Free Speech for Some Week in Higher Education

MIKE LACHANCE APR 29, 2017 8:30 AM

It’s becoming clear that some free speech on campus isn’t acceptable.

• College Republicans at Hood College Threatened Over Conservative Display
• University Bans Pro-Life Display Because it Creates Unsafe Environment

While other forms of free speech are just fine.

• Islamist Activist Linda Sarsour to Give Commencement Speech at CUNY
• U. Alaska Displays Prof’s Art Depicting Trump’s Severed Head

The Ann Coulter story is another great example.

• Ann Coulter Speech Cancelled at Berkeley Over Safety Concerns
• College Republicans Now Suing Berkeley Over Ann Coulter Speech
• Bernie Sanders Defends Ann Coulter’s Right to Free Speech

No it isn’t.

• Chancellor Claims UC Berkeley is Under Attack from Both Sides

Compare and contrast.

• NYU Prof Defends ‘Snowflake’ Hostility to Free Speech
• Column: Public Universities That Indulge Student Mobs Should Face Penalties

Can you spot the real racism?

• Oxford University: Failing to Make Eye Contact With Others Might be Racist
• Donors Flee Drexel U. Over Prof Who Wished for White Genocide
• Pomona College Students: Hiring White Prof an ‘Egregious’ Offense

In this case, symbolic means not real.

• Yale Students Engage in Symbolic Hunger Strike for Collective Bargaining

Studying the student body.

• Columbia Spending $2.5 Million to Study the Sex Lives of Students

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