| USA Today, April 19, "'Free speech' cries ring hollow on college campuses and beyond," by Nat Hentoff Century College's administration — and indeed, all who wither amid such free speech controversies — should welcome a challenge from Oliver Wendell Holmes: "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us, but freedom for the thought that we hate." · · · National Review, April 18, "Tools for School," by Anthony Dick Although the authors do not attempt to provide a comprehensive program geared toward fighting the problem they identify, the Guide itself is an important part of that program. Silverglate and Lorence paint a clear and convincing portrait of the types of coercive indoctrination that are currently flourishing in our institutions of higher learning. In so doing, they arm students with an array of moral and legal arguments to fight back against those who seek to convert the academy into a tool for political conversion. · · · The Appalachian (Appalachian State Univ.), April 13, "ACLU works toward harrassment policy change," by Nick Ianniello FIRE has updated its national student rights Web site, “Spotlight: the Campus Freedom Resource,” to reflect the university’s changes, but Appalachian is still a “red light” school. · · · The Villager (New York), April 12, "N.Y.U. bans Danish cartoons’ display at campus talk," by Chad Smith “N.Y.U. is a university. A university is a place for free and unfettered discussion in the pursuit if knowledge,” said Jonathan Leaf, a speaker at Wednesday night’s event. Leaf, a former editor at New York Press, resigned from his post at the newspaper after its owners denied the editorial staff the right to reprint the Danish cartoons. · · · The Daily Reveille (Louisiana State Univ.), April 6, "Speech codes choke off discourse, satire," by Jason Doré The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education currently gives LSU’s speech code a rating of red. According to the FIRE Web site, a red-light university has at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech. The University’s harassment policies are singled out as a threat to speech on the FIRE rating Web site. · · · The Spectator (Univ. of Wisconsin–Eau Claire), April 6, "National Library Week celebrated," by Adrian Northrup Syverson chose "FIRE's Guide to Free Speech on Campus" as the book he was photographed with. The book, which discusses freedom of speech and how the modern university should be a marketplace of ideas, is very different than some of the other selections, Syverson said. · · · The Crimson White (Univ. of Alabama), April 5, "Resolution wrong way to fight against bias," by Patrick Samples Of course, the notion that the exercise of free speech could be considered a federal crime is patently absurd. The issue here is that the attempt to regulate the press or the expression of opinions by individual students is wrong. And it is wrong whether liberals do it or conservatives do it. · · · Cybercast News Service, April 3, "NYU on Mohammed Cartoons: Discuss, but Don't Look," by Nathan Burchfiel But Greg Lukianoff, president of the free speech advocacy group Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, said the decision to ban the cartoons was wrong. The university's position that students could discuss the cartoons without seeing them was "one of the most frustrating and asinine arguments that I've heard," Lukianoff said. · · · Washington Square News (New York Univ.), April 3, "Admin caves on cartoons," by Eric Moskowitz But NYU is a private university, not a newspaper or a government agency. There are no trade-offs here. It is an enclave, a fortress — a sanctuary of intellectual freedom unbeholden to any intellectual hegemony (or should be). If you are a prospective student and you think you will study at this university (or any other for that matter) and not be offended by anything, you’ve got another thing coming. As Greg Lukianoff, a panelist and the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education said, “No one has a right to not be offended.” · · · New York Post, April 2, "NYU Knuckles" As the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education noted, NYU's decision is "both chilling and absurd. The fact that expression might provoke a strong reaction is a reason to protect it—not an excuse to punish it." | 
‘USA TODAY’ ON FIRE AND THE MOHAMMED CARTOONS
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