Williams College Students Claim 'Free Speech Harms,' Fight Efforts to Adopt the Chicago Principles
"Students were just screaming that we were trying to 'kill them.'"
"Students were just screaming that we were trying to 'kill them.'"
College campuses, take note.
Protesters said it was "absolutely, unequivocally" not their intention to shut down Legutko. The administration panicked anyway.
The speech had been cosponsored by three faculty-run programs at the College.
Administrator says they "were unable to reach consensus as to what we wanted to achieve with this event," which is pure doublespeak.
"Everyone who has been invited to speak at Harvard in recent memory-has been able to do so."
The Columbia University linguist discusses the Jussie Smollett hoax, Donald Trump, and "antiracism" as a new secular religion.
Columbia linguist John McWhorter on the Jussie Smollett hoax, Donald Trump, and "antiracism" as a new secular religion.
"This is not a terribly effective tactic of persuasion, loudly yelling so students can't hear."
Some students want GMU to #CancelKavanaugh. Some professors want the school to investigate the justice.
In Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, Nicholas Christakis says natural selection "prewires" us for peaceful co-existence.
"A student complains twice in three days that someone posted a cartoon making fun of liberals in a residence hall and it offended her."
In Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, Nicholas Christakis says our common humanity outweighs divisive tribalism.
Biden has arguably failed to live up to the affirmative consent standard he sounded so fond of.
"As a survivor, as a student who comes to this university, and expects to have a good education, to experience a happy, safe place, I am insulted."
"There is simply not enough information...to confirm that the protestors' conduct, taken as a whole, constituted unprotected disruption."
A crude tool unlikely to do much good and that might do some harm.
The president signed an executive order supporting free speech on college campuses.
"It is the policy of the federal government to encourage institutions to foster environments that promote open, intellectually engaging, and diverse debate."
The university "is an inclusive environment and we expect all our staff and visitors to uphold our principles. There is no place here for anyone who cannot."
The coping devices had trivial effects "even for people with a history of trauma."
Joshua Clover has a First Amendment right to say horrible things about the police.
"The College must issue a statement condemning the harm that Abrams has caused to the college community, specifically queer, Black, and female students."
"It's provocative, and that was the intention."
Meet the undergrad who is recovering the legacy of gay, socialist civil-rights activist Bayard Rustin while explicating Kanye West's conservatism.
Universities should be proactive about articulating, defending and protecting the free exchange of ideas on campus
The stupidity of these journals says a lot about what's taught at colleges today.
If universities do not take steps to address their campus free speech problems, politicians will do it for them
An official tells Reason that a draft of the EO targets federal grants to universities and colleges.
Ronald Sullivan's choice of clients is "not only upsetting, but deeply trauma-inducing," according to activist students.
"Encouraging violence"
A clear violation of the First Amendment -- and not even justified under the College's own stated reasons.
The discussion stemmed from a student's reading a sentence in class from James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time.
Augsburg University suspended Phillip Adamo after students complained.
"PCC Public Safety was made aware of a possible planned disruption to tonight's event."
A shortsighted decision that makes little sense.
"Toxic masculinity" is sometimes a scapegoat for the left, but this particular commercial makes no grand anti-male claims.
If the left is going to insist that only the most consistent enemies of bigotry are welcome in their ranks, one might expect some consistency.
"It's hard to avoid the conclusion that if the rules forbid it, it's the rules, not the researchers, that have gone wrong."
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education collects a 13th victory.
Firing Peter Boghossian for failing to get permission from the institutional review board would threaten academic freedom.
Notre Dame student bravely responds, "Give Me Pornhub or Give Me Death."
"I am asking that you or your roommate take the sign down so that all students can be a part of an inclusive residential experience."
The Venus symbol "has a long history of exclusion... represents the erasure of others."