NYU students react to a professor’s column that characterized Hasan’s actions at Ford Hood as “Going Muslim.”
Signs point to the Supreme Court taking another look at the right of student organizations to set qualifications for membership.
Federal court grants temporary restraining order against free speech zone, permitting ‘Empty Holster’ protest.
A private event hosted by the USC College Republicans featuring conservative speaker David Horowitz prompted protests and a walkout Wednesday night.
Minding the Campus invited several academics and other observers of the campus scene to post brief reactions to University of Chicago President Zimmer’s remarks on academic freedom.
Minding the Campus invited several academics and other observers of the campus scene to post brief reactions to University of Chicago President Zimmer’s remarks on academic freedom.
Today I am scheduled to speak at the University of Southern California. The focus of my speech will be the genocidal incitement of the prophet Mohammed that calls on Muslims to exterminate the Jews as the condition of their redemption.F
The University of North Texas (UNT) has revised its “Free Speech and Public Assembly Policy,” which previously provided for only six “free speech areas” on campus where students could “engage in constitutionally protected speech and expression at the University of North Texas.”
To the class of 2013, Columbia University’s recent public trials over academic freedom may seem like ancient history, discussed only on occasion in University Writing classrooms or encountered by accident while exploring next semester’s course schedule and Googling professor Joseph Massad.
Over the past two decades we have witnessed the emergence of a mass movement of political extremism and support for totalitarianism on Western college campuses.
Police reported no serious incidents at Temple University last night during the speech on campus by Geert Wilders, a controversial Dutch politician with anti-Islamic views.
Even before Dutch politician Geert Wilders delivered his address at Temple University this week, in which he warned students that a “stealth jihad” was stifling discussion of radical Islam, student groups and Temple faculty administrators had collaborated to confirm the urgency of his message that free speech is under assault in modern academia.
At first glance one would be hard pressed to align David Horowitz and Sir Salman Rushdie on any socio-cultural barometer together, but this is no longer the case.
Conservative warrior David Horowitz was scheduled to speak at St. Louis University this month. But he won’t be. University officials canceled his speech because of its title: “Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights.”
The Muslim Students Association Attempts to Shut Down Free Speech on Campus and Is Challenged By the David Horowitz Freedom Center
Over the past decade the University of California at Irvine has become a center of Israel hatred and Jew bashing. It hosts countless radical Islamist events, many openly supportive of terror and jihad.
As yet more evidence that American campuses have become, in Abigail Thernstrom’s apt description, “islands of repression in a sea of freedom,” St. Louis University has demonstrated that that free speech on campuses begins and ends according to how well that speech conforms to existing political orthodoxies.
The College of William & Mary has fully reformed its campus speech policies to ensure that students and faculty may freely exercise their right to freedom of expression at our nation’s second-oldest university.
Conservative activist David Horowitz will not be speaking at St. Louis University this month after school officials raised objections about the title and content of his speech, “Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights.”
Conservative activist David Horowitz has been asked not to present a speech titled “Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights” at St. Louis University.
The College Republicans at Saint Louis University say school officials blocked their efforts to have David Horowitz speak on campus during October. The university says it did not ban his talk but wanted to make sure his views on Islam and terrorism were balanced with other views.
Author and activist David Horowitz was invited to speak at Saint Louis University by the SLU College Republicans and Young America’s Foundation on Oct. 13. SLU officials, however, had problems with the subject matter of Horowitz’s proposed speech, entitled “An Evening with David Horowitz: Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights.”
Today’s Inside Higher Ed covers Saint Louis University’s decision to block David Horowitz from delivering an address called “Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights.” Apparently, the university believed the program as planned was “attacking another faith” and could cause “derision” on campus (whatever that means).
In a 3-part series of blog posts, liberal academic Stanley Fish stresses the difference between education and indoctrination in university classrooms, and advocates for the former.
David Horowitz and I rarely agree on anything. But we are in complete harmony on one point: it’s absolutely wrong for St. Louis University (SLU) officials to ban him from speaking on campus.
