Search for Vassar College in Legal Insurrection’s archives, and you’ll find scores of posts documenting Vassar students’ efforts to shut down speech with which they disagree. This is a longstanding problem on today’s college campuses, and it is perhaps most commonly manifested in attacks on Israeli, pro-Israel, and/or Jewish speakers.
Vassar College...
Crimes happen on college campuses all the time, but you don’t hear about armed robbers tying up their victims every day.
The Poughkeepsie Journal reports:
Vassar students bound in armed robbery on campus: College
Vassar College says a group of its students were bound and their campus townhouse was burglarized on Halloween night.
The school...
Students at numerous schools have created a “Disorientation Guide” to be distributed to incoming first-year students to offset official Orientation Guides.
A Disorientation Guide (full copy embedded at bottom of post)(pdf.) was just distributed at Vassar College, and it was loaded with anti-Israel, pro-BDS invective.
Professor Jacobson gave a talk on free speech at Vassar last year which almost didn’t happen because he became the target of a smear campaign. So it’s hardly surprising to hear this coming from a Vassar prof.
The College Fix reports:
Philosophy prof: media, universities should refuse to host unpopular and offensive speakers
A...
My appearance at Vassar College on October 25 to lecture on “hate speech” and free speech continues to reverberate.
For background, see my USA Today Op-Ed: My pro-free speech views made me a target at Vassar College, as well as these posts at Legal Insurrection:
I have an Op-Ed today at USA Today on the campaign by student activists at Vassar College to shut down my lecture on “hate speech” and free speech, based on fabricated claims that my appearance posed a danger to student safety.
You can read these two posts for background:
Professor Jacobson gave a speech on free speech at Vassar College and the left went insane.
He shared the experience...
Healing to Action is the Vassar College student group which organized the incitement against me by making false claims that the campus was in danger by my lecture on “hate speech” and free speech.
The fabricated claims included that I was posting event information on multiple White Nationalist websites in order to...
On Tuesday night, October 31, 2017, I appeared on the Lars Larson radio show to talk about my experience at Vassar College. See these posts for the details:
Here are some of my comments during...
I’m still trying to get my mind around the Vassar College campus reaction to my planned lecture on “hate speech” and free speech, which I wrote about in Safe Spaces and Safety Teams at Vassar College for My Lecture on Free Speech.
Hundreds of students, faculty and staff were whipped into a frenzy...
On October 25, 2017, I gave a speech at Vassar College on “An Examination of Hate Speech and Free Speech on College Campuses.” The main sponsor was the Vassar Conservative Libertarian Union, which also sponsored my 2014 speech at Vassar. Other sponsors were Students for Liberty and the Leadership Institute.
The lecture originally...
We frequently cover issues related to free speech on campus, including shut-downs, shout-downs, disruptions, threats and violence.
There is a long history to this problem, and it first showed itself in attacks on Israeli, pro-Israel and Jewish speakers, as I documented in
Maybe student government should have spent more time on accounting, and less time trying to boycott Israel.
The Miscellany News reports:
VSA debt raises tough questions about budget oversight
Shahid Naeem...
If you didn’t read Legal Insurrection, you might think that liberal arts Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, just north of New York City, is an island of tolerance, understanding and freedom of thought. That’s what its website says.
But since you read Legal Insurrection, you know that for the past several years...
We’ve seen some *impressive* student reactions to the election of Donald Trump.
But the reaction of students at Vassar College appears to be our first “primal scream.”
The student newspaper reported:
By the end of election night, Vassar campus was filled with faces of somber disbelief. Social media outlets were flooded with indignant outcries...
Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, has had an abysmal few years when it comes to anti-Israel and sometimes antisemitic activity. You can scroll through our Vassar Tag for dozens of posts.
Here are a few of those posts that provide an overview:
Late last month, Vassar College students narrowly rejected a proposed Israel-boycott.
Legal Insurrection led the way in exposing anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity at Vassar over the past two years. Key parts of the problem were vocal faculty who were hostile to Israel and favorable towards the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement....
