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Arizona Rep. Proposes Bill Amendment to “Protect” Western Values Arizona state representative Russell Pearce has proposed an amendment to Senate Bill 1108, originally intended to implement minor changes to Arizona’s Homeland Security advisory councils, that seeks to ban Arizona public schools from using taxpayers’ money to teach subjects considered contradictory to Western civilization or democracy. |
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MIT Student Subpoenaed Over Text Messaging Tool New York City recently subpoenaed MIT doctoral student Edward Hirsch to gain access to text messages sent through TxTMob, a system Hirsch developed to help activists communicate via text messaging. The system, created for protesters at the 2004 Republican Convention in New York, was designed specifically to guard their digital communications from law enforcement. |
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FIRE Targets Speech Codes at Tulane The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a first amendment advocacy group, has asked Tulane University President Scott Cowen to clarify the university's policy on free expression. |
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Interview with CU Editorialist Max Karson An NYU student reporter sat down with Max Karson, the writer of the recent controversial editorial “If It’s War Asians Want…” published in the Campus Press at CU Boulder. Does Max in fact hate Asians? Hear from Max in his own words. |
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The University of California Los Angeles Bruin Republicans are bringing in speakers and screening a movie on campus for Political Correctness Week. |
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Two masked people, one identified as a University of California, Berkeley alumnus, protested last week from a tree outside a university building. |
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The University of Colorado’s Student Union is condemning two opinion articles recently published by the Campus Press that were interpreted as racist toward Hispanic and Asian communities. |
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Anti-abortion Display Incites Protest In cooperation with the Florida State University Campus Renewal Ministries, the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, a national nonprofit organization, put up a display called The Genocide Awareness Project on the Florida State campus. |
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Former Northeastern Student Writing Book Detailing Administration’s Mistreatment Former Northeastern University student Ashley Mendivil has begun research for a book she plans to write to expose flaws in the university’s advising and financial assistance departments. |
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UC San Diego’s Free-Speech Policy to be Written by Students Following strong opposition and allegations of unconstitutionality, the University of California San Diego’s controversial draft of a free-speech policy has been thrown out and the University has decided to opt for a new student-crafted version. |
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STUDENT NEWSPAPER FIGHTS FOR INDEPENDENCE In response to a recent motion by Georgetown’s largest student newspaper, The Hoya, to achieve financial and editorial independence, the university has applied to trademark the Hoya’s masthead, preventing the paper from using the Hoya name. |
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UNIVERSITY SITES IRS CODE TO PREVENT STUDENTS FROM HOLDING POLITICAL RALLY Northwestern University prevented students from holding a rally for Ron Paul on campus space the students had reserved. |
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Last week, students across the country hosted “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” as well as, on many campuses, counter programming and protests. |
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Student Council requests removal of speech code In their ongoing effort to clarify free speech rules on campus, the Johns Hopkins Student Council passed a resolution asking the administration to remove the university’s “civility policy.” |
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Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week spurs controversy Conservative activist David Horowitz is sponsoring “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” on campuses across the country next week and controversy is already spilling over on several campuses. |
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University taping student protests The Daily Cardinal at the University of Wisconsin, Madison investigates the university practice of video-taping student protests. |
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In the wake of Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia, many campuses are grappling with how unpopular speakers and ideas are handled on their campus. |
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Mr. Ahmadinajad goes to Columbia Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech Columbia University sparked protests and University President Bollinger’s combative introduction drew both praise and criticism. |
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In perhaps the most interesting response the Florida taser incident, the editorial board of Colorado State University’s Rocky Mountain Collegian published an editorial Friday morning under the headline “Taser this” and the text “F—K BUSH.” |
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Campus police at University of Florida tasered a student attempting to ask a question to Senator John Kerry on Monday. The incident has sparked protests on campus, national news attention, and raised questions of free speech and the use of force on campus. |
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No “Bong Hits for Jesus” in High School, but College? In one of the most interestingly named cases in recent memory, the Supreme Court ruled that high schools could limit student free speech. |
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At Northeastern University, an article and accompanying editorial published in the school’s conservative paper about an academic assistance program for disadvantaged students has stirred up controversy, as some disagree with the portrayal of the program and the students it helps. |
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Campus proselytizing caused a stir at several schools this week. |
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A fake advertisement featuring a stereotypically dressed African American man in a campus humor magazine at Brandeis University has sparked debate between students. Students attending a diversity conference at Ohio State University discussed themed parties at the school. |
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A free speech controversy is brewing at MIT, where an unclear policy is the center of a flyering debate. |
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Westboro to Picket University of Kentucky Graduation The notorious Westboro Baptist Church will picket the University of Kentucky’s graduation ceremony, protesting America’s tolerance of gays. |
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Since the Virginia Tech shootings, campuses nationwide have been on alert for anything reminiscent of the tragedy. A number of campus papers are reporting incidents highlighting the tension between students’ rights and students’ health and safety. |
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In what appears to be the end of a standoff, the Student Senate of the University of Rhode Island decided not to derecognize the College Republicans for refusing to issue an apology for their White Heterosexual American Male scholarship. |
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The Saga of Stage Weapons Comes to a Close The stage weapons ban at Yale University—established in reaction to the deadly shooting at Virginia Tech—has been reversed just a few days after it was enacted. |
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Members of the YCampaign, a student group at Haverford College, plastered the campus with posters in anticipation of their open salon about the existence of racism. Meanwhile, Haverford's sister school Bryn Mawr College was caught up in its own race-related controversy. |
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Students Question Free Speech “Zone” Students at the University of Southern California gathered last week to protest what they call a designated free-speech zone on campus. |
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Virginia Tech Fallout Part 1: Student Arrested For Virginia Tech Comments Max Karson was arrested for making allegedly threatening comments during a class discussion of the Virginia Tech massacre. |
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Student Sues Over Cancellation A graduate student at Penn State University is suing the school for allegedly violating his First Amendment rites, citing the University's cancellation of his art exhibit last year. |
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At Columbia University, a panel discussion about allegations of the harvest of organs from Falun Gong practitioners in China sparked protest from members of the Columbia University Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CUCSSA). A free-speech crisis ensued. |
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Free-Speech Debate at the University of Rhode Island In what’s being called an “unprecedented move,” the President of the University of Rhode Island has told the Student Senate to drop its demand for College Republicans to issue an apology for their whites-only scholarship. |
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University Limits Access to Administrative Building Administrators at the University of Southern California have limited access to the Bovard Administration Building in response to the anti-sweatshop sit-in held there last week. |
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Anti-Islamic Sentiments On Campus Students at the New Jersey Institute of Technology were surprised to find stacks of pamphlets expressing anti-Islamic messages all over their Campus Center. Student response was mixed, as some students were offended and others saw it as a harmless prank. |
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Mystery Racist Flyers Distributed Students and faculty at Washington State University were surprised to walk into a campus building and find flyers promoting white solidarity posted on the walls and stuck under doors. |
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Three students from Yale University were arrested on charges including first-degree reckless endangerment, third-degree criminal mischief, second-degree arson, breach of peace and conspiracy to commit second-degree arson after burning an American flag. |
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On October 4, student protesters at Columbia University rushed the stage as Minuteman Project Founder Jim Gilchrist was giving a speech. Now the University’s disciplinary process is winding down, and the students involved in the scuffle got the lightest of four possible disciplinary scenarios. |
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Abortion Debate Thrust to the Front A non-profit pro-life organization held a demonstration at Auburn University after being invited by a pro-life student group. |
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Group Members Arrested for Chalking Members of a group visiting Baylor University were arrested on charges of criminal trespassing after they refused to stop chalking messages of God’s love on the Christian campus. |
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College Republicans’ Stunt Still Stirring Outrage It’s been four weeks since NYU’s College Republicans held their “Find the Illegal Immigrant” event but many aren’t ready to forgive. |
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Student “Advertisement” Limited in Placement, Permission The University of Georgia Student Affairs office and University police have begun cracking down on student chalk writing on campus property. The additional enforcement also applies to paper literature. |
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College Republicans Punished for Fake Scholarship The University of Rhode Island Student Senate punished their College Republicans for starting a scholarship that violated Student Senate bylaws prohibiting discrimination. |
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The Academic Affairs Council of the Student Senate at the University of New Hampshire held a forum for students to consider academic freedom. |
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Activist's Battle Far From Over The battle between Penn State and activist Olivia Guevara officially ended last week, when Judicial Affairs asked for damage fees and issued a seven-year citation on her academic record (criminal charges against her were dropped for lack of evidence). The motives for the University’s prosecution of Guevara are still being questioned, however. |
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Considering Opinions in the Classroom An article from the University of Delaware explores the implications of legislation, currently being considered by the Arizona State Legislature, which would limit what professors are allowed to say in college classrooms. |
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Last year, when the Vagina Monologues was banned on Providence College’s campus, outraged students first protested, then began filming a documentary about the ban and students’ subsequent attempts to stage the play off-campus. |
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Joshua McNair, a Colorado University Masters student and instructor in the English department, wrote a recently discovered essay promoting white solidarity in 2004. |
