The recent firestorm over Larry Summers’ remarks regarding gender and science has caused me to recall a free speech issue from my days as a Harvard undergraduate.
And let's not forget about our recent case at the University of New Hampshire, where a student was expelled from the dorm for joking that freshman girls could lose weight by taking the stairs.
The University of California at Santa Barbara has abandoned an attempt to force the owner of a website called The Dark Side of UCSB from using the letters “UCSB” in his web address.
A Florida community college says it will no longer bar a Christian student group from showing the film The Passion of the Christ and is dropping its unwritten ban on R-rated movies.
One of the difficulties in persuading angry and indignant people to cease their demands for censorship is that you are frequently countering their concrete grievance with a seemingly abstract hypothetical argument.
The University of California, Santa Barbara has abandoned an attempt to force the owner of a website called The Dark Side of UCSB from using the letters "UCSB" in his web address.
