tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101662442012-02-16T11:08:57.280-07:00The colleges and universities listed here have restricted self-expression in violation of the First Amendment or have punished students or faculty without affording them due process. Those who reject the police state and the slave mentality would be well-advised to avoid these schools.Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.comBlogger651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-4750272013526929752009-04-08T19:17:00.006-07:002009-05-23T05:33:21.636-07:00

Before attending the University of Delaware -- or any school, really -- students should practice their civil disobedience skills and be prepared to tell peers, upperclassmen, advisors, and instructors to go to hell. Manipulators are everywhere, so beware. Show them no mercy when you find them. Ridicule them loudly and consistently.FIRE intercedes at the University of DelawareUpdate 05/23/09:

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-48861949943324567402009-01-27T05:28:00.008-07:002009-05-08T10:10:44.398-07:00

SpotlightSouthern Illinois University at Carbondale is a school from Hell. When they reluctantly dismantled their unconstitutional free speech zone, an area between two parking lots, they denied that it was a problem and claimed that they saw nothing wrong with it. The school chancellor then attacked FIRE, the organization that finally convinced them to change their behavior.SIUC's

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-34162543740122727462008-11-05T22:38:00.010-07:002008-11-06T01:18:25.926-07:00

SpotlightOne look at the case materials, blog entries, and media coverage on FIRE's site is more than enough to convince any student to steer clear of the University of Delaware, no matter what the current promises and reforms might be. If ever there was a school that needed the L. Neil Smith Prescription for Public Education, the University of Delaware is it.Prescription for Public Educationby

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-553609766989340132008-10-21T11:21:00.004-07:002008-10-21T15:59:40.168-07:00

The mere mention of a gun on an amusing flyer was sufficient for the school administration to surrender their ability to think rationally and use logic and common sense. Instead, word association and hyperventilation quickly ensued, and the administration completely lost its mind. The flyers were banned in a fit of hysterical censorship, and the student group that issued them was threatened

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-55902808196165225632008-07-08T15:59:00.007-07:002008-11-06T01:06:54.679-07:00

Not content with having shot itself in the foot, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis took careful aim and shot itself in the head. This used to be a good school; now it wouldn't even make a good parking lot.Two months ago, in the face of withering public criticism, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) revoked its original finding that student-employee

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-33633834157433349262008-05-20T23:43:00.000-07:002008-05-20T23:44:36.708-07:00

Chainsaw Etiquette at Colorado College

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-44101451212688003692008-05-07T14:34:00.002-07:002008-05-07T14:45:30.657-07:00

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa., May 6, 2008—A complaint filed in federal court today by attorneys from the Alliance Defense Fund alleges that Shippensburg University has dishonestly reinstituted unconstitutional policies in violation of the terms of a 2004 legal settlement reached with members of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s (FIRE’s) Legal Network."Shippensburg’s inexplicable violation

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-40198844662702651502008-02-04T13:58:00.000-07:002008-02-04T14:38:32.795-07:00

Writing to the school newspaper has landed more than one Louisiana State University student in trouble.Full storyFull story

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-71221331549035263382008-01-23T15:53:00.000-07:002008-02-11T16:01:40.390-07:00

Brandeis University declared a professor guilty of racial harassment and placed a monitor in his classes after he criticized the use of the word "wetbacks" in his Latin American Politics course.Professor Donald Hindley, a nearly 50-year veteran of teaching, has neither been granted a formal hearing by Brandeis nor provided with the substance of the accusations against him in writing. Hindley has

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-31958978338947752772007-10-11T00:58:00.001-07:002008-11-06T01:10:48.277-07:00

SpotlightHamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, has suspended a student who suggested that the Virginia Tech massacre might have been stopped if students had been allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus. Student Troy Scheffler was suspended without due process two days after e-mailing his suggestion and is now required to undergo "mental health evaluation" before being allowed to return

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-58779531026243737882007-05-07T10:04:00.002-07:002008-08-18T10:41:31.373-07:00

What can one expect from a university whose president, Ronald M. Zaccari, expelled a student (T. Hayden Barnes, a paramedic) for criticizing the construction of two parking garages and who then claims his life is threatened to such a degree that he needs a bodyguard? Many university employees were sound asleep when this lunatic was put on the university payroll. The lunatic has retired, but how

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-13836975265742462392007-02-08T05:18:00.003-07:002008-03-07T06:16:47.652-07:00

In a profound display of disrespect for free speech, San Francisco State University (SFSU) is investigating its College Republicans for hosting an anti-terrorism rally on campus on October 17, 2006, in which participants stepped on makeshift Hezbollah and Hamas flags. After students filed a complaint claiming they were offended because the flags bore the word "Allah," SFSU initiated an

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-38580641092391650262006-11-30T11:39:00.002-07:002008-08-19T21:44:36.144-07:00

This one is so outrageous that you might find yourself inviting the university president to celebrate "Halloween in the Hood" with you and your homies every year. Justin Park, an 18-year-old junior, put a Halloween party invitation on Facebook.com and was then suspended from the university and banned from campus until January 2008, was required to complete 300 hours of community service; and had

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1121741866336048802005-04-26T23:57:00.000-07:002007-06-18T11:17:54.993-07:00

The Albertson College Student Handbook’s harassment policy states that “[a]ny comments or conduct relating to a person’s race, gender, religion, disability, age or ethnic background that fail to respect the dignity and feelings of the individual are unacceptable.” The Handbook also provides that “[a]ll inappropriate behaviors may not be specifically covered in the misconduct definitions, and

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105765858865309692005-04-26T23:55:00.000-07:002007-06-18T11:23:43.668-07:00

American University has punished an undergraduate student journalist for videotaping a public speech by Tipper Gore.Full story: http://thefire.org/index.php/case/35.htmlContacts:Benjamin Ladner, President: 202-885-2121; president@american.eduFaith C. Leonard, Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students: 202-885-3300; fleonar@american.eduKatsura Kurita, Director of Judicial Affairs and Mediation

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1128548739157904832005-03-28T23:50:00.000-07:002007-06-18T11:24:28.468-07:00

SpotlightArizona State University (ASU), responding to serious concerns raised by FIRE President Alan Charles Kors, will eliminate a racial restriction on enrollment for a "First-Year Seminar" in history. ASU's deputy general counsel, Mary C. Stevens, has assured FIRE that ASU would immediately remove the limitation from the 2002 course catalog.Full story: http://www.thefire.org/index.php/case/37

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105766043228421452005-03-28T23:45:00.000-07:002007-06-18T11:26:03.627-07:00

In an abuse of power incompatible with the minimal standards of due process and academic freedom, Bennington President Elizabeth Coleman fired Philosophy Professor Carlin Romano without so much as a hearing.Full story: http://thefire.org/index.php/article/142.html

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105766510471504942005-03-28T23:35:00.000-07:002007-06-18T11:28:01.602-07:00

Brandeis convicted student David Schaer in an unfair proceeding (one that violated the University's own disciplinary procedures) of engaging in unwanted sexual activity with a female student and thereby creating a "hostile environment" for his accuser.Full story: http://thefire.org/index.php/case/59.html

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1126235143372411862005-03-28T23:30:00.000-07:002007-06-18T11:29:31.029-07:00

SpotlightIn a direct attack on academic freedom and free speech, the Brooklyn College School of Education (Brooklyn, NY) is seeking to silence one of its most prominent critics, history professor KC Johnson. After publicly criticizing perceived indoctrination and viewpoint discrimination by members of the Brooklyn College faculty, Johnson is facing a possible investigation by a Brooklyn College "

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105767158904192432005-03-28T23:25:00.000-07:002007-06-18T11:30:46.398-07:00

On October 23, the trustees of the City University of New York (CUNY) voted to condemn a faculty "teach-in" as seditious. On October 2, in order to provide a forum for discussion on the terrorist attacks, professors at CUNY held the "teach-in" at which several professors criticized America and its foreign policy. CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein issued a public statement condemning the

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105767573564937282005-03-28T23:15:00.000-07:002007-06-18T11:31:53.070-07:00

At the College of the Holy Cross, in Massachusetts, the chair of the department of sociology, Professor Royce Singleton, demanded that a secretary remove an American flag that she had hung in the departmental office. The flag was in memory of her friend Todd Beamer, who fought and died on the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 over Pennsylvania. When she refused, Singleton removed it himself.

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105853435115506252005-03-28T23:05:00.000-07:002007-06-18T18:54:21.234-07:00

A student group at the College of William & Mary (W&M), whose "affirmative action bake sale" protest had been unlawfully censored by administrators in November 2003, proceeded successfully with an identical protest on January 27, 2004—this time without administrative interference. W&M's president, however, still refuses to admit wrongdoing in stopping the first protest, claiming that the group

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105768155846884372005-03-28T22:55:00.000-07:002007-06-18T18:55:11.372-07:00

Sexual misconduct policy violates due process rights.Full story: http://thefire.org/index.php/case/45.htmlContacts:George Rupp, President of Columbia University: (212) 854-2825; rupp@columbia.eduMisumbo Byrd, Columbia Office of Sexual Misconduct: (212) 854-1717; mb2068@columbia.eduLee Bollinger, President-Elect of Columbia University: (734) 764-6270; leecbol@umich.edu

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105765285953429662005-03-28T22:45:00.000-07:002007-06-18T18:56:16.853-07:00

Columbia University has been debating charges of anti-Semitism that have been leveled against professors in the university’s department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures.Full story: http://thefire.org/index.php/case/662.htmlContact: Lee Bollinger, President, Columbia University: 212-854-9970; bollinger@columbia.edu

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1117254850730616322005-03-28T22:40:00.000-07:002007-06-18T18:56:49.693-07:00

DePaul University administrators have suspended Professor Thomas Klocek without a hearing after he engaged in an out-of-class argument with pro-Palestinian students at a student activities fair. When the students complained to administrators, Klocek was denied the rights that DePaul guarantees to professors accused of wrongdoing and immediately suspended. Statements from DePaul administrators

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105768312389195522005-03-28T22:35:00.000-07:002007-06-18T18:57:26.523-07:00

At Duke University, the administration shut down a website after Professor Gary Hull posted an article entitled "Terrorism and Its Appeasement" that called for a strong military response to the terrorist attacks.Full story: http://thefire.org/index.php/case/49.html

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105768515376256092005-03-28T22:25:00.000-07:002007-06-18T18:58:12.098-07:00

Forsyth Technical Community College writing instructor Elizabeth Ito has been dismissed for criticizing the war in Iraq during a writing class.Full story: http://thefire.org/index.php/case/650.htmlContacts:Gary M. Green, President: 336-734-7201; ggreen@forsyth.cc.nc.usCynthia A. Bioteau, Vice President, Instructional Services: 336-734-7203; cbioteau@forsyth.cc.nc.usJohn R. Slade, Jr., Dean, Arts

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105768850755418392005-03-28T22:15:00.000-07:002007-06-18T18:59:28.606-07:00

At the George Washington University (GW), despite widespread public criticism, the administration has yet to dismantle a "Compliance Line" that receives anonymous allegations against students and professors and allows GW officials to conduct secret investigations.Full story: http://thefire.org/index.php/case/38.htmlContacts:Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, President, George Washington University: 202-

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105769603175729562005-03-28T22:05:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:00:06.869-07:00

Gonzaga University's president, Father Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., has permitted the School of Law's Student Bar Association (SBA) to refuse to recognize a Christian student organization. According to the SBA, the Gonzaga Pro-Life Law Caucus's requirement that its leadership be Christian is "discriminatory."It now has come to light that yet another Christian group, the Christian Legal Society, also

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1119590636079589592005-03-28T22:02:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:01:22.853-07:00

On April 10, 2003, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld freedom of the press at Governors State University (GSU), in University Park, Illinois. FIRE had joined an amicus brief submitted by the Student Press Law Center urging the Court to vindicate the basic first amendment rights of college students. Judge Terence T. Evans, who wrote the decision, called this brief "superb."

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1114564977188507922005-03-28T22:00:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:02:07.812-07:00

Grand Valley State University in Michigan was proceeding with plans to try its College Republicans on “discrimination” charges related to their bake sale protest against affirmative action. “Affirmative action bake sales” constitute a form of satirical political protest that enjoys the fullest protection of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. At GVSU, complaining students charged the

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105769900278035912005-03-28T21:55:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:03:41.632-07:00

A Harvard graduate student has been barred from continuing his studies because a fellow student accused him of sexual assault in January of 2002. The student was acquitted on all six counts of rape and assault by Middlesex Superior Court last August and his accuser was shown to be fabricating parts of her story at the trial. Despite this, Harvard has not readmitted him and has not dropped its own

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105770192640216182005-03-28T21:45:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:04:14.156-07:00

A philosophy professor who was punished for disclosing his religious viewpoint to students has filed suit against Lakeland Community College in Ohio. Professor James Tuttle was disciplined by the administration and later stripped of his classes for making statements on his syllabi and in class lectures that referenced his religious faith and how it shaped his personal philosophy.Full story: http:

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1108885388338905222005-03-28T21:35:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:04:54.278-07:00

New York’s Le Moyne College, which claims to protect academic freedom, has dismissed a master’s student from its graduate education program based on his personal beliefs. After the student wrote a paper advocating strict discipline in the classroom, the chair of Le Moyne’s education department expelled the student because of a “mismatch” between his beliefs and the goals of the college’s graduate

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105770400552956852005-03-28T21:25:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:09:12.462-07:00

Macomb Community College censored a professor’s classroom speech.More: http://thefire.org/index.php/case/50.html

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105770636972509092005-03-28T21:20:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:10:07.973-07:00

Occidental College in Los Angeles unjustly punished a student DJ for “sexual harassment” for on-air jokes, and then used the controversy as an excuse to dissolve the student government.Full story: http://thefire.org/index.php/case/647.htmlUpdate: Former Occidental College student Jason Antebi (represented by the law firm of Sherman & Nathanson) filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105771044845718472005-03-28T21:15:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:10:49.455-07:00

Spotlight 1. Professor Lisa Church was forced to submit to disciplinary hearings for refusing to punish constitutionally protected student speech.Full story: http://thefire.org/index.php/case/660.html2. Rhode Island College’s School of Social Work is requiring a conservative master’s student to publicly advocate for "progressive" social changes if he wants to continue pursuing a degree in social

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1121742441346276352005-03-28T21:13:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:11:30.053-07:00

The Rhodes College Policy on Discrimination and Harassment states that “freedom of expression does not include the right to intentionally and maliciously aggravate, intimidate, ridicule or humiliate another person.”Full story: http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/5792.html

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105771270556113522005-03-28T21:05:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:12:14.725-07:00

At San Diego State University, an international student, Zewdalem Kebede, overheard several other students, speaking loudly in Arabic, express delight about the terrorist attacks. Kebede engaged the students and, in Arabic, challenged their positions. Kebede was accused by San Diego State University of abusive behavior toward the four students. A University judicial officer formally admonished

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105771503567000832005-03-28T20:55:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:12:59.037-07:00

At Shaw University during fall 2002, Gale Isaacs, long-time professor and chair of the Allied Health Department, was fired for co-authoring a faculty resolution that criticized the University’s president and Board of Trustees.Full story: http://thefire.org/index.php/case/28.htmlContacts:Talbert O. Shaw, President, Shaw University: 919-546-8302; toshaw@shawu.eduVaughan Witten, Vice President for

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105843932722851452005-03-28T20:45:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:13:53.090-07:00

Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU), a public institution bound by the First Amendment, is investigating the faculty advisor and student editor of its campus newspaper, The Standard, for publishing an editorial cartoon that a Native American group found "offensive." SMSU has refused to rule out a formal hearing on the matter, has requested that Standard faculty advisor Professor Wanda

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105844243176557252005-03-28T20:35:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:14:35.127-07:00

A federal appeals court in Pennsylvania ruled that the speech and expression provisions of State College Area School District's harassment policy violate the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.Full story: http://www.thefire.org/index.php/case/64.html

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105844412168264002005-03-28T20:25:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:15:23.754-07:00

A federal judge has struck down "free-speech zones" at Texas Tech University, ruling unconstitutional a requirement that students who wish to give speeches must stay within a designated area.Full story: http://www.thefire.org/index.php/case/9.html

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105845294722644852005-03-28T20:15:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:16:13.253-07:00

Campus administrators, wearing their social engineers' hats, adopt a profoundly more problematic role when instead of trying to persuade students voluntarily to look at life in accordance with the university's official social ideology, they assign themselves the coercive power to punish words on the administration's list of disfavored expression. Such arrogation of the powers of censorship is

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105846425619333432005-03-28T20:05:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:18:15.402-07:00

Spotlight1. In a scandal that should trouble every friend of liberty, the Faculty Senate of the University of Alabama has threatened the First Amendment rights both of free speech and of petitioning the government for the redress of grievances.Full story: http://www.thefire.org/index.php/case/653.htmlContacts:Andrew A. Sorensen, President, University of Alabama: 205-348-5103; sorensen@

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105845961466066882005-03-28T19:55:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:19:11.154-07:00

Spotlight1. Christopher Brown submitted the thesis to the library with a preface that he called "Disacknowledgments." The librarians at UCSB (themselves subject to criticism in the Disacknowledgments) informed the school that Brown's preface contained unflattering, vulgar, and offensive remarks directed at the school. Upon the administration's discovering this, Brown was told he would not be

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105847241134945172005-03-28T19:45:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:20:34.918-07:00

SpotlightCarlos Martinez was a successful student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, only months from graduation, until he made the mistake of yelling at the wrong people in the Office of the Bursar. He was placed on probation and ordered both to write a letter of apology and to attend an anger management class. Carlos balked at signing a letter with language mandated by the Office of

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105847446445029122005-03-28T19:35:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:21:22.964-07:00

Spotlight1. The University of Massachusetts granted a permit for a student rally to protest any use of force in waging the war against terrorism. The protest was held. Another student group reserved the same place to hold a rally in support of America's policy towards terrorism, but two days before the rally, their permit was revoked. Students held the rally anyway, and their pamphlets were

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105847930885993272005-03-28T19:25:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:22:28.216-07:00

SpotlightUniversity of Miami (UM) President Donna Shalala has permitted an official UM agent to deny recognition of a student organization that seeks to advance conservative philosophical ideas. UM takes the position that the campus chapter of the College Republicans speaks for all “conservatives.”Full story: http://www.thefire.org/index.php/case/17.htmlContact:Donna E. Shalala, President: 305-

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1125015731686929382005-03-28T19:18:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:23:25.433-07:00

SpotlightThe Residence Hall Handbook at the University of Nevada at Reno prohibits the following behaviors:"Lack of civility, any behavior or action, physical or verbal, that is meant to devalue, demean, or incite an individual or group, directly or implied, is prohibited.""Verbal abuse, including offensive language and derogatory group identity slurs (including but not limited to: race, sexual

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105848830788444102005-03-28T19:15:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:25:04.183-07:00

SpotlightUniversity of New Hampshire (UNH) freshman Timothy Garneau posted the flier (above) in the elevators of the Stoke Hall dormitory on September 3, in an effort to make light of the common frustration with students delaying the elevator by taking it for just one or two floors instead of taking the stairs. The hastily produced fliers, which were loosely based on an advertising flier posted

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105849865039317922005-03-28T19:05:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:25:42.752-07:00

SpotlightUniversity of New Mexico Professor Richard Berthold addressed the terrorist attacks in his morning class on Western Civilization, remarking, "Anyone who can bomb the Pentagon has my vote." He apologized for the statement, claiming that it was stupidly intended to be a joke. Although this state university is bound by the U.S. Constitution, its president, William C. Gordon, announced that

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105850297664625442005-03-28T18:55:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:26:45.318-07:00

SpotlightFor the second time in two years, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has derecognized a Christian student organization. According to UNC, a Christian organization seeking to have Christian members is “discriminatory” and cannot have access to campus facilities, services, or programs. UNC's actions are a violation of student rights to free speech, free exercise of

Mark Yannonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166244.post-1105846252864781992005-03-28T18:45:00.000-07:002007-06-18T19:28:44.121-07:00

SpotlightAt the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, administrators intimidated by a would-be censor shamelessly abandoned their moral and legal obligations to protect freedom of speech and privacy rights on their campus.Full story: http://www.thefire.org/index.php/case/634.htmlContacts:James Leutze, Chancellor of UNC-W: 910-962-3030; leutzej@uncwil.eduHarold M. White, University Counsel,

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SpotlightThe University of Oklahoma (UO) has gone to a new low in its efforts to silence Professor David Deming, a frequent critic of administrative policy and a politically outspoken faculty member. UO removed him from his department and moved his office to the basement--all the while claiming to respect the principles of academic freedom.Full story: http://www.thefire.org/index.php/case/658.

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SpotlightThe University of South Carolina, in the "Guidelines for Classroom Discussion" of a required course in a degree-granting program, demands allegiance to a narrow set of partisan political beliefs—on pain of being graded poorly for honest disagreement.Full story: http://www.thefire.org/index.php/case/34.htmlContacts:John M. Palms, President, University of South Carolina: 803-777-2001;

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SpotlightThe University of South Florida (USF) dismissed a tenured professor on the grounds that outside criticism of his views had created too much of a “disruption” to uphold what USF itself explicitly termed constitutionally “protected speech.”Full story: http://www.thefire.org/index.php/case/27.htmlContacts:Judy Genshaft, President, USF: 813-974-2791; jgensha@admin.usf.eduS. David Stamps,

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Spotlight1. EAU CLAIRE, Wis., April 27, 2005—The University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (UWEC) Student Senate has amended its rules to forbid any student-organized activity that promotes a “particular ideological, religious, or partisan viewpoint” from receiving student-fee funding. This new policy directly contradicts the university’s First Amendment obligation to distribute student funds regardless

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SpotlightWashington State University has shamefully distorted the First Amendment by supporting disruptive heckling and threats at a controversial student play. The university paid for the hecklers to attend the play, helped plan the heckling, and later defended their threats and disruptions as a “responsible” exercise of free speech.Full story: http://www.thefire.org/index.php/case/683.htmlThis

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SpotlightWest Virginia University recognizes the right of individuals to pursue their constitutional right of free speech and assembly, and welcomes open dialogue as an opportunity to expand the educational opportunities of our campus community. Individuals or organizations may utilize designated free speech areas on a first-come, first-served basis without making reservations.Full story: http://

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SpotlightWAYNE, NJ, July 20, 2005—William Paterson University in New Jersey has convicted a student employee of "discrimination" and "harassment"—without due process—for describing homosexuality as a "perversion" in a private response to a professor's unsolicited announcement of a university event that promoted a positive view of lesbian relationships.Full story: http://www.thefire.org/index.php/

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SpotlightWilliams College informed its student groups that the college's statement of non-discrimination requirements applied to the activities of voluntary student associations. Such a move would have denied the right to freedom of association promised by the college in its publications.Full story: http://www.thefire.org/index.php/case/646.html

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SpotlightViolating not only the spirit, but even the letter of Yale's policies on free speech, officials removed a political banner about the September 11 terrorist attacks. Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg implied that sanctions could follow.Full story: http://www.thefire.org/index.php/case/44.html

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