Oberlin cancels classes after KKK scare
Oberlin canceled classes yesterday after someone reported “a person wearing a hood and robe resembling a KKK outfit” near Afrikan Heritage House early in the morning. Instead, the college scheduled a...
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UI president apologizes for public art
A public art piece created by University of Iowa faculty member Serhat Tanyolacar stood on the UI Pentacrest for less than four hours before it was removed. (Mitchell Schmidt/The Gazette) Today’s...
View ArticleNo swastikas for school version of ‘Producers’
A New York high school is staging The Producers, which features a deliberately terrible show within a show called Springtime for Hitler, but swastikas are verboten. “There is no context in a public...
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College kids: Violence is ‘self-defense’
Violence by masked anarchists led Berkeley officials to cancel a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, a right-wing commentator. (The publicity has made his upcoming book, Dangerous, a best-seller.) The Daily...
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Beware the bias police
Universities are creating “Bias Response Teams” to investigate offensive speech, reports the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). Forty-two percent of these teams include police...
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Is free speech only for nice speech?
The University of California spent $600,000 on security to enable a conservative commentator, Ben Shapiro, to speak on campus. Thirty-nine percent of college students believe the First Amendment...
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College kids want free speech to be nice
Less than half of college students know that “hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment and some of those wish it weren’t, reports a free-speech survey by the Foundation for Individual Rights in...
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