Battle for Free Speech Week in Higher Education

MIKE LACHANCE JAN 13, 2018 7:30 AM

Academia is one of the places where you would think free speech would be held as sacred. Sadly, it isn’t.

• UMass Gets Sued for Limiting Free Speech to an Hour a Day
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Threatens to Charge Student Protesters With Hate Speech
• Bill Would Force University of Nebraska to Guarantee Campus Free Speech

This claim is laughable.

• Professor Claims Social Justice Warriors are True Defenders of Free Speech

This type of garbage doesn’t help.

• Entire Class at Columbia Punished for ‘Microaggressive’ Comments

College Republicans had an interesting week.

• Antifa Leader Ordered by Judge to Pay $11,000 to College Republicans Leader
• College Republicans at San Diego State Single Out Profs They Say Indoctrinate Students

What’s happening at Harvard?

• New Women’s Studies Course at Harvard Will Teach ‘New Models of Sexuality’
• Harvard Sorority Goes Gender Neutral After Ban on Single Sex Clubs

Trump on campus.

• Columbia Course Examines the ‘Persistent Racism’ of ‘Trumpism’
• U. Michigan Leader Exposed for Anti-Trump Emails Considered for Harvard President

Good for them.

• Conservative Students Blast Keith Ellison for Embracing Antifa

It’s not coming down.

• Progressives Still Pushing for Removal of Columbus Mural at Notre Dame

Hmm…

• Investigation of Jane Sanders and the Demise of Burlington College Continues

You don’t say.

• Prof Discovers Mandatory Diversity Course not Effective

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