This is the case where two students were shouting "nigger" loudly when walking by UConn dorms; the students are trying to block university discipline based on their speech, including their eviction from student housing.
The students say their threatened punishment, for walking near student housing shouting "nigger" (at no-one in particular), violates both the First Amendment and a 1990 consent decree.
Asheen Phansey's was responding to President Trump's threat to bomb Iranian cultural sites.
The policy has earned a well-deserved First Amendment lawsuit.
"The point was to engage students in an otherwise dry and difficult subject material."
So reports the Daily Mail (U.K.).
The investigation was launched after the local police chief complained and reached out to the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
"I think if we decide we’re just going to immediately hair-trigger cancel anything that might make anyone uncomfortable, we’re missing a chance to teach.”
Today's censors are using tech policy and social-media outrage to attack your right to think and say what you believe.
Larry Shue's The Foreigner has KKK villains. Administrators think students can't handle that.
"We must remain—especially now—vigilant to any form of discrimination," said National Louis University in a dumb statement.
Bias incident reports, safety concerns, and harassment charges, all because of a slightly trollish Facebook post.
Progressive activists want the newspaper to stop practicing balanced journalism.
"There is no room in mainstream conservatism or at YAF for holocaust deniers, white nationalists, street brawlers, or racists."
A newspaper staffed by the country's most famous journalism school says it shouldn't have covered a Jeff Sessions event.
Campus conservatism must take the threat of the far right seriously.
"The Undergraduate Council stands in solidarity with the concerns of Act on a Dream, undocumented students, and other marginalized individuals on campus."
"The English Department has a long, well-documented, disturbing history of racism, sexism, transphobia, and other violences."
Same for "Islam is right about women" flyer -- both are labeled "hate-filled flyers" by the University, and apparently the police and the FBI are investigating the distribution of the flyers.
Episode 7 of Free Speech Rules, from UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
Mattress girl's unlikely friendship with Reason folks is the subject of a recent piece for The Cut.
"This idea of purity and you're never compromised, and you're always politically 'woke,' and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly."
The state's hate crimes law—a "rarely enforced relic dating to 1917"—eviscerates free speech.
"Getting both sides isn't always what is fair."
"We are confident that all members of the university community will demonstrate the highest ideals of our university."
The Commission on Human Rights is likely running afoul of the First Amendment.
A new book tries and fails to make a case against freedom of expression.
Conservatives deploy state power to go after speech they don't like.
"Any platform he is provided...creates more space for right-wing extremists to escalate their attacks on our communities."
They worry that letting speech flourish in the rest of the campus will make "students feel unsafe and unwelcome."
Western Illinois University clamps down on student speech.
Right-wing cancel culture comes for Jamie Riley, who dared to criticize the American flag.
... or refer to all students without a title (e.g., by first name or by last name) and not use third-person pronouns to refer to them.
Authorities questioned Ismael Ajjawi for eight hours at Logan Airport. Then they revoked his student visa.
The New York Times columnist emailed a professor to complain about a mean tweet—and cc'ed the provost.
By punishing Jeff Klinzman, Kirkwood Community College has dealt a blow to free speech.
Republicans and right-leaning independents have turned rapidly against higher ed.
Though Fordham is a private university, under New York law private university decisions that violate the universities' own stated rules may be set aside by a court.
The suit came after the school denied funding to bring Dana Loesch and Andrew Klavan to campus.
The professor's immigration views are wrong, but removing her would compromise academic freedom.
Academic freedom for me but not for thee is no way to run a university
UC–Santa Barbara's Title IX office is "aware of this matter and actively engaged in a response."
A scientific consensus has emerged that trigger warnings just don't work—and student activists should stop demanding them.
Administrator at California's Southwestern College tried to use government transparency law on journalists.
The celebrated law professor lost his position as faculty dean after students demanded his firing.
A local bakery accused the college of defamation after students launched a public campaign against the store for racial profiling. Oberlin mounted a free speech defense.
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