FIRE has compiled a survey of the standards of evidence employed by the nation’s top colleges and universities in an effort to gauge the impact of the new requirements announced by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR). FIRE’s survey demonstrates that OCR’s requirement will have a significant impact on university judicial processes.
FIRE’s Exclusive Interview with Flemming Rose, Editor Behind Censored Mohammed Cartoons
On September 24, 2009, FIRE interviewed Flemming Rose, cultural editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, about the censorship by Yale University Press of the controversial Mohammed cartoons he commissioned in 2005 to be published in his newspaper as an exercise of freedom of expression. The cartoons and several other previously uncontroversial images of Mohammed were removed from the book about the cartoons themselves, The Cartoons That Shook the World, in a widely criticized exercise of cowardice in the face of nonexistent threats.
Brandeis: Still Abusing A Professor
Minding the Campus posted this incisive examination of recent events at Brandeis University authored by FIRE co-founder Harvey Silverglate and Director of Legal and Public Advocacy Will Creeley. Silverglate’s and Creeley’s article takes Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz to task for his handling of both the Rose Art Museum fiasco and the case of Professor Donald Hindley.
Please Report to Your Resident Assistant to Discuss Your Sexual Identity–It’s Mandatory!
The University of Delaware case is a quintessential example of good intentions gone horribly, horribly wrong. The school has given “sustainability” such a bad name among conservative critics—even those who have been warming to environmentalism—that it will take years to undo the damage.
Campus Speech Codes: Absurd, Tenacious, and Everywhere
One can be forgiven for thinking that campus speech codes are a thing of the past. After all, there were no fewer than five legal decisions from 1989 to 1995 overturning such codes as unlawful or unconstitutional. Sadly, however, speech codes did not disappear in the 1990s; in fact, they increased in number even as it became painfully clear that they were both unlawful and unwise.