Now a university in Michigan can punish students for free speech? Although the jokes and humor are not ‘clean’ by any stretch of the imagination, it is still free speech.
Topic: College Fix
Iowa State Student Leaders Backtrack on Free Speech Zones, Claim They’re Advocates of Free Speech
Free speech zones are not an actual expression of free speech, but a restriction of free speech: Iowa State University’s student government considered a bill that would create a new free-speech zone on campus. They…
University of Delaware Gives Grant to On-Campus 2nd Amendment Group to Buy Ammunition
The university prohibits guns and ammunition on campus, so the students will store it at one of their off-campus apartments, but this is an interesting move by the university.
Poster Vandalism Leads to Outcry at Swarthmore
More outrage! Outcry! Swarthmore College student Jacob Malin noticed something amiss on a poster in the college’s French Department: It appeared “the faces of the three students of color looked like they had been intentionally…
Texas Students Stage ‘Die-In’ Protest of a Play due to Blackface
College students at Texas are apparently saying, historical accuracy be damned: University of Texas-Austin protesters don’t want theater audiences to know that white actors wore blackface on stage in the “Roaring 20s.” They staged a…
Hunting Ground Filmmakers think Criticism by Harvard Professors Violates Title IX
Filmmakers take issue with criticism: When Northwestern University students were offended by Prof. Laura Kipnis’s criticism of “sexual paranoia” on college campuses in an essay, they accused her of violating Title IX by creating a “hostile…
School District Bills High School Student Over $7,000 for FOIA Request
The details of why it would cost over $7,000 seems very sketchy: When Robbins “requested a list of which websites were blocked, any guidelines for which websites were blocked, and for the emails in which…
St. Louis University Slows Down Occupy SLU Monument amid Declining Interest by Students
Instead of a monument, it may be some type of artwork, or something.
Academic Claims that Student Protests haven’t Violated Anyone’s Rights
Did this academic forget about the Missouri student journalist who was being threatened by a professor at the University of Missouri and other recent instances? Sounds like selective memory.
Law Student Chastised by Ohio State Law School Dean over Pro-Life Op-Ed
Censorship and intimidation on college campuses continue…so much for free speech and being a place for the free exchange of ideas: Ohio State University law student Madison Gesiotto has received threats over social media, was…