This article presents information on the U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito, a federal appeals-court judge. He has championed free speech on campuses while taking a skeptical view of policies intended to protect minority students from verbal harassment or give the minority employees of ...
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students have their own ideas‚ but not all of them are on the same page. That is exactly what is happening on college campuses all across the country. Students have the right to speak‚ but they do not have the right to stop someone else from speaking. Early last month‚ Michael ...
Events relating to Palestine have taken place across many campuses without hindrance, with organisations such as One Solution, a joint Israeli and Palestinian initiative, holding debates on the Israel-Palestine conflict. ADVERTISEMENT In my role as a coordinator, I have always encouraged institutions ...
“Free speech” on college campuses is currently a hotly debated point. The past several years have seen no shortage of campus or community protests regarding the invitation of this-or-that firebrand or ideologue to speak. Colleges and universities should promote academic freedom—that is, the fr...
is the bill’s ban on policies that require students or faculty to make statements in support of diversity, equity and inclusion or “any political ideology”, as stated in the legislation. Overall, Mr Coward said, the legislation, if enacted, would strengthen free speech rights for students ...
What do you think about the broad application here and how we can move forward without unnecessarily curbing the free expression and free speech of students on university campuses in the US? David Palumbo-Liu: Well, a wonderful Palestinian American poet, Remi Kanazi, posted on his Instagram, th...
Americans are fighting a new war on college campuses — this time over free speech — and no one is winning. On the left, aggressive protesters have silenced speeches by conservative thinkers, using intolerance to demand tolerance. On the right, conservatives condemn the suppression of free speec...
Thompson closed the panel session with a challenge to faculty members: “There is no freedom of speech without freedom of thought. A university without freedom of thought is not a university, it’s something else. If we can’t defend freedom of speech on America’s campuses … then I think...
"There is no First Amendment right to use speech to silence others," Chemerinsky said. "If you don't like a speaker, have a non-disruptive protest. If you don't like a speaker, invite your own, but you can't engage in 'canceling' by speaking in a way that others can't be heard...