Free Republic

Arriving at the Bolger Conference Center on Millersville University’s campus to listen to Pennsylvania state House committee hearings on academic freedom, I spotted yellow papers on windshields across the parking lot. When I picked one up it read, “Stop the Academic Bill of Restrictions. Free Exchange on Campus. Do you want free speech? Make sure the legislature hears your opposition to the Academic Bill of Restrictions.” During the hearings, Free Exchange on Campus had a couple of people lined up to testify as well as several people to speak during the public comment portion. My question however was, “what is...

On a visit to some colleges and universities the bias so frequently alleged by conservative students and their concerned parents appears fully-formed before the naked eye and ear. Last month, at George Washington University, I filled in for Sara Russo of Students for Academic Freedom in a debate on the Academic Bill of Rights designed by SAF’s founder—conservative author and activist David Horowitz. I faced off against a young lady named Megan Fitzgerald, who works with a group called Campus Free Speech. Later, I learn that Miss Fitzgerald has requested and been given the exclusive right to make presentations on...