Universities are supposed to be a place to exchange ideas — not silence them. Tell that to Vanderbilt, where a hypersensitive student body is demanding the head of a conservative black professor for daring to…
Topic: free speech
Claremont McKenna College Bowed Down to Intimidation, Student Paper says
The Claremont Independent staff wrote an editorial and blasted the college for not confronting activists.
Prof. Carol Swain faces Opposition for Her Personal Views, Not Supported by Vanderbilt
College Fix reported: An LGBT student activist was so incensed by a controversial professor at Vanderbilt University that he threatened to ruin her if she didn’t censor her own political opinions outside of class. Law…
Huh? Mizzou Student VP ‘Tired of Hearing’ about the 1st Amendment
Wait, a student is tired of hearing about how the First Amendment protects free speech? “Last night on MSNBC, Missouri Students Association Vice-President Brenda Smith-Lezama said she is “tired of hearing” about that pesky First…
Yale Student Protesters Allegedly Spit on Free Speech Advocates
So much for tolerance for other’s right to free speech, huh?
Mizzou Police ask Students to Report Hateful and Hurtful Speech
Why are universities coddling their students? It won’t help them when they are in the real world and become working professionals.
Mizzou’s Social Media Policy is Very 1984-esque, Written by Its Law Students
Great take from the College Fix: Law students wrote a breathtakingly autocratic, sloppy social-media policy that brings to mindThe Simpsons Halloween episode where Ned Flanders rules a 1984-like alternate reality that enforces constant smiling. After…
Mizzou Communications Professor Tries to Forcibly Remove Student Reporter from Public Area
Melissa Click, who is an assistant professor of mass media at the University of Missouri, tried to get other students to forcibly remove a student reporter out of the protester’s camp area in the public quad…
Iowa Community College Administrators Get Away with Intimidating Student Journalists
Yup, the administrators are quite punitive when it comes to community college affairs, apparently. Muscatine Community College student journalists now know that.
Wesleyan President Stands by Student Paper after Black Lives Matter Column
Yet his comments are a bit confusing, but he does still stand by the student paper, Argus, after it published a column on Black Lives Matter.