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What Every Student Should Know Before Starting College
July 31, 2012 / Free Speech
FIRE’s Essay Contest will award $20,000 in scholarships to high school juniors and seniors this fall! Visit www.thefire.org/contest to enter. Deadline Nov. 25, 2012. Did you know that some colleges and universities restrict student speech rights? Don’t be surprised by campus censorship when you get to college — know before you go! Visit www.thefire.org to learn more. For more information on the cases and codes included in the video, visit thefire.org/article/14730.html. Produced by Ted Balaker. Music by Audionautix.com.
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Intro to FIRE’s Guide to Free Speech on Campus
July 19, 2012 / Free Speech
First published in 2005, FIRE’s Guide to Free Speech on Campus has been distributed to more than 138,000 students, faculty members, alumni, administrators, and citizens across the country as a tool to fight censorship on campus. The new second edition of the Guide has been fully updated for today’s students, paying special attention to student expression in the Facebook era and providing readers with fresh examples from FIRE’s case archives, important updates from state and federal case law, and incisive [...]
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12 Terrible Colleges for Free Speech – 2012
March 27, 2012 / Free Speech
FIRE has named America’s Top 12 worst colleges for free speech in the Huffington Post. Is your college one of them? Watch and find out, and visit www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-lukianoff/the-12-worst-schools-for-_b_1382… to learn more! Music by audionautix.com.
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Don’t Mess with Firefly! How SciFi Fans Made a Campus Safe for Free Speech (feat. Neil Gaiman)
December 24, 2011 / Free Speech
Get a poster for this film! fir.ee/SnGZAQ This award-winning video, which features an interview with legendary author Neil Gaiman, is a lighthearted look at how the University of Wisconsin–Stout backed down from its censorship of Professor James Miller’s posters, one featuring a quote from the science fiction show Firefly, and the other condemning fascism. Stout stood by its actions until FIRE’s advocacy campaign on Miller’s behalf inspired Gaiman, along with Firefly actors Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin, to take to [...]
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Silencing U: Five Outrageous Cases of Campus Censorship
September 19, 2011 / Free Speech
Since our founding in 1999, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has fought to defend the First Amendment on campus and protect students and faculty members whose freedom of expression is in jeopardy. The following video reviews five of the worst cases in our history, and provides a glimpse at the various threats to freedom on campus and the means that FIRE uses to combat them. A special thanks to Mr. Lawrence Post for making this video possible. [...]
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Free Speech is Under Attack
May 26, 2011 / Free Speech
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How Washington State Censored a Student Musical
February 8, 2011 / Free Speech
In a new video from the 2010 Campus Freedom Network (CFN) Conference (thecfn.org/cfn-conferences/2010-conference), former Washington State University (WSU) student Chris Lee discusses how administrators at WSU subsidized a group of protesters to disrupt his satirical play, ‘Passion of the Musical.’
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Michele Kerr – Campus Freedom Network Conference 2010
January 27, 2011 / Freedom of Conscience
Stanford alumna and teacher Michele Kerr describes how Stanford University’s Teacher Education Program (STEP) tried to oust her for her views at the 2010 CFN Conference.
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Scootergate!
January 21, 2011 / Free Speech
On August 17, 2010, University of Georgia graduate student Jacob Lovell e-mailed a complaint to UGA Parking Services concerning limited scooter parking. Although Parking Services specifically asks students for both “negative & positive” comments, Lovell spent nearly a month under the threat of punishment after submitting his complaint.
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FIRE and You: Together Changing Campus Culture
December 6, 2010 / Due Process, Free Speech, Freedom of Conscience, Religious Liberty
With the support of our committed and principled donors, FIRE is making huge strides towards changing the campus culture from one of repression to one of liberty. Please join us in this fight by making a contribution today.
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