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Yale Faculty Resign From Residential College Roles; Concerns about Free Speech Remain

f11photo / Shutterstock.com Late yesterday, master of Yale University’s Silliman College Nicholas Christakis and his wife, associate master Erika Christakis, resigned from their Silliman College dutie...

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Harvard Faculty and Former President Oppose University’s Threat of Sanctions for Independent Club Members

Two weeks ago, FIRE wrote Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust to express our grave concern over the institution’s plan to impose harsh sanctions on students who join independent, single-sex...

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Tennessee Bill to Punish UT for Sex Week Becomes Law

For several years, the Tennessee legislature has threatened to take action against the University of Tennessee (UT) for allowing students to conduct an annual “Sex Week” on campus. Now the state legis...

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Little Sisters of the Poor victory (of sorts) at Supreme Court

Send cases back to lower courts with expectation of resolution protecting Little Sisters. The Supreme Court unanimously pushed the Little Sisters of the Poor contraception case back to the lower court...

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Special Treatment? Harvard Exempts ‘The Harvard Crimson’ from Single-Gender Club Policy

Harvard University has exempted the school’s daily student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson , from its new policy banning members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations from holding leadersh...

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A Messy End to the Semester: Harvard, Blacklisting, and Curtailing Student Rights

f11photo / Shutterstock.com Earlier this month, Harvard University announced that students who are members of independent, single-sex organizations off campus will be ineligible for Rhodes and Marshal...

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Arizona Governor Signs Bills Protecting Free Speech on College Campuses

Yesterday, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed two free speech bills into law. The first bill, HB 2615 , prohibits public colleges and universities from restricting student speech to tiny, out-of-the-w...

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Symposium: The return of Chief Justice Roberts

Erin Morrow Hawley is Associate Professor of Law and the University of Missouri School of Law. She filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Independent Women’s Forum (where she is now a legal fellow) i...

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‘Gravely Concerned’ Over Social Club Sanctions, FIRE Writes to Harvard

Marcio Jose Bastos Silva/ Shutterstock.com FIRE has asked Harvard University to reverse the “illiberal and chilling new policy” aimed at students who join unrecognized single-sex social organizations....

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The Chilling Effect of Investigations

In April, the Department of Justice moved the goalposts on enforcing federal sexual harassment law on college campuses. According to DOJ’s new directive to the University of New Mexico (UNM), Title IX...

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Harvard’s Double Standard on the Role of Student Organizations

f11photo / Shutterstock.com On Friday afternoon, Harvard College Dean Rakesh Kurana sent a letter to Harvard President Drew Faust, recommending that Harvard take aggressive steps to deter students fro...

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BBC Finds Footage of Traitor Kim Philby

New video shows arch-spy Kim Philby briefing East German Stasi The BBC aired footage of notorious MI6 traitor Kim Philby briefing agents of East Germany’s Stasi secret police on Monday. Philby and his...

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Harvard Brings Back the Blacklist for Final Club, Fraternity, Sorority Students

BOSTON, May 6, 2016—In a stunning attack on freedom of association , Harvard University announced today that members of independent, single-sex, off-campus organizations will be blacklisted from Rhode...

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A Lifetime in ‘The Truth Business’: FIRE Honors the Exceptional Career of Wisconsin Professor Donald Downs

Editor’s Note: University of Wisconsin Professor Emeritus Donald Downs is a longtime friend of FIRE. Coincidentally, I worked for him as a teaching assistant when I attended the University of Wisconsi...

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Victory: Texas College Settles Free Speech Lawsuit After Telling Student That Gun Rights Sign Needs ‘Special Permission’

HOUSTON, May 4, 2016—Yesterday, the Blinn College Board of Trustees agreed to settle a First Amendment lawsuit filed last year by a student who was told that she would need to jump through numerous bu...

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Legal history highlight: Justices who left the Court for “better” positions

On February 13, 2016, Justice Antonin Scalia passed away in his sleep, one of forty-nine Justices to die during active service on the Court. Justices are “notoriously reluctant” to leave office, James...

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John McAdams Sues Marquette University for Suspension Over Blog Post

The tenured Marquette University political science professor suspended in 2014 for blogging about a student’s dispute with an instructor over a class discussion of gay marriage announced today he will...

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University of Wisconsin-Superior Abandons Investigation of Newspaper’s April Fools’ Edition

Last week, FIRE wrote a letter to the University of Wisconsin – Superior (UWS) demanding that administrators drop their investigation into the April Fools’ edition of the campus’ student newspaper, th...

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University of Chicago Reforms All Speech Codes, Earns FIRE’s Highest Free Speech Rating

CHICAGO, April 26, 2016—The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ( FIRE ) is excited to announce the latest university to earn its highest, “green light” rating for free speech: the Universit...

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Former Soviet Chess Champion Explains Realities of Socialism to Bernie Supporters

Garry Kasparov: “It corrodes not only the economy but the human spirit itself” Apparently, Bernie Sanders’ supporters can’t stop themselves from expressing their thoughts about how great socialism is....

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