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Prediction by University of Delaware RA Comes to Pass

When the 2007-2008 University of Delaware Residence Life indoctrination program became the subject of withering public attention before it was quickly "suspended" by its president, FIRE received dozens of emails from students and RAs about ResLife's coercive administration of the...

How Not to “Exercise Freedom of Speech”

A misunderstanding that FIRE occasionally runs into is the idea that if someone is exercising their freedom of expression in a non-spoken way, such as a posted display, it is a legitimate expressive response to deface or destroy that display as a countervailing exercise of freedom of expression....

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Federal Lawsuit Filed against Shippensburg University as School Blatantly Violates Settlement Repealing Unconstitutional Speech Codes

A complaint filed in federal court today by attorneys from the Alliance Defense Fund alleges that Shippensburg University has dishonestly reinstituted unconstitutional policies in violation of the terms of a 2004 legal settlement reached with members of FIRE's Legal Network. The 2004 settlement came after the U.S. District Court for...

Speech Code of the Month: University of Louisville

FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for May 2008: the University of Louisville. The University of Louisville requires that "public speech and discourse on campus shall be civil," but this hopelessly vague and overbroad restriction on speech has no place at a public university. Louisville also...