Chicago Tribune Students and professors at the University of Illinois decided to rally for Barack Obama on the Urbana-Champaign campus Thursday to make clear their stand on an increasingly controversial question as the November elections approach: Is it legal for
Dartblog Dartblog readers probably know that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), where I serve as Vice President, regularly fights college and university administrations who seek to suppress or punish students who exercise fundamental rights such as free
The Washington Times Having reported on many cases of college and university administrations attacking students and professors for purported prejudicial speech that could be "offensive" on campus, I have just discovered an even more appalling case than in my book,
The Chronicle of Higher Education Steven Bitterman was on his way to teach a course in Western civilization at Southwestern Community College last fall when his car slipped off the road. By the time he got back on the road,
Forbes Magazine There were three all-night cafeterias in Harvard Square the year I arrived for law school--1964--and I can still name them all (my favorite was Albiani's). Over the years, though, they disappeared one by one. With them went cheap,
The New York Times - Paper Cuts Blog Harvey Silverglate is a lawyer, newspaper columnist, blogger, civil liberties activist and author ("The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses," written with Alan Charles Kors). I've known him for
The Chronicle of Higher Education Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, is the first recipient of the $25,000 Playboy Foundation Freedom of Expression Award, the foundation announced this morning.The advocacy group, commonly called FIRE, is
WorldNetDaily For years, I have reported on many cases of college and university administrators infected with "political correctness," punishing students and faculty members for allegedly prejudicial and otherwise "offensive" remarks - as if there were a constitutional right not to
Yale Daily News Quinnipiac University Vice President for Public Affairs Lynn Bushnell may have spoken up two weeks ago about the student-journalism controversy that occurred on her campus. But a national group still wants more answers.College student First Amendment rights
PBS MediaShift After New York University journalism student Alana Taylor wrote her first embed report for MediaShift on September 5, it didn't take long for her scathing criticism of NYU to spread around the web and stir conversations. Taylor thought
The Spectator VSU President Dr. Patrick Schloss signed a new General Public Forum Venue policy on Sept. 11, changing VSU's free expression on campus.In a letter to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), Schloss announced that a new
The Daily Princetonian Over the past three years at Princeton, every time I saw another student publication at my door, a demonstration in front of Frist, or heard of our administration's continued support for the academic freedom of Peter Singer,
The Boston Globe WHY DID the federal district court gag three MIT undergraduates who apparently discovered a flaw in the MBTA's electronic fare-collection system? The reason one judge imposed the unconstitutional gag order prohibiting the students from presenting their paper
The Daily Collegian Online University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) President Gavin Keirans revealed formative plans for a legal services clinic in partnership with the Dickinson School of Law Saturday during the Association of Big Ten Students (ABTS) conference. The proposed
The Washington Times The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit just made hundreds of colleges wonder how long their restrictive speech codes can survive. On Aug. 4, the Philadelphia-based appellate court affirmed a lower court's ruling against a
Student Press Law Center The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a decision Monday by a federal district court that Temple University's former anti-harassment code was unconstitutional. Alliance Defense Fund attorneys for Christian DeJohn, a former Temple graduate student
Spiked In the Michigan city of Flint, police chief David Dicks has outlawed wearing pants too low down - a practice that has colloquially come to be known as 'sagging'. Dicks has ordered his officers to arrest anyone wearing trousers
Inside Higher Ed This month in an important victory for free speech on campus, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that Temple University's former sexual harassment policy was unconstitutional. While free speech advocates from across the
Jurist Will Creeley [Director of Legal and Public Advocacy, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education]: "Yesterday's Third Circuit ruling [opinion, PDF] in DeJohn v. Temple University is a important victory for free speech on campus. In declaring Temple's former sexual
