campuses these days is often depressing, but today, there's some good news, thanks to our friends at FIRE who've persuaded the UW/Stout administration to abandon… Continue Reading | 1 Comment >
The First Amendment and UW/Stout
Sep 30, 2011 by Glenn Ricketts |
First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech are really not the thing these days at UW/Stout.
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OCR’s New Sexual Harassment Guidelines Threaten Academic Freedom, Due Process
Sep 28, 2011 by Glenn Ricketts |
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has mandated new guidelines for processing sexual harassment cases on college campuses. Watch out: it's going to be much easier to find you guilty.
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FIRE VP to Freshman Parents: College Ain’t What It Used to Be
Aug 12, 2011 by Glenn Ricketts |
If you're the proud parent of an entering freshman this Fall semester, FIRE Vice President Robert Shibley has some advice that you may not have heard from your school's orientation team leader.
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“O(h no) Canada!” MTV Signature Song Banned
May 09, 2011 by Jonathan Bean |
When I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, the stereotypical bowdlerizers of speech--the people excising "offensive" lyrics and literature--were the uptight blue-nosed sort who feared that "someone, somewhere, was having fun." (H.L.… Continue Reading | 1 Comment >
