Free Speech Tag

Fear of Offending Others is Chilling Free Speech on College Campuses

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 02, 2019 2 Comments

"University censorship regimes are teaching some students not only to live with but to embrace the conformism of thought"...

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U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sued Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Free Speech Policies

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 01, 2019 1 Comment

"Students deserve to be able to express themselves and voice their opinions without fear of investigation or punishment"...

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University Accused of Enforcing Free Speech Rules for Conservatives but not Socialists

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 29, 2019 4 Comments

"The private university has a single “free speech zone,” and students must fill out paperwork and get approval before using it."...

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Ted Cruz Says Congress Should Not Fund Colleges That Don’t Support Free Speech

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 25, 2019 5 Comments

"we ought to include within the Higher Education Authorization Act a restriction on federal funds"...

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Survey: 41 Percent of College Students Don’t Believe ‘Hate Speech’ Should be Protected

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 23, 2019 6 Comments

"Over half of college students agree that shouting speakers down is 'always' or 'sometimes' acceptable."...

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Administration at Williams College Goes Around Student Government to Recognize Pro-Israel Group

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 17, 2019 10 Comments

A pro-Israel student group at Williams College called 'Williams Initiative for Israel' or WIFI, has struggled to gain recognition on campus. Until now. The student government at the Massachusetts school blocked WIFI, but the administration went around them in order to provide recognition for them.

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DePaul University Faculty Condemns Professor Who Expressed Support for Israel

Posted by Mary Chastain on May 02, 2019 17 Comments

The Faculty Council at DePaul University passed a resolution condemning professor of philosophy Jason Hill after he wrote an article in The Federalist in support of Israel and condemned Hamas. Hill wrote that "Israel has the moral right to annex all of the West Bank (even Area C) for a plethora of reasons." The article offended Muslim students and some faculty, which caused protests and a demand for censure.

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Oklahoma Governor Signs Bill Banning ‘Free Speech Zones’ From Public Campuses

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 01, 2019 2 Comments

"Any person who wishes to engage in noncommercial expressive activity on campus shall be permitted to do so freely"...

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New ‘Common Language Guide’ Divides Students at Amherst College

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 28, 2019 5 Comments

“It wasn’t the college’s place to tell us what these things meant”...

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Middlebury College Student Govt Demands Students be Able to Approve Campus Speakers

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 27, 2019 36 Comments

Middlebury College in Vermont has a recurring problem. When conservative speakers come to campus, all hell breaks loose. Now the student government has proposed a solution. They want the right to vet speakers before they come to campus in order to assure that the speaker's values match those of the campus community.

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Student Activists Outraged as Williams College Tries to Adopt Pro-Free Speech Policy

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 25, 2019 26 Comments

Williams College in Massachusetts is trying to embrace the free speech policy put forth by the University of Chicago. It's a widely respected position on the issue which has even been endorsed by FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education).

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Shutuppery Liberals Level ‘Incitement’ Allegations to Silence Conservatives

Posted by Stacey Matthews on April 20, 2019 43 Comments

Democrats desperately want people to believe that Republicans are criticizing them in order to deliberately put them in harm's way.  If they can get enough people to believe this, they can simply silence all dissenting opinion as "incitement."

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Socialist Students at U. Buffalo Oppose Speech by ‘War Criminal’ Condoleezza Rice

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 19, 2019 3 Comments

"personally approved the CIA’s use of waterboarding on prisoners"...

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Anti-Israel activists shout down legal scholar’s lecture on legality of anti-BDS laws

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2019 17 Comments

Eugene Kontorovich is a brilliant legal scholar formerly with Northwestern University Law School, who recently joined George Mason University's Scalia School of Law. Kontorovich's expertise includes international law, as well as free speech. His lecture The Legal Case for Israel is a must watch video.

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Masked Protester Throws Liquid Substance at Conservative Speaker at UMKC

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 13, 2019 18 Comments

Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire gave a speech at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) this week. Student protesters turned the event into a circus, and a masked figure even attempted to throw liquid, initially believed to be bleach, onto Knowles and was arrested.

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FIRE Releases Statement About U. Arizona Students Charged for Harassing Border Patrol Agents

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 03, 2019 8 Comments

"guiding principles should be restated"...

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Berkeley Law School Dean Says Trump’s Free Speech Executive Order is Unconstitutional

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 02, 2019 10 Comments

"order is so vague and ambiguous, it makes compliance by colleges and universities extremely difficult"...

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U. Arizona Students to be Charged After Disrupting Border Patrol Event With Shouts of “Murder Patrol”

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 31, 2019 17 Comments

Last week, two border patrol agents were speaking to a small group of students at the University of Arizona when the event was interrupted by a student calling them the KKK and "murder patrol." She was eventually joined by other students, and now they're facing charges.

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