Suing for silence, by David Warren, The Ottawa Citizen, Dec 09, 2007

The right to free expression of opinion and belief -- though constrained in its extremes during wartime -- is not something that can be negotiated in a free country. For it is the most fundamental right -- the queen bee in the hive, as it were. Every other freedom depends on...

Liberate The Campus

Strategies for eliminating intellectual debate on campus are manifold, amongst them: preferential hiring by ideology and group identity rather than academic accreditation; stifling speech codes to punish "offensive" language . . . .. Apart from a small contingency of...

Occidental College Settles Free Speech Lawsuit with Wronged Student

Many of us are aware that the ultra Left has poisoned the atmosphere at colleges so badly that free speech rights have been destroyed in some cases.  FSM Contributing Editor Jason Rantz, however, fought back and succeeded in court. There’s hope!  Read about...

Occidental College Settles Lawsuit With 'Shock Jock' Student - Chronicle.com

After he graduated, Mr. Antebi sued Occidental for $10-million, accusing it of violating the so-called Leonard Law, a California statute that guarantees students at private colleges the same First Amendment rights they would have at public institutions. He also alleged, among...

FIRE - Victory at Long Last: Occidental College Settles Free Speech Lawsuit w...

Following a three-year dispute and a multi-million-dollar lawsuit, Occidental College and former student shock jock Jason Antebi have settled a lawsuit in which Antebi sued the school for maliciously violating his freedom of speech and due process rights when it fired him and...

A CONTINUING NIGHTMARE - The Danish Cartoons

by Robert Fulford The National Post July 28, 2007

The Standardization of College Teaching

Canadian universities condemn any Israeli ban

"During the normally quiet months of summer on campus, Canadian university presidents have been near unanimous in their denounciations of a call by Britain's largest professors' union to consider a boycott of Israel's institutions of higher learning. The British resolution,...

Lockout at Bishop's University

MAX HARROLD, The Gazette Bishop's University has locked out 283 unionized employees - including 130 professors, contract faculty and librarians and 153 support staff. The lockout, which started at 12:01 a.m. today at the English-language institution in Lennoxville, near...

Job-Mobbing in Academia: An Article by Ken Westhues

As Westhues explains, "job mobbing" is common in academia. For example, a department controlled by mediocrities may attempt to shun, isolate, and ridicule its single outstanding scholar. Often these attacks are covert or indirect. The goal is to wear down "the target"...

No change yet for the Cadre

The UPEI student union has rejected a proposal to hand responsibility of the student newspaper over to a campus group, saying it wants a new committee to look at the issue.

Speech codes and our 'culture of comfort'

The most recent abuse of student academic freedom was perpetrated by the University of Prince Edward Island, which censored a student paper that dared to publish the Danish cartoons. Perhaps the Danish cartoons controversy, coupled with the extreme culture-of-comfort...