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    ‘Proud Boys’ interrupt Pride event
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 14
    • 1 min

    ‘Proud Boys’ interrupt Pride event

    Drag Queen Story Hour was starting at a Bay Area library when a group of men entered shouting homophobic and transphobic slurs, reports...
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    Teens back free speech for unpopular views
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 7
    • 2 min

    Teens back free speech for unpopular views

    U.S. high school students and their teachers agree that people should be allowed to express unpopular opinions, according to the Knight...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 7
    • 3 min

    FIRE expands free-speech advocacy

    The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is renaming itself the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (still FIRE) as...
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    If you want to speak up, you’d better be a saint
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 22
    • 1 min

    If you want to speak up, you’d better be a saint

    Princeton’s president wants to fire a tenured classics professor, but claims it’s not because he criticized “anti-racist” proposals,...
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    ‘Loyalty oaths’ return as ‘diversity statements’
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 22
    • 2 min

    ‘Loyalty oaths’ return as ‘diversity statements’

    Professors who want tenure or promotion at the University of Illinois will have to submit a statement declaring how they support...
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    What I want
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 15
    • 1 min

    What I want

    Via Powerline Blog
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    The young Puritans
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 15
    • 2 min

    The young Puritans

    Overprotected by their parents, Gen Snowflake demands that college “make them comfortable,” argued Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendment...
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    Causing discomfort remains legal
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 10
    • 2 min

    Causing discomfort remains legal

    Lessons that cause students discomfort remain legal everywhere, even in Florida, writes Peter Minowitz, a Santa Clara University...
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    Did feds solicit ‘parents as terrorists’ letter?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jan 16
    • 1 min

    Did feds solicit ‘parents as terrorists’ letter?

    A National School Boards Association (NSBA) letter suggesting protesting parents may be guilty of “domestic terrorism” launched an FBI...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Apr 30, 2019
    • 1 min

    What About The 1st Amendment?

    Remember that “free speech movement” that started in Berkeley?  It didn’t stick: Middlebury College’s Student Government Association has...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Apr 27, 2019
    • 1 min

    It’s Not Just The President

    In the wake of President Trump’s executive order last month to protect free speech or lose funding, some in higher education join the...
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    Spoiled children
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 5, 2018
    • 2 min

    Spoiled children

    A college education isn’t intended to make people think any more, write Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendent specialist, and Jonathan Haidt,...
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    Free speech trumps ‘offensiveness’
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 31, 2018
    • 1 min

    Free speech trumps ‘offensiveness’

    Oregon’s Liberty High School must respect a student’s free-speech rights to wear a “Donald J. Trump Border Wall Construction Co.”...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 26, 2018
    • 2 min

    Do We Have A Right *Not* To Be Offended In School?

    Is this a 1st Amendment issue? Or does the school have a blanket policy against the wear of *any* seemingly-political messages on student...
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    Can school OK some protests, but not others?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Mar 15, 2018
    • 1 min

    Can school OK some protests, but not others?

    If a school lets students walk out, without penalty, to protest gun violence, is it obliged to allow walkouts for other issues? What...
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    Don’t talk about guns — or square-root signs
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Feb 23, 2018
    • 1 min

    Don’t talk about guns — or square-root signs

    A Louisiana teenager who joked that the square-root sign looks like a gun has been barred from school and faces an expulsion hearing,...
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    Can schools police social media? Should they?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Feb 18, 2018
    • 2 min

    Can schools police social media? Should they?

    A California girl was suspended from the basketball team for retweeting Snoop Dogg holding what appears to be a marijuana joint, reports...
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    Reed rebels — against ‘anti-racist’ disruptors
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Nov 4, 2017
    • 3 min

    Reed rebels — against ‘anti-racist’ disruptors

    At Reed College, possibly the most liberal liberal-arts college in the country, first-year students are standing up to an “anti-racist”...
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    College fees fund controversial groups, speakers
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Nov 3, 2017
    • 1 min

    College fees fund controversial groups, speakers

    Mandatory student fees that fund clubs and guest speakers are under scrutiny from the right and left at college campuses, writes Jon...
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    College kids want free speech to be nice
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Oct 19, 2017
    • 2 min

    College kids want free speech to be nice

    Less than half of college students know that “hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment and some of those wish it weren’t, reports...
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