Faculty Lounge Poll: 71% of Democrats want to Punish Free Speech, like Hate Speech Spencer Irvine January 13, 2016 Hate speech is not something we encourage, but it is protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution. Yet Democrats…
Faculty Lounge Missouri Lawmaker Proposes Bill to Protect Student Journalists Spencer Irvine January 12, 2016 This is, no doubt, a response to Melissa Click’s attempt to kick out a student journalist from protests at the…
Faculty Lounge Phoenix Community College Barred Students from Passing Out Copies of the U.S. Constitution Spencer Irvine January 9, 2016 Free speech zones strike again at our constitutional rights.
Faculty Lounge Missouri Lawmakers Call for Mizzou Professor Melissa Click’s Firing Spencer Irvine January 5, 2016 She was the professor who asked for ‘muscle’ to remove a student reporter from the quad on campus during a…
Faculty Lounge Nearly Half of Colleges Restrict Free Speech, Report Finds Spencer Irvine January 3, 2016 That’s disturbing, but not surprising, considering all the news that has hit the headlines over the past couple years on…
Faculty Lounge Muslim Students at UC-San Diego Demand Zero Tolerance Policy for Islamophobic Speech Spencer Irvine December 29, 2015 Um, doesn’t that infringe on the Constitution, say, the First Amendment?! Gee whiz, students, read the U.S. Constitution for once.
Faculty Lounge UCLA Won’t Suspend Student for Anti-Semitic Social Media Comment Spencer Irvine December 25, 2015 It is protected under the First Amendment, but it doesn’t make it right to make hateful, hurtful comments.
Faculty Lounge Free Speech is Less Safe on American Colleges Spencer Irvine December 17, 2015 Great take by our friend George Leef. On public college and universities, the First Amendment applies, thus giving students, faculty…
Faculty Lounge Satirist Gets Yale Students to Sign Petition to Ban Free Speech Spencer Irvine We really have no hope for our future in America, do we?
Faculty Lounge Free Speech Under Siege in America Spencer Irvine December 15, 2015 A dangerous trend in America…will we be left with any free speech if the left-wing speech code fanatics have their…
Faculty Lounge Satire Being Punished at University under the Guise of Title IX Spencer Irvine December 14, 2015 Now a university in Michigan can punish students for free speech? Although the jokes and humor are not ‘clean’ by…
Faculty Lounge Iowa State Student Leaders Backtrack on Free Speech Zones, Claim They’re Advocates of Free Speech Spencer Irvine December 13, 2015 Free speech zones are not an actual expression of free speech, but a restriction of free speech: Iowa State University’s…
