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Colleges creating policies that discourage intellectual exchange
Jewish World Review ^
| August 28, 2003
| Terry Eastland
Posted on 08/28/2003 1:37:49 PM PDT by Hobsonphile
In a July letter to colleges and universities across the country, Gerald Reynolds, head of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, addressed "a subject," as he put it, "of central importance to our government, our heritage of freedom and our way of life: the First Amendment." Mr. Reynolds' office doesn't have the authority to bring lawsuits to enforce the First Amendment. What, you might wonder, possessed him to write a letter about it?
The answer begins with the fact that hundreds of colleges and universities have policies restricting speech that the First Amendment protects. Called "speech codes" when initiated in the 1980s - ironically by a generation of professors who in their youth supported the free speech movement of the 1960s - the policies have taken on new guises. Often, they are expressed in vague rules against harassment and target speech deemed to offend a person or group.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: brownshirts; campus; cityofevil; firstamendment; highereducation; ithaca; leftist; speechcodes; terryeastland
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posted on
08/28/2003 1:38:42 PM PDT
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Hobsonphile
(Haiku: Those campus leftists/Oppress free-thinking students/They must be stopped now)
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posted on
08/28/2003 1:45:47 PM PDT
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Imagine
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posted on
08/28/2003 1:48:50 PM PDT
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Imagine
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To: Hobsonphile
"ironically by a generation of professors who in their youth supported the free speech movement of the 1960s"
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...
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08/28/2003 2:59:35 PM PDT
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brianl703
To: Hobsonphile; Behind Liberal Lines
Even when not enforced, as often appears to be the case, the restrictive policies promote an educational environment that discourages intellectual exchange. The ever vigilant Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reports the attempt by students at Ithaca College last spring to get campus police to stop a speech sponsored by College Republicans (the speaker was Bay Buchanan, her topic "the failures of feminism") and have it declared a "bias-related incident" punishable under school rules. The attempt to censor failed, and the event was held. But the school's "Bias-Related Incidents Committee" now is exploring policies that could prohibit similar speeches in the future.City of Evil Alert!
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08/30/2003 12:19:46 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(The liberal hath power to assume a pleasing shape!)
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The ever vigilant Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reports the attempt by students at Ithaca College last spring to get campus police to stop a speech sponsored by College Republicans (the speaker was Bay Buchanan, her topic "the failures of feminism") and have it declared a "bias-related incident" punishable under school rules. The attempt to censor failed, and the event was held. But the school's "Bias-Related Incidents Committee" now is exploring policies that could prohibit similar speeches in the future.
Ithaca is the City of Evil.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Close the mouths of others with another view. Happens all the time.
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