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Friday, 20 August 2010 09:28 |
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For the second time in the past two years, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has decisively ruled in favor of free speech and against the purveyors of speech codes in our nation's universities. In a ruling that deepens and expands the Third Circuit's prior ruling in DeJohn v. Temple University, 537 F.3d 301 (3d Cir. 2008) in several important respects (as Erica noted in depth earlier), the court invalidated key portions of the University of the Virgin Islands' speech codes--a major victory for free speech rights. Read more about this ruling--also briefly discussed at The Volokh Conspiracy, as well as the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed--here in the coming days as the higher education and legal communities ponder this latest strike against speech codes.
In the continuing debate over the less-welcome ruling in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, the Heartland Institute has made a welcome contribution, informed largely by a podcast interview with FIRE President Greg Lukianoff. You can read it here.
Finally, as we blogged earlier, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi) has tackled Isaac Rosenbloom's case at Hinds Community College in Mississippi yet again, in an article that turns its focus to the speech codes in the state of Mississippi as a whole. (Spoiler: they don't do well). It's a welcome bit of sunlight as Mississippi students get ready to hit the books for another semester. |
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 16:31 |
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To many people, "Berkeley" is synonymous with "protest." Mentioning the University of California, Berkeley often conjures up images of bearded bohemians and flower children peacefully rallying for a "hippie" cause of the past, such as the famous Free Speech Movement of the mid-sixties. Indeed, Berkeley's protest culture has given the university a reputation for being a bastion for freedom of expression, which can be quite attractive to prospective students looking for a unique college experience. I know because I was once one of them. At Berkeley, so I thought, I would be immersed in an Eden of free speech, a liberal's utopia, where all opinions were tolerated.
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Monday, 09 August 2010 13:43 |
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Daphne Patai, member of FIRE's Board of Directors and professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at University of Massachusetts Amherst, delivered a rousing keynote address at the 2010 CFN Conference.
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Thursday, 05 August 2010 15:37 |
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FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for August 2010: Front Range Community College in Colorado.
Front Range Community College (FRCC) maintains a "free speech zone" policy limiting expressive activities on each of its three campuses to areas designated by the college. To use those areas, one must complete a "Free Speech Zone Registration Form" (the link is to the form for the Boulder County Campus, but they are all the same—you can see the others here and here). The form contains a perfect blend of unintentional hilarity and horrendous unconstitutionality that makes it an ideal Speech Code of the Month.
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