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After report of racist incident, Syracuse suspends all fraternities — even minority ones

Chad Robertson Media / Shutterstock.com SYRACUSE, N.Y., Nov. 22, 2019 — Days after an alleged racist incident caused Syracuse University to pull the plug on all fraternity activities — even those of m...

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FAN 233: 2019 Tony Mauro Media Lawyer Award Winners Announced

Tony Mauro The American Lawyer and ALM recently announced the first winners of the Tony Mauro Media Lawyer Award, "established this year to honor attorneys who zealously advocate for freedom of the pr...

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Amid Radford cover-up, more stolen papers nationwide, newspaper theft appears on the rise

The newsroom of Radford University's student paper, The Tartan. (Courtesy Dylan Lepore) Are more student newspapers going missing again after a two-decade downturn ? It sure seems that way. A bizarre ...

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Extinction Rebellion Activists Take Over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Office

Perhaps they really should have held this protest in Eric Swalwell’s office as he is the most egregious natural gas emitter. The climate cult Extinction Rebellion protested fossil fuels in the Middle ...

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Getting it right: Cornell’s new ethics guidelines stress importance of expressive rights in international collaborations

Cornell University released a set of guidelines yesterday intended to inform the institution’s partnerships with universities and programs abroad. As academic collaboration continues overseas, especia...

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George Washington University’s investigation into Snapchat video chills speech

George Washington University is investigating two students for a video expressing anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiments. This investigation into protected speech risks chilling student expression an...

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Ohio University orders student groups to stop meeting and talking over social media; promises arbitrary enforcement of ban

In response to hazing allegations reported earlier this fall, Ohio University banned 14 student groups from hosting gatherings and communicating via social media. The directive, which is still partial...

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Embroiled in #FartGate Controversy, Rep. Eric Swalwell Denies Farting on Live TV

Conspiracy theories abound During a live interview on MSNBC Monday evening, Rep. Swalwell a very loud, unmistakable fart-sounding noise overpowered the mic. Just listen. Sound up. VOLUME UP pic.twitte...

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FAN 231: 'Masterpiece Cakeshop' Redux as Floral Artist Files Cert Petition in Same-Sex Wedding Case

In Obergefell [v. Hodges] , I warned that the Court’s decision would “inevitabl[y] . . . come into conflict” with religious liberty, “as individuals . . . are confronted with demands to participate i...

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Diablo Valley College violates First Amendment, state law, by dismissing newspaper adviser

Milan oppermann / Shutterstock.com It’s a tale we’ve seen too many times before: A student newspaper does its job by reporting on campus controversies. The college is unhappy with the tone of the repo...

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FIRE 2019 Faculty Conference: Academics debate key issues in higher education

Attendees at FIRE's 2019 Faculty Conference at Boston University. This past weekend at Boston University, FIRE gathered roughly 70 faculty members and graduate students from institutions around the co...

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Jury Finds Roger Stone Guilty of Lying to Congress, Witness Tampering

Stone never took the stand. A jury has found Roger Stone guilty of lying to Congress and witness tampering: The jury found Stone repeatedly misrepresented and concealed his 2016 attempt at collaborati...

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FAN 230: How Western Companies Help Promote Chinese Censorship and Surveillance Worldwide

Why would any United States company, or any company in a Western democracy, elect to promote the kind of Orwellian censorship system prevalent in China? That problem and the answer to it captured my a...

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FAN 229: Nine GOP Lawmakers Accuse CNN of Violating "the Law and the Constitution" for Not Airing Trump Ad

alisafarov / Shutterstock.com In an Oct. 18, 2019, letter to CNN's Jeff Zucker , nine GOP congressmen expressed their objections to what they viewed as CNN's censorship of a Trump campaign ad. In rele...

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Why the Supreme Court’s Davis standard is necessary to restore free speech to America’s college campuses: Part I

( Change is coming to the way college campuses deal with Title IX and issues of sex discrimination, harassment, and assault. On Nov. 16, 2018, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OC...

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Today is the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

For the most part, the “experts” failed to predict the collapse of the Soviet Union It was a momentous event when it happened thirty years ago: the fall of the Berlin Wall. It seemed a day of great ho...

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Déjà vu all over again with student newspaper thefts at Radford University

Famous New York Yankees coach and manager Yogi Berra once said, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” That’s close to how it feels here at FIRE when we hear student newspapers have been stolen from stan...

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Harvard enacts problematic policies for controversial speakers

A bronze statue of John Harvard inside Harvard Yard at Harvard University. (PhillipJR / Shutterstock) Last month, The Crimson reported that Harvard College was rolling out new regulations for events ...

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Sen. Chuck Grassley presses universities about commitment to academic freedom

(Katherine Welles/Shutterstock) Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent letters last week to Harvard University, Duke University, Villanova University, and Sarah Lawrence C...

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Unconstitutional ‘Red Flag’ Laws Won’t Make Us Safer

While the desire to do something to prevent mass shootings is admirable, these laws are certain to do more harm than good. We all want to put an end to mass shootings. But debate is raging over just h...

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