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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...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 30, 20173 min read
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 30, 20171 min read
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 28, 20171 min read


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, 20171 min read


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
Jul 23, 20173 min read


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
Jun 6, 20173 min read


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
May 9, 20172 min read


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
Apr 6, 20172 min read


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 29, 20172 min read


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
Mar 26, 20171 min read


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 23, 20171 min read


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 20, 20171 min read


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, 20171 min read


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...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 10, 20172 min read
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