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University has “got to be a place where we avoid groupthink and people feel free to explore and express ideas…[but] with hate speech and other things, we need to clamp down and draw lines”, he said. “This is a very contested area, very hard to navigate, because free speech itself...
Leading the pack for the best in free speech is the University of Chicago, which maintains its reputation thanks in large part to its Chicago Statement, which has served as model guidance for allowing freedom of speech and expression at its campus and many others nationwide sinc...
The Guardian got a long and detailed comment from Inaya Folarin Iman, a director of the Free Speech Union who led work on the project. Iman said: “I have always been very open about the FSU’s involvement and sponsorship … No doubt the students who have contacted you ...
Smita Jamdar explores how the Middle East conflict challenges free speech principles and practice Policy 13 Sep 2023 While universities crumble, the political silence is deafening Party conferences ought to bring bold commitments—but probably won’t, says Nick Hillman Most Read UK 23 Jan 2025...
Boston decided earlier this Term, suggests a sharp break with past Court jurisprudence on the balance between the dictates of the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses. Government entities should review their policies on religious activity on government property or by employees in connection with ...
Dr Drake said the California system was committed to protecting free speech, “including expression of viewpoints that some find deeply offensive”. Dr Block, though, said that some protester tactics were “shocking and shameful” and put some Jewish students “in a state of anxiety and fear”....
Then there were the disastrouscongressional hearingsin which elite college presidents’ answers on antisemitism and free speech failed to measure up to common sense, let alone to their institutions’ reputations. And as a backdrop to it all, there was “statement fatigue.” Since 2014 or so, ...
Can public universities ban racist, sexist, or otherwise offensive speech? Lee Rowland of the ACLU explains how the First Amendment affects free speech on campus. Lee Rowland is a senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technol
NU school administrators, nevertheless, have done very little to enforce the rule. Campus officials spent much of Thursday negotiating with the demonstrators, hammering out guidelines that would allow for free speech while preventing the kind of protests that have roiled universities across the country...