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Free speech: University of Wisconsin reverses decision to close down panel of antiwar speakers

donal brown April 28, 2010

Citing procedural and security issues, the University of Wisconsin shut down a panel of speakers but reversed itself after conferring with attorneys. -db FIRE Commentary April 26, 2010 By Adam Kissel After cancelling a panel of antiwar speakers last Friday, University of Wisconsin – Madison (UW) has reversed its decision, and the event will proceed tonight as planned. The university also will not charge an unconstitutional security fee to any of the student or academic

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Duke restores pro-life group’s free speech rights

donal brown March 30, 2010

Duke University reversed a decision by its Women’s Center that banned a pro-life student group from holding a discussion on student motherhood at the center. -db FIRE Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Commentary March 30, 2010 DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University has reversed a decision by its Women’s Center that prohibited the Duke Students for Life (DSFL) student group from holding a discussion on student motherhood at a Women’s Center venue during the group’s

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University of Chicago censors student facebook post

donal brown March 27, 2010

Continuing a practice of monitoring and censoring student posts on social media, the University of Chicago forced a student to delete comments about a professor from his private Facebook page. -db FIRE Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Commentary March 24, 2010 CHICAGO — For the second time in two years, the University of Chicago has censored a student’s post on a private Facebook page. Undergraduate Joseph “Tex” Dozier posted a joke that he had

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Student body government at California university reinstates funding for student media

donal brown March 15, 2010

The student government of the University of California, San Diego ended its moratorium on funding student media. The student body president had unilaterally decreed a funding freeze to head off  “hateful speech” and divisions among students after an off-campus event thought by many to be racist. -db FIRE Commentary March 11, 2010 SAN DIEGO —In a victory for freedom of the press on campus, the student government of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) voted

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Reprimands of faculty in campus protest over budget cuts raises serious First Amendment issues

donal brown December 8, 2009

A rally over budget cuts held in a tiny free speech patio at Southwestern College spilled out onto the larger campus, bringing student and faculty protesters into a confrontation with police and garnering reprimands for three faculty members. Some question whether the school administration can under the Constitution make the vast majority of campus a non-public forum. -DB FIRE Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Opinion December 4, 2009 By Peter Bonilla A batch of articles

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