Joanne Jacobs
Speech codes discriminate against ‘neurodiverse’ students
College students with autism and other “neurodiverse” conditions could use the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to overturn speech...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 30, 2017
- 1 min
Doubleplus Ungood Crimethink
How can anyone in America think this is a good idea, or even that it would pass legal muster? Students at Carl Sandburg College could now...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 28, 2017
- 1 min
District Admits Asst Principal Acted Illegally
The students were protesting on the public sidewalk in front of the school, not on school grounds and not during school. Agree with...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 24, 2017
- 1 min
College kids need challenge, not ‘safety’
Instead of demanding “safe spaces,” young people should be encouraged to seek challenges, writes Andrew Rotherham in U.S. News. He had a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 24, 2017
- 3 min
Stick and stones may break my bones …
Speech is violence, if it causes chronic stress, argues Lisa Feldman Barrett, a Northeastern psychology professor, in The New York Times....
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 7, 2017
- 3 min
Mob rule at Evergreen
Too many American colleges have become “institutions of higher daycare,” writes Lance Morrow, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 10, 2017
- 2 min
Suspended for racist images, boys sue school
Four Bay Area 11th graders suspended for “liking” or commenting on a racist Instagram image have sued the school district and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 7, 2017
- 2 min
College divide: Ideas or ‘justice’?
The divide on elite college campuses separates defenders of “the free exchange of ideas” from those who see “inclusivity and social...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 30, 2017
- 2 min
Kipnis: Feminism shouldn’t be fragile
A week after a Middlebury crowd disrupted Charles Murray’s speech, and sent a professor to the hospital with a concussion, feminist...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 26, 2017
- 1 min
College ‘diversity council’ admits racism hoax
Posters calling for “white Americans” to report “illegal aliens” alarmed Gustavus Adolphus College students, who flooded Bias Response...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 23, 2017
- 1 min
FIRE names 10 worst college for free speech
The 10 Worst Colleges For Free Speech include Harvard, Georgetown, the University of Oregon and University of South Carolina, according...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 21, 2017
- 1 min
Trump-twitting homework is __________
A Staten Island middle-school teacher is under fire for an anti-Trump fill-in-the-blank question on vocabulary homework, reports the New...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 10, 2017
- 1 min
Beware the bias police
Universities are creating “Bias Response Teams” to investigate offensive speech, reports the Foundation for Individual Rights in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 10, 2017
- 2 min
College kids: Violence is ‘self-defense’
Violence by masked anarchists led Berkeley officials to cancel a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, a right-wing commentator. (The publicity...
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